Thanks Bingo.
I had the game PVRed and I'm just watching it now. It's striking me that we'll never see the wicked one-timers from the top of the circles any more. We'll never rise out of the seats for some of the heroics that Iginla has given us literally hundreds of times.
We had the best player in the game for a few years. That's a really rare thing. It could quite possibly never happen to us again.
We got to watch in 2002 when he helped propel Canada to a gold medal when he was still a relative unknown and, on top of all the pride of winning the gold, we got to say, that guy is ours. He's a Flame.
The hockey world watched as Jarome Iginla led a ragtag group of nobodies all the way to game seven of the finals. He was our guy. There aren't many skaters who can take over a game and he did it more than a few times in those playoffs, and everybody got to wathc.
Then finally, in 2010, he was again in the spotlight and assisted on a goal that will live forever. He was our guy, in the hockey world's spotlight, probably for the last time.
We may never see that again.
Bye Jarome.
