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Originally Posted by カナダ人です
Iginla is/was a great great player, but to compare him to Sakic, or - *shudder* - Bossy, is going a bit overboard.
And frankly I find the "player X had better team-mates" reasoning a tad disrespectful.
Just my 2cents. Like I said, Iginla is a great player and a sure fire hall-of-famer!
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Lol. I agree that Sakic is better, and I also agree that some have gone overboard in their comparisons, but to suggest that a casual discussion on the internet is disrespectful because of the suggestion that that "player X had better teammates" is beyond ridiculous. Especially when it's completely valid.
It's the weirdest thing in these comparisons, you always find people that just simply do not want to entertain the idea that certain players, while still being amazing players, did have help in their career accomplishments.
You remove Yzerman or Sakic from the Av's and Wings when they were winning cups and place them on the young gun Flames and see if they're still "leading teams to cups because they're amazing leaders"? **** no, they'd be just like Iginla; Superstar players, and great leaders who play on a crappy team.
..and I'm not suggesting they aren't better than Iginla, just that playing on a star studded team like the Wings or Av's was absolutely a factor in those players accomplishments. And it's the comments like "Sakic and Yzerman are true leaders and that's why they have Stanley cups, while Iginla wasn't on that level because he didn't lead a team to a cup" that's such BS, imo.