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I'm not blaming Iginla, but what I said isn't wrong. Building around Iginla prevented management and ownership from taking an honest audit of the state of this franchise. When I hear the Pens being a model franchise I think it's pathetic. They tanked and lucked into one generational player and another elite player.
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You did blame Jarome though. Or at last this looks alot like blame
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The reason Calgary is in a disastrous state is because we continued to cater to the guy and chase a dragon's tail to make him happy.
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But either way Iginla or not the team would not have gone into the full rebuild any sooner. No team would have. Teams don't rebuild until they are forced to, it is never a choice.