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Originally Posted by New Era
The guy wasn't even there for two days before he was telling reporters that the Penguins were the model team and had such a winning atmosphere and great tradition. I guess Iggy forgot he was largely responsible for the development of the attitude and atmosphere in the dressing room. Making such comments in such a short period of time is a direct shot at the Flames organization. It would be like spending two days in a new city and then proclaiming it to be the best city in the world. How the hell would you know one way or the other when you have such limited experience in that city? How the hell would Iginla know anything about how the Penguins were run with less than two days of experience with the team?
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Saying nice things about the Pens doesn't mean he feels the opposite of about his experience with the Flames.
he didn't say it is nice to finally play for a model organization, didn't say or imply that it was different in Calgary and never in fact mentioned, implied or said anything that would lead anyone to believe that what he was saying had anything at all to do with Calgary.
And two days is plenty of time to see how a team is run especially when teams aren't run in secret so he already would know about the success the team has had, the quality players the team has brought in and quality of the coaching staff and management. He doesn't have spend 2 years in Pittsburgh to know that guys like Crosby, Letang, Malkin, Shero and Bylsma are all top level guys and contribute to a class organization.
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Iginla is not at fault for the short comings of management, but there is more than enough problems to laid at his feet when it comes to the culture of the hockey club and how it developed over the past decade. He shouldn't be out there shooting his mouth off about how great it is on another team when he was the leader of the club he just left and where things were obviously not so prime. I see Iginla's comments no different than those of a C-level employee leaving a company then saying how poor the culture of the enterprise was. He was in a position of leadership and establishing cultural norms. Don't bitch about it once you leave when you were in a position to establish those norms.
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Sure some bitter fans who are shortsighted might put plenty of blame at Iginla's feet but he never once made them make poor trades, never forced them to not rebuild, never once forced them to make garbage FA signings, didn't force them to misjudge the team and think it was close. That is all 100% managements fault.
He should definitely be saying what he feels about his new team and not hiding anything/lying about anything because the Flames are in a crap situation. Again he never once said anything about the team so your garbage C-level emplyoee analogy makes no sense at all.
Where did he bitch about anything when leaving?