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Originally Posted by minnow
I remember something about his going rate would have been $10mill last contract, I'd call that a hometown discount. I do not agree that the Flames organization went out of their way to find him top people to play with though. If they really did that they wouldn't have failed the way they did, would they? Are they really that inept, over all that time? Anyway, it's over, lets see what the future brings.
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That's what I recall too. Iginla was a truly top player in the league back then and could have had more money than he got from the Flames.
The very idea of the organization going out of it's way to find top players for Iginla to play with is a little silly. What way was the organization trying to go that finding good players for the team was "out of it's way". The organization was doing exactly what served it's own purpose in trying to get good players to play with Iginla. They just couldn't do it well enough to get a cup.
But to get back on topic, I hope to see Iggy crush the Bruins in this series. People saying that goaltending is going to be the difference probably missed the last Pens series where a better goalie than Rask was blown out by the Pens. If the Bruins are going to have a chance it's going to come through their checking game, not from their goalie.