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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I will say bumping him to the 2nd powerplay unit is silly as powerplay is where he is most effective and the Penguins 1st unit was not very good yesterday. With him on the powerplay teams can't focus on his one-timer like they could in Calgary as it leaves Malkin open. Blysma isn't doing a great job of utilizing Iginla but it could be a case of him knowing his job may be on the line and wanting to go down with his own guys. Not sure but I don't think Iginla is being used properly.
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It would be one thing if the powerplay had looked bad with Iginla and they thought they needed to change it up, but the powerplay was as dangerous as any that I've seen in years when Iginla was on it and it went straight into the crapper when they took him off the first unit. There's no excuse to not have him out there.
As for the rest of his game, Iginla didn't look good last night after the first period, but you could say that about every forward on the Penguins and the majority of the forwards on the Bruins. Krejci and Rask may have been the only 2 players on the ice who had an above average game. If either team plays like they did last night and the other team plays to their potential, this series would be a blowout, but I except both teams to step it up and this to be a real battle.