For Calgary, Cerevenka, Hudler, Tanguay, Cammalieri, Glencross (depending on whether he is trying that night or not), Baertschi are all worse at the things mentioned.
For Pitssburgh during the time Iginla was there Neal, Malkin and Kunitz certainly standout as worse. Even Crosby wasn't doing much of that in the play-offs like he normally does.
Iginla has played on teams that as a whole did not buy into the all round game lately. Possibly his fault but hard to blame him for not doing everything on a Pittsburgh in which it seemed they weren't asked to and he was far from the biggest culprit.
Boston wanted Iginla a couple of months ago and no reason to believe that they wouldn't want him now after a decent showing in Pittsburgh. Sutter had no issue with getting Iginla to play a well rounded game and Lombardi has wanted him for awhile.
I know the cool thing is to crap on Iginla and talk about how people "knew he was done 3 years ago" but the fact is the guy had a very good season, was one of the top scorers in the play-offs, played much better than most give him credit for and would be a great fit in the top 6 in LA or Bos, or pretty much any contending team in the league.
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