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Originally Posted by moon
Also what a team get us a guy who was top ten in play-off scoring and helped his team win two play-off series, pretty sure plenty if teams could use that.
Malkin, Crosby and Lrtamg were all garbage in the Bruins series but doubt teams wouldn't line up around the block, Chicago La Boston included, for a chance to get them.
Teams aren't dumb enough to make assessments about a guy based on one series where the whole team including coaching staff were awful.
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First off, Iginla is not top ten in playoff scoring. He's currently tied with 6 other players for 10th in points total, but loses out on number of games played and will be definitely out of it when playoffs are over.
Other players, such as Neal, may have had horrible series, possibly worse than Iginla, but their's situations are different. Iginla has been playing like this for a couple of years and the question mark was whether he can or can not return to his beast mode with elite linemates (particularly that bloody #1 center) and when he has a real chance to win the Cup. There was also a big question on whether Iginla will or will net change his game when he's no longer The Man on the team.
Guys like Neal and Letang play in playoffs every year and everyone knows what to expect from them. For Iginla it was his first playoffs in 4 years and first playoffs on an elite team in his life.