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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
I'm a little surprised by the news. Earlier this afternoon I was listening to HNiC on SXM. They stated that not a word has been mentioned about Igina and that most teams wouldn't want anything to do with him. I'm paraphrasing here but the gist of it was "he is really tough to coach" "former coaches resent him" "Flames dressing room was a mess, or, lots of drama in Flames dressing room". I was surprised cause I have never heard journalists talk this way about him before.
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I think people in Calgary started getting this bad feeling that maybe our best guy was the problem. I remember thinking a few years ago that we changed coaches, gms, all the core players and the only constant was Iginla.
I know he is suspposed to be a great guy, and I believe he is in general, but it seems he might be hard to coach and he might have been part of the 'problem' in the past years when Calgary was supposed to be a good team. Seems counter intuitive since he was always the best player and was one of those unsettling thoughts that you push away and hope isn't true.
To be honest i thought it would be much more painful to have him go.