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Originally Posted by kyuss275
You don't think last summer Iggy would have thought about Carolina? The summer before Washington? Philly would be up there also on most years.
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Since winning the Stanley Cup, Carolina has missed the playoffs six years out of seven. If Iginla wanted to go to a contender, they would be one of the last teams on his list.
Washington is at least a regular playoff team, but what makes you think they would want to spend $7 million a year on
another elite winger? If it's the summer of 2011 you're talking about, they already had Ovechkin with a cap hit of $9.5 million and Semin at 6.7. The Caps had no use for Iginla, unless they were crazy enough to trade Semin for him straight up — bearing in mind that Semin is 7 years younger.
It really is very rare, since the cap came in, for a star player with a big cap hit to be traded with multiple years left on his contract — at any time of year.