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Originally Posted by kyuss275
How many UFA veteran players were even remotley as good as Iggy a couple of seasons ago or at least had the type of hype that Iggy would get?
Even if we had traded him last summer he would have brought a lot more back than what he got at the deadline. Iggy had a bad year by his standards last year, and there was a lot of talk that he had lost a step. Iggy's stock dropped big time last year.
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I agree. The fact that Iginla hasn't played in the playoffs the past 3 years might actually have helped his stock. While teams were probably worried that Iginla was aging, there was still the belief that Iginla was still a capable goalscorer and on a contender playing alongside a playmaker, Iginla would be able to step it up, especially in the playoffs. I don't know about you, but I was fully expecting Iginla to play turn it on in the playoffs and deliver a great performance.