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Originally Posted by Vinny01
The bolded point is where we will have to agree to disagree. Iggy was a beast in the 10/11 season and with his 43 goal performance and long term pedigree as a leader, scorer, fighter/power forward he would have been very attractive to the Kings.
I think the deal would have looked something like Iggy, Tangs, Glencross for Schenn, Simmonds, Tuebert, 1st, 2nd. Those are the pieces LA parted with for Richards and Penner from the deadline 2011 into the summer that year. Both Glennie and Tangs were having good solid years and were pending UFA's. Iggy was having a beast year and locked up for 2 more beyond. Schenn had yet to dominate the world juniors when this speculation was at it's peak and Simmonds was not the player he turned out to be in Philly.
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Your comments are fair enough. I acknowledge that Iginla had a high short term value (I agree he was a beast that season) but I contend that his long term value was lower due to his age and a decline from age 33 to 36 being predictable (you can read Kent Wilson and co.'s predictions for the 11/12 season for example) while his cap hit of course stays at 7M all the way to the end.
Richard's short term value was high and his long term value was very high, due to his age, contract and elite skill. I just don't see the decribed Flames package providing enough long term value to justify all the long term assets LA gives up in the Philly deal.