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Originally Posted by Bingo
I don't like to see young players scratched in a rebuilding season, I get that.
But if this is part of that culture change where we try and avoid raising a new generation of skill players that aren't all that hard to play against then I'm all for it.
Iginla was never good in his own zone, and I think as a captain that just can't happen or people will follow the bad habits.
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He was never a Pavel Datsyuk as far as two-way play, but Iginla was for the most part just fine in his own zone.
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We heard of Regehr vs Tanguay/Iginla arguments in the room etc for years.
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For years? No we didn't.
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You can't win that way.
If a scratch here or there now develops complete hockey players than sign me up. if it creates sulking and trade demands then likely we're better off without them anyway.
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Maybe that makes sense for the Baertschi scratch, but Hartley complained about Backlund's play in the offensive zone (which I didn't really see).