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Originally Posted by Machiavelli
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.
For years? No we didn't.
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).
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I'll give you "it wasn't for years", but it was a pretty splashy example of a veteran D getting on a group of forwards for not doing their job.
And I'll beg to disagree on Iginla in his own zone. I coach kids, Iginla is one of my favourite coaching points of what not to do in your own zone. I would guess Keenan, Sutter, Sutter and Hartley might agree more with my view, but they're smarter than me and didn't post anything anti-Iginla on the internet!