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Iginla may be gone from the Flames' dressing room but his impact still is felt. After he served as team captain for nine years, many lessons, much like the torch, has been passed to Giordano.

"What I took from [Iginla] was the way he treated people and the respect he showed for everyone, really," he said. "Me coming in here from my first year to playing with him last year, he treats you with a lot of respect, he's very kind and you can learn a lot from a guy like that in how he treats other people."

It didn't matter who you were, Baertschi said, the respect from Iginla was there.

"It's so hard to describe," he said. "Out of nowhere you just get called up from juniors and then you come in here and you sit right beside him. That was one of the highlights of my career, maybe the biggest highlight for me. I've got so much respect for him, and being around him I was always a little nervous. I didn't know what to do. Is he going to get mad at me?

"Then I realized he was just a normal guy and he treats everybody well. He'd be the guy who opens up the door for you. He's just a really humble guy."

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