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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The Dallas Stars traded their Captain and longest tenured player Brendan Morrow last deadline...
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Brendan Morrow and his fixture in the landscape of Dallas is not even remotely comparable to the legacy that Iginla forged in Calgary. In the first place, one is a good bet to be a first-ballot hall-of-famer, while the other will never receive such consideration for entry as a player in his lifetime. In the second place, the status of each figure relative to the market is outrageously out of balance. Iginla the superstar established himself in a small market in which NHL hockey has no equal; Morrow was but one of a number of memorable players on a Dallas professional sports team that shares a market
six times the size with other sports giants, the Dallas Cowboys, the Mavericks, and the Texas Rangers.
If this is really the best modern comparable that you can construct, then I rest my case.