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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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.
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Blah Blah Blah, Iginla's Legacy, Blah Blah Blah.
None of that has anything to do with the protocol you follow when dealing a player with a NTC/NMC. You're illustrating the folly of the organization right here. Why follow contracts at all? Why not just have a verbal agreement for a pay structure. Surely, if the roles were reversed, Iginla would accept a handshake agreement in lieu of a contract for services rendered, right?
Is this a family loan or a business here?
Good managers make the right decisions, not the easy ones.
How much do we care right now as Iginla plays for the Bruins,
anyway, with a fixture of the proposed deal playing with him and well while the spare parts Calgary received are up in the air? I guess we have one final bend-over to Iginla and his legacy to console ourselves with as the team is near the basement of the league? What is the tangible benefit from not having followed the trade protocol, an Iginla post game victory lap?
What is this, the Calgary Iginlas? Based on some of the booing and jeers from the previous game, and some of the posts in this thread like yours, it's easy to see why the organization has been so inept and rudderless for so long.
There is a legal framework within which general managers, agents and players maneuver. Calgary didn't follow it and surprise, surprise, were burned substantially because of it, to the point where the president of the organization offered his own regret about the decision.