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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
I think Iginla was just as desperate to win here as the team was to win for him.
Sports doesn't always provide the storybook endings though - and that's what makes it great.
I think it was Brunt on the Fan saying the other day that it really is too bad they didn't win it in 2004 because if they had - #12 would have likely retired here with nothing left to complete on his resume.
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And this situation is why you pay your managers the big bucks and why fans buy tickets to the games. Fans are allowed to believe in the storybook ending, are encouraged. But your management has to manage which means you make the right decisions not the popular ones.
The window had slammed shut on Iginla winning the Cup in Calgary by the time we were routed by Chicago. There was no way that any sane manager could have said, "you know what, we're only a piece short of what Chicago has to beat them to come out of the Western Conference."
Should we have started the rebuild then? Probably we should have been seeding the idea of trading Iginla (which most of the national press was doing for us anyway)