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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
Being buddies with Iginla doesn't mean he was a good player to keep around. There was talk about him being pretty arrogant and I thought I read he demanded the trade. Gilbert was a half brained moron but at the time it seems to me that both should have been sent packing.
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Who cares if he was arrogant, wouldn't be the first NHL'er that needed to grow up in that regard, the kid had 65 points and after a year of injury problems was shipped off for absolutely nothing.
If you care to look it up on this very board I said at the time this was Buttons and Gilberts pink slips and they would probably never see the NHL again. Who's laughing? the even more arrogant coach who can't even get a job in any pro league anymore, A GM who works for TSN because he can't find any other work or the kid who put 40 million in the bank since.
Offensive talent is hard to come by, it should be groomed not ruined.