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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Which ironically...is likely why most Flames fans didn't care that Iginla would miss the World Championships after he had become a high paid star player rather than accuse him of being selfish and not caring about his country.
IIRC, Niewendyk did do a lot of off ice stuff in the community. I remember him being pretty hurt about getting booed when he returned to Calgary for the first time because he felt he had done a lot of stuff in the community and that his quarrel was with ownership, not the fans. Didn't help that MacInnis and Gilmour had both essentially left the team over contracts before him, and at that point the fans were no longer too happy tending to blame players, and not ownership. Than add in that management completely mishandled getting decent assets for trading off any those guys eventually, save getting Iginla for Niewendyk, and Regehr for Fleury later on. Oddly enough deals that Al Coates made.
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He was honored with the King Clancey award for leadership and contributions to the Calgary community, both on and off the ice.
Some don't feel he was here long enough to be recognized as Forever a Flame but he was here just about the same length of time as Kipper was.