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Originally Posted by 1stLand
If we trade for Iginla, Brad Treliving will have to go out and find a "1st Line Center" for Iginla to play with.
How come with the group of forwards we have right now, no one in the Media, or in the Public Forums mentions anything about the Flames lacking a #1 Center?
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Because the team is expected to finish bottom 5 so they don't need a number 1 guy right now because they have time to see if Monahan or Bennett develop into one. If they did fluke into the play-offs the talk of a lack of an elite center would be mentioned especially when guys like Getzlaf are sweeping them out of the play-offs.
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The Common Re-Occurring theme when Iginla was around was that he wasn't playing great because / and or he would have got more points if he had a 1st Line Center.
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The common theme when Iginla was around was that he was playing great enough to make All-Star teams, win awards, make team Canada's etc.
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The Flames delayed the re-build by many years by recycling aging vets through signing and trades in hopes they could pro-long Iginla's career.
The writing was on the wall after the Chicago Playoff Series that the team was on the decline, but the management delayed rebuilding just to appease the fan-boys of Iginla.
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That is on management not Iginla. Seems odd to blame a guy for being so great that he alone is able to make the team into a contender and give people hope the team can win.
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I am still a bit sour that Iginla veto'd a trade we had in place with Boston that would have netted us a greater return than what we got from Pittsburgh - then turned around and signed with Boston the next year.
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Why not be bitter at the people that gave him that right, or the guy who didn't check with him before negotiating? Seems odd to be bitter towards a guy who did what he was 100% entitled to do.
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People may be critical of my criticism of Iginla because he is the 'sacred cow' of the franchise. But ultimately I am a Flames Fan first and foremost. My only concern is seeing the team do well and get in the playoffs. Not to cheer for a childhood idol.
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People are critical because you take things out of context and warp them into being Iginla's fault. You focus on negative things that were a tiny role in the team and make them out to be the major issues. You misrepresent the Iginla era to always make him out to be the bad guy and negative force.