[Gaskal]

I think all this plethora of emotional resentment or nostalgia is really clouding up the picture. It's unnecessary and it has little to do with any future dealings between the Flames organization and Jarome. Jarome did this, Jarome did that...but it's all in the past.

Let's say for the sake of argument that Treliving does have a talk with Iginla and word gets out.

People can gush all they want about the idea of "Omg Iggy is coming home" and "lets get him a Cup" and blah blah blah with starry eyes (or complaining etc), but cancelling out all that emotion stuff, Iginla is still looking out for himself at the end of the day.

Do you think if they happen to sit down that Treliving will go "Remember that time when the Flames almost traded you to Boston"? Of course not. There would be zero emotional influence in the dealings from previous experiences. Arrangements between the two would be practically strangers meeting. The management and coaching has undergone a pretty massive turnover from before. New GM Treliving, Burke is on top, his old friends Conroy and Gelinas are AGM and PP/PK coach respectively. The players themselves have undergone a massive turnover too, it's a completely new team now and it's Giordano's team.

As I've pointed out before, the deal would have to make sense to both sides. Fortunately, there happens to be some mutual benefits involved if the cards fall right.

Mutual business positives from coming back to Calgary after his Avs gig:

-Term he wants is fairly short (Treliving doesn't want to commit a lot of term to vets)
-Money he wants will be north of $5M though (Treliving can offer that reasonably, with a lot of vet salary off the books for 2017-18)
-Wants to be in a top 6 role (Treliving might be looking for a top 6 RW replacement for Hudler that can still score but is ok with a short-ish term)
-Wants good linemates so that he has nice stats (Replacing Hudler on Johnny & Mony's line)

So the possibility is there to have something that works for both Flames organization and Iginla from a purely business perspective in 2 years. I don't think he'll be expecting more than 2 years of term at his age on his next contract. It could work.

If Treliving and Iggy are able to hammer out a deal that both like, that's when it's safe to let all the nostalgic feel-good stuff come back.