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Originally Posted by Tinordi
I was a huge Iginla fan.
Yet I became more and more convinced that he became a big problem with the team.
Call me a hater whatever.
Typing from my phone but there were bad signs that he had grown bigger than the team went above the coaches and created divisions in the locker room.
I think the best captain in the NHL stuff is mostly baseless based on what his actual teammates have said
Anyway the way in which he left was just the icing.
There is no way I want him back.
We haven't seen a flames team bust their ass like this and play for each other since early in the Iginla years.
It's what happens when a player gets bigger than the team. Just look at this thread. Fans care about one player more than the franchise. Hard for that not to matter.
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Fans care about people that contribute to the team, especially players that perform better than any other player to ever wear the jersey. Every franchise in sports celebrates its great players, not sure why Flames fans wouldn't celebrate Iginla.
I'm not sure what's so difficult to understand about a hockey team having to have many different pieces come together in order to succeed. Those of you acting like Iginla was the problem are ignoring
management, drafting, scouting, development, coaching -- all of which were flawed aspects of the organization when Iginla was around.
I'm not even arguing that Iginla should ever come back, but this revisionist history that Iginla was some type of team cancer is sickening, and disrespectful to the franchise if anything. Its like you people didn't watch 16 years of amazing hall of fame hockey from the guy and just want to focus on the last few years where the team floundered -- mostly due to the aspects I mentioned earlier.
Just because the Flames are on the right track now doesn't mean Iginla was the problem years ago. The guy gave his career to the organization and performed as one of the best players in the world for years on end. Slandering him -- by so called fans -- is simply shameful.