always tough to venture into a debate with the Iginla crowd.
clearly a great player, and a monster captain at the start when he took over from Conroy and lead the Flames to the cup in 2004. Impossible to argue that.
He still is top 3 for me all time, but he loses that 1 spot because of his last 5 years. We will never know what is what behind the scenes but from former players, current players, odd quotes that seem to be saying something without saying something ... you get the impression that he let things get away on him. Clicks formed, high priced vets got to take the easy way out, and that follow me boys mentality waned.
Like I said none of that is concrete but there's quite a bit of smoke ... moves him from one in my mind.
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