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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
A team with Iginla coming back would be... insane and awesome. I don't know how else to describe it.
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I love Iginla, but he would quickly turn into a whipping boy on this team. He can't keep up like he used to. He doesn't play physical like he used to. He just has taken a number of steps down.
I think he would simply become a whipping boy on these forums in short order:
1) Doesn't keep up, backcheck or score at least 20+ goals - "He is a bum!"
2) More importantly, imagine this: Team is not playing well, as many teams (even championship years) go through: "Must be Iginla. He is wrecking the chemistry. Country club is back. Must have fought Gio in the dressing room."
I love Iginla, and I also for a time wished for him to return for that storybook ending, but now I just think it should just be that one day retirement jersey thing, and every fan in the dome will be cheering loudly for it. Fans started openly hoping the Flames would trade him away. I don't want to see the Fans openly hoping he retires because he is so washed up. I would hate to see him end up with that kind of a memory.