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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
I'm not sure what games you watched, but Iginla cherry picking and flying the zone early was one of the staples of Flames hockey for years, post-D.Sutter. He was not a good two way player and was never on the same page with the coaches.
He wanted to score goals and that came above all else.
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This is patently false. Not sure why people are saying this now and hardly anyone was saying it at the time.
Iginla wasn't a Selke finalist but he definitely wasn't as bad as people are making him out to be and for sure not worse than many other 50 goal scorers.