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Originally Posted by habernac
How the #### is this poll slightly in favour of bringing him back? He can't skate in today's game. He cannot keep up, period. The spirit is willing and the legs are done.
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Personally I'm pleasantly surprised it isn't a lopsided 'yes'. People tend to be suckers for nostalgia.
I don't really get this kind of nostalgia though. For me, one of the things I like least in sports is watching washed out former stars. It just makes me sad to see how much of their greatness is gone. Yeah if we could get the good Iggy back that would be awesome, but to me that seems completely unrealistic. He has not been a good player for a while, regardless of when exactly did he stop being a good player.
Iggy is not putting up points anymore. He's too slow to bring energy, he doesn't play that physical and he's pretty bad at playing defense. I don't want to see Iggy be useless, especially not as a Flame. I have good memories of Iggy playing here, and I'd like to keep it that way.
(And that's just on top of that cap hit, the media circus and the possibility that we'd actually give up resources for a bad player.)