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Originally Posted by smiggy77
Wait...so based on your statements about Hamilton being a flop and just riding a hot streak, are you saying Iggy is a flop and his whole career was a bunch of hot streaks?
Like, the same Iggy who will likely be a hall of famer...who put up over 600 goals and over 1200 points in his flop career?
...Seriously? Or am I missing something...
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Iggy was allowed through much ice time and being an ironman of sorts to compile a huge amount of stats. Not many players are allowed to play 20 plus minutes a game at forward when they are struggling. Iggy was. He was on 1st PP, rarely on PK, on the ice when the opponents net was empty. Iggy always had his pick on basically who he played with, who was rolling and who wasn't. Yes, some of the stats are more due to attrition than pure skill. He struggled basically every year at the start of the year, that had no effect on his ice time or what line he played on. They would dismantle a successful line to get Iggy going at times. The Flames playoff success, and yes I include the one where we went to the Stanley, is a direct tribute to Iggy. We often didn't make the playoffs and were a cap team. I always questioned his "golly gee" interviews, I would have liked it if he hated losing a bit more being a captain on an underachieving team.