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Originally Posted by tkflames
That's where you and I differ.
I loved Iggy when he was here and will never forget what he did for the Flames let alone the city in his chartiable work. However, the team I remember when he left had a country club atmosphere with no pride. Iggy and Tanguay spent most of their time playing defense by circling the offensive blue line.
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Sorry, keep reading this, its not true, or if it is it doesn't rest on the shoulders of Iginla. That team simply wasn't good enough to go where fans wanted it to. The team has way better centre depth now than it ever did during Iginla's career (all due respect to guys like Conroy and Langkow).
There were many other reasons those Flames teams failed to deliver and not much of it was Iginla's fault.
I don't know how anyone could have watched Iginla's Flames career and seen anything other than a guy who did everything he possibly could to help the team, whether it was scoring, fighting, taking the media pressure on his shoulders. The guy was the best captain in the team's history. This narrative that he was some type of cherry picker who just wanted to pad his own stats -- utter nonsense.