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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I equate being effective with helping teams win games, not only offensive production.
Aside from 2004, being traded to a contender and signing with another, his team's have never made noise when it mattered in the playoffs. 30 goals is nice but 25 and a playoff series win is better.
Not exactly shocking the avs haven't seen the post season since he arrived.
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Yeah, the Avs bringing in a 37 year old winger is the reason why they haven't made the playoffs. Despite their core of Duchene, Landeskog, Barrie, Jonhson, Varlamov, and McKinnon, they expect Iginla to lead them to a cup. The same was true of the Penguins and Bruins?
But let's fact-check your narrative, shall we:
- Pittsburgh (2012/13) - Went to ECF, lost to Bruins
- Iginla is 4th in points for playoff points on his team
- Pittsburgh did not go as deep in the playoffs until 2015-16 season, when they won the Stanley Cup
- Boston (2013/14) - Loses to Montreal in the second round
- Iginla is 3rd in points for both the regular season and playoffs for his team
- Boston doesn't qualify for the playoffs following Iginla's tenure
- Avalanche doesn't qualify for the playoffs in the past 3 out of 4 seasons before Iginla signs, and doesn't qualify for the 2 (probably 3) after
- Iginla is 1st in team points (14/15 season)
- Iginla is 6th in team points (15/16 season)
- Iginla is currently 12th in team points
At no point in his career after the Flames are teams expecting Iginla to lead them to a cup. Yet up until the last two seasons did he perform admirably. Let's not blame Crosby, Malkin, Krejci, or Bergeron, ler's blame the new guy in his late 30's for not putting his team on his back, right?
