Brent Sutter was a poor coach but also had a crap roster to work with. The only times in his tenure with the Flames that they were remotely entertaining was the first 15-20 games in his first season (team was scoring at an unsustainable rate not playing anything close to a lockdown style of play), and briefly in his second season when they scored a ton off the rush and Iginla finished north of 40 goals and 80pts.
The sad part for Iginla was the team was unable to have any player close to taking over the goal scoring on the team while he was here. Never should a 35 year old be the driving force of your offense. Remember when the closest thing to an Iginla heir was Rene Bourque?
If Iggy returns this season fans would expect the likes of Gaudreau, Monahan, Bennett, Backlund, Frolik, Brouwer, Versteeg, Tkachuk to provide more scoring than JI.
If the team makes the playoffs Iggy will be the type of player that the rest of the team wants to win for
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