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Originally Posted by CSharp

It's funny how the Iggy haters are always complaining how hard it is to coach Iggy and how he doesn't buy into any coach's system - well frickin hell, look at two coaches now in the span of 4 years. Is the Flames any better besides that one blip in 2014 season? Look at Gio and Wideman, the latter is even worse and was benched by both Hartley and GG for extended periods of time. Do you think any team would trade for Wideman. The Avs put Iggy up for sale right now and I bet you more than half dozen teams will pick him up right now and that's including the Flames. The truth is, the Flames as a whole has always been a hard team to coach since 2004 no matter what because we expect the team to exceed and win the cup. It's a frickin team sport and yet Iggy carried the whole franchise on his back and half of the frickin fans are kicking him out of Calgary by the end of it all.

I also bring up Gio since he is one of 2 o 3 remaining Flames who were part of that Sutter Fail era. Most people praise him for good leadership, but what the hell does that mean when he looks good when he does score, but then he looks so awful a lot of the times when the opposition scores because he's defensively horrible? Why isn't Gio to blame for being hard to coach when he fails so much more miserably game after game for so long? So, I just don't understand where all this lovin and all these hatin really comes from. I'm really confused and I think it's all a bunch of garbage from someone trying to read between the lines and making it out to be something totally BS. If Iggy was truly that uncoachable, no other teams would've ever offered contracts to Iggy and he would've retired 5 years ago after he'd left the Flames.

He might not be fast and he's definitely not the slowest skater (cough: Wideman), but he'll go into the end boards with anyone and he'll go in front of the opposition goalie as a power forward does. You don't see Monahan doing that on a regular basis. Combine that with a shot that Wideman never uses on the point and you still have a pretty good utility forward.

If the Flames is a class act organization the way it's been since arriving in Calgary, they should try get Iggy back especially now that Oilers may start toying with the idea of finally getting Iggy. There's NO way he's going to the Oilers. Of course he's not going to fill that right wing power forward role with McDavid, but I'm sure they would love to get him just to piss all of us Flames fans off (minus less than half of you Iggy haters, that is).

I'd give all the credit Kipper carrying this team on his back to the 04 finals and subsequent years moreso than Iginla who always had a hard time understanding the concept of playing defence in your own zone.