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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It's so easy to dismiss what I am saying by saying I hate Iginla. Yeah, the guy who owns two different Iginla jerseys separated by 6 years is the guy with an irrational hatred for him. Absurd.
Address the points I made or don't bother responding. Strawman like I believe Iginla caused the decline of the avs or that I need psychiatric help need not apply.
The multi-stanley cup winning coach as a coach and the Stanley cup winning and former multi time nhl captain both said publicly, to the media, that Iginla was a difficult player to coach. His split with Brent Sutter was very public at the time. Darryl Sutter was blunt as hell when he answered the question of why trade for Steve stairs, "veteran leadership."
Our own JiriHrdina even confirmed for us that Iginla hanging out at the opposition blue line was not the instructions given by the coaching staff.
Iginla was enigmatic. in his prime there was no better, but there were also problems with coachability on occasion that detracted from the team which were magnified by his Captain status. That's the entirety of the argument.
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People have addressed the points you made, and you just stopped responding.
The problem isn't having a simple opinion that he declined toward the end of his tenure or was hard to coach. It's slagging him absolutely every time he's brought up, ad nauseam.
How's about you start with finding this quote where Sutter said he's hard to coach and include the context? Continuing to mention it like it's some kind of trump card for your slanted bias is getting pretty tiresome. You're taking one quote, with none of the context in which it was made, and acting like it validates your entire twisted narrative.
You have no idea how Iginla was in the room, yet you take a couple random quotes from a decade + tenure and extrapolate them into him having been a leading factor in the team's demise. You drop comments about it all the time. It's asinine.
Then you go on and try to paint everyone here as having pitch forks when you very much
did go so far as to (laughably) insinuate he was the cause of Colorado's downfall upon his signing.
At some point, you need to take a look in the mirror and come to grip with the fact that it's not everyone here jumping on you for no reason when it comes to this topic. It's because you're completely off kilter about it like you have some kind of ax to grind.