The reason you go out and get veterans at the deadline is to take pressure off of young players who have not been through the meat grinder before. You want the veteran experience to rely upon when the youngsters are bent over puking from the pressure to perform.
Getting Iginla as a feel good story is not going to help those young players. Bringing back the chosen son, for one last run at a Stanley Cup, is upping the pressure. Imagine how those young guys are going to feel if they fail to get "Iggy" his cup? Also, there are very few players left on the team that have any affinity to Iginla. Giordano and Backlund are the only guys who played with Iginla for any significant period of time. Stajan and Wideman were in their first seasons as a Flames, and Brodie and Bouma were both in their first full time seasons as Flames. Most guys on this team know Iginla as the enemy. I don't see an emotional lift what so ever for this club. The fans may get a charge out of it, but I think it just puts more pressure on the hockey team. Pass.
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