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Originally Posted by Cole436
I love Iginla, just like probably 99% of all Flames fans. Easily my favourite player ever, the greatest Flame and the best hockey player that ever laced up for this franchise. But in saying that, there's been too much smoke over the years for me to ignore that comment. I think as a hockey player, a member of our community, and a person his legacy is pretty well cemented.
But in terms of the rumblings of dissent in the locker room over the years, whether it was the Iginla faction vs. the Regher faction during the prime years of that team, the impact of his very noticeable inconsistent two way play as he got older, to even the fact that only Cammy and Tanguay showed up to his trade press conference, it makes me think there's probably truth in those stories. Even all these years later that last point still bugs me. If Yzerman or Sakic ever got traded, I can't imagine that press conference wouldn't be full of their teammates. I think that says something of how the players were feeling at that point.
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Unless it was ####ing Eric Francis who said it, then disregard all the above.
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This is false. Leadership was never the issue. Some of the other heart and soul players were not fans of how the team was constructed, and felt Iggy maybe had a larger influence on that aspect than a player should. From the horses mouth. Lets move on and stop falsely dragging Iggy through the mud.