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Originally Posted by Five-hole
Whether or not he meant to, and I personally think he didn't mean to, he screwed the team.
He agreed to a trade and then backed out out of self-interest. I think it's fine to question someone's integrity who does that. You and I might come to different conclusions whether that has any effect on his integrity, and how much. You rightly point out that he has earned a lot of respect for other things he has done. For some people, that trumps the trade thing. For others, it doesn't.
I don't think you have to be so upset with people who think differently than you. It's not "asinine". It's coming to a different conclusion based on the same evidence. Reasonable people can reasonably disagree. Try it some time.
(I don't know what "waived his middle finger at the team" means exactly, particularly (but maybe it's a double entendre in this context) as it should be "waved", but whatever.)
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Sorry but when you resort to tossing out "
If someone has integrity" + "they obviously over judged his character" + "Iginla basically waved his middle finger at the franchise on his way out." - in the same post - I think it deserves some ire and is proportionately labeled as being a load of crap.
The bottom line is the team was in shambles and told him they didn't want him back. He was at a point in life where he was going to have to leave the only NHL team he'd ever known and uproot his family and was given a short window to make an important decision.
No one knows the series of events, the timing, what was said and when with regard to the day he was traded. We do know the management at that time made a series of puzzling blunders so it's really difficult to suggest what exactly was agreed to and when. That's the problem here. While you have worded your take in a levelheaded manner, you're still making a lot of assumptions about things we will never have the full details on.
You can suggest Iggy put his own best interests first and be angry about it (although I think that's lacking context). But to suggest he definitively screwed anyone over, lacks integrity or gave the team the middle finger is skewed and over dramatic. It's putting a massive spin on it to suit a narrative a few people here have created without knowing the facts.