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Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan
Anyone else notice when King said him and Sutter were hanging out on King's deck? I wonder if they have mended fences.
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There was never an issue between those guys, during or after Sutter’s tenure. Sutter’s detractor was higher up the chain, and when a slick talking weasel then got in the mix on the side of that guy, Sutter didn’t have a chance and King didn’t have the power to overrule either.
Expected nothing less from Iginla. Pure class all the way today,just as he played and carried himself on and off the ice. Best Flame of all time, not even close. Size, speed, skill, finesse,hard as a rock.
Hopefully a jersey retirement announcement soon.
Obscure Iginla moments of mine:
On one of the many contentious trips to Edmonton myself and buddies took, in early 2000s,
Edit feb 7 2003
https://www.hockey-reference.com/box...302070EDM.html
him with a hat trick to seal a win was my happiest moment as a Flames fan at the time for a live out of town game, and worth the usual body fluids that got directed at Flames fans directions at Skyreach/Rectal.
Then also the year he got 51, and his last goal that year was the empty netter to officially eliminate the Oilers from the playoffs the last game of the year, which was another great moment.
Saw him first in person in fall of 1996. Him and Gagner and Tabaracci came into the Fox on 11th downtown a few Saturdays over a few month period. Women flocked to him, obviously.