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Ceremony was great, and clearly happy to have been there in person.

Maher was on point and didn’t ramble. Conroy with the story we’ve heard a few times these past months, the new twist was what he said to the Wings bench after the Hatcher fight game 2 after the Wings were up and winning that game....”you guys are done”. And the captaincy handoff story from Controy, mainly driven because Doan got it in Phoenix.

Iginla very good too, prepared and direct and avoided cliche as much as possible in his words.

Things I found a bit odd. Yes, Dingman, doesn’t look like a big history here, played part of 3 seasons here, then to Colorado in Fleury trade and onto Tampa. Lots of other candidates from 1996 to 2002, what about the guy he was traded with, Millen? Though even guys like Simpson. No Kiprusoff, that would’ve taken away from Iginla. My guess is the Flames do a 2004 reunion in 5 years and that is when he comes back. But Langkow, Tanguay?

Iginla almost cracked a couple times when talking about team, but otherwise no emotion.
While the Flames didn’t give him so big materialistic gift, just the donation to kidspsort in his behalf, pumping up some local artist doing a 3hr art piece got more time and significance then deserved,IMO.

Thought there would be some video comments either during the ceremony or maybe scattered through the game from others around the league.

Obviously ran over and late by probably 10 mins, and seemed to be a rushed finish or something got botched. Watching the banner go up, and then they headed back towards the seats. Iginla turned right and kept walking while his family wasn’t sure where to go. Iginla didn’t stop, kept walking, and a brief pause before leaving the ice. Not quite sure that’s how the ceremony was supposed to wrap up, as I said it seemed a bit unorganized.

But a great video from Lanny, a proper send off, and all in all a class act from the Flames without being too drawn out or laborious, as some of these tend to be..