He is the one player I would vehemently argue with my dad about...
My dad would always argue he was overrated and the team shouldn’t be built around a winger.
I agreed with the latter part but will never forget how dominant Iggy was in his prime. He was the best player in the NHL for at least a few seasons before the end of the dead puck era.
The key was we needed a C to build a 1st line.
He never really had a true 1st line center to play with in his career.
Can you imagine we had traded Phaneuf for Carter..
Tanguay-Carter-Iginla
He will always be one of my favourite players of all time, if not the clear cut favourite.
2002 Olympics were so epic as it had a tonne of my favourite players on it, Iggy, Sakic, Mario, Fleury, Nieuwendyk, MacInnis, Kariya, Shanahan, Foote, Niedermayer etc.
What a team.
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