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More Iggy love

Jarome Iginla was asked if he was robbed.

Robbed of a Stanley Cup, or the Hart Trophy, which both slipped through his fingers by the narrowest of margins.

As odd as asking about the only two things that ever eluded one of the game’s greatest power forwards was, it generated the type of response that said as much about the man as his gaudy stats.

“No, it’s sports,” said Iginla, presumably flashing that world-class grin of his beneath the Hall of Fame mask provided.

“I wasn’t (robbed). With the Hart Trophy, I would have loved to have won it. It’s an opinion. When I saw how close it was, that I was tied (with winner Jose Theodore, in 2001-02), I was still thrilled to be there. What an honour.

“The Stanley Cup obviously hurt more. That was a stinger.”

The goal probably should have counted to complete his 2004 playoff odyssey in which he carried the team on his back by scoring big goals and fighting in every round.

But, again, such is life in sport.

few bounces later and, guess what, his Olympic jersey is now hanging in the Hall of Fame.

As he points out, one of his goals in that tourney rolled over the line by an inch or so.

A bounce.

The result: 50 years of Olympic drought ... over.

Eight years later, he gets the puck to Sid for the Golden Goal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

“That was one of those moments where it ends the right way,” said Iginla.

“The way you grew up dreaming it would end.”

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