Boston area man has been named to The Athletic's Top 99 NHL player ranking of the modern era.
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https://theathletic.com/3957636/2022...jarome-iginla/
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Iginla wins the fight, of course, because he almost always did. He didn’t fight often, maybe a handful of times a year, because he didn’t have to. But if it needed to be done, he was there. That was what made Iginla such a special player — he could do just about anything his team needed him to do. A goal? Of course. A dominating shift? Yes. Win the crucial battles in his own zone? Often. A crushing open-ice hit to flip the momentum? More than a few. And yes, if somebody needed to step up and trade punches, putting themselves at risk just to make it clear that this team wasn’t backing down from anyone, Iginla was willing and able to do that, too.
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I don’t think the old-school power forward role exists anymore. It probably never will again. And that means that hockey fans will quite literally never see another player quite like Jarome Iginla.
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They also touch on the 2002 Hart snub, and the rarity of having a black superstar in the NHL.
Nice to see our boy get his due after the top-100 snub by the NHL. (I will die on this hill)
Iggy was my hero and to this day is my favorite player of all time. So many stories about the man being even better than the player, and what a player he was.