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Originally Posted by looooob
certainly respect your opinion, and I understand those people who feel that way about the Blues and his departure even if personally I don't feel that way
but he was a FANTASTIC Flame, much more than just during the cup run. Frankly I'm strongly of the opinion he was better as a Flame than he was a Blue, but unfortunately he carried a 'liability with a slapshot' reputation for his early tenure with the Flames (and while that was briefly true ) he was a fantastic player by about 1985. even if he was underrated as a Flame he was a 5 time first or second team all star, and a 3 time Norris runner up as a Flame
MacInnis (5) and Iginla (4) are the only 2 Flames to be named to a post season all star team more than once. Fleury, Lanny and Vernon FWIW each had one single 2nd team all star team to their credit
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That's an understatement.
IIRC he was among top 10 scoring for defensemen 9 times, top 5 six times i believe?
He was the best #1D this team ever saw IMO and for a long stretch of time at that.