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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
This is incorrect as pointed out. But it also needs more attention because some of these stains on our country are the coaches with massive egos like Mike Babcock.
Ole Babcock was going to be the hero to bring gold back to Canada, his great system and winning ways going to teach these players. He had an agenda from day 1 to bury Iginla putting on the 4th line and turning him into a plugger.
His ego almost cost the team, but finally relenting and putting together Iginla-Crosby-Nash. And guess who wins it for us Crosby and Iginla in OT.
Babocock is trash and I am so glad he is out of the league. Some of these Canada coaches are too much.
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This. I remember the first game of the olympics against Germany… pretty sure it was still 0-0 after the first period and Iginla was amongst the lowest in ice time… only seeing the last few seconds of a couple powerplays. Iginla ended up opening up the scoring for team Canada in the 2nd period once he got some real opportunity on the powerplay. Incidentally… he had a hat trick that game.
Felt like no matter how well Iginla played, Babcock had little interest in giving him ice time in those Olympics. Drove me nuts. We all found out later the weird mind games Babcock played with players throughout his career. Couldn’t help but think he did things like that in the Olympics too.