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Originally Posted by stemit14
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.
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He did. He told Iginla that he wanted him to be a 4th line grinder. One of the premier forwards in NHL at the time, who played all situations for a much better coach in Darryl Sutter, was told by Mike Babcock we need you go play 6 minutes and just hit guys.