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Old 01-16-2026, 10:32 PM   #26
Jay Random
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Originally Posted by FanIn80 View Post
People love to say Utah isn't trading Iginla... but they have a metric -tonne of young superstar forwards, and not a single top-4 D outside of Sergachev.
But they only have one player who was the first ever draft pick of their franchise, who is the son of a Hall of Fame player, and whom they have made the centrepiece of their marketing campaign. If they trade him, they can easily replace him on the ice, but they can't replace the hype they built around him.
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