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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
One might say 'he plays with Johnny'. Virtually every great player in the league plays with at least one other great player. You show me a star who turns scrubs into 60 point producers, and I'll show you Sid.
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Jarome Iginla literally turned a 32 point Conroy into a 75 point pseudo-#1C and he never played with one other great player at forward. While he was teammates with some great players (Savard, St. Louis, Fleury) there were reasons, often off the ice, why none of those became the pairing that Johnny-Mony is. The guys he did eventually get - Lankgow, Conroy, Huselius, Tanguay, Simon, Jokinen - were all flawed players, not bonafide superstars like Gaudreau.
Iginla was also so, so much more than a goal scorer. Despite Monahan playing center, I'd wager Iginla had more shift-for-shift impact. He was like, A Byfuglien and a Wheeler at the same time.