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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
That's very true, but during Shanahan's prime there were a lot more superstars in the league than during the time when Iginla led the league in goals/points. If Iginla's prime coincided with players like Lemieux/Jagr/Sakic/ Lindros/etc there would have been no discussion of Iginla being the best player in the league.
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fair enough although I don't think players all of a sudden stopped getting good at hockey during Iggy's prime- there were good players in Iggy's time too- we can argue that in 01-02 that was a year where for whatever reason there weren't as many elites on the top of their game but that was only one of 3 times he was tabbed as one of the league's top 3 players...Shanahan was consistently behind too many of his peers- anyways in the end I think you could argue maybe that Shahanan's career had more depth to it and Iggy had more peak but at best they are darn close