[Signing] Bruins Sign Iginla 1 Year $6Mil

[MrCallahan]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

I find it kind of weird Iginla never made a comment or statement about the Calgary flood. Unless i missed it.

I was actually wondering about this too, I don't recall seeing any comments by him either.

outside of that, does anyone know how Iggy's stats were during the pre-season? tried tracking them down, and couldn't see them. Curious to see how they looked.

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by Mango

Just a fantastic read from today's Boston Globe:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/20...ALI/story.html

Great article. Hopefully using the assets we got from actually moving on from the Iginla era, a quicker rebuild and turn around and we get to see finish his career on a contending Flames team.

[minnow]

Aw shucks, you folks are getting me all misty eyed all over again! Good luck Iggy!

[BurningSteel]

Still sucks (but had to happen) to see him in another teams jersey.

[return to the red]

The guy says all the right things and I hope he does well but in the end I'm a FLAMES fan and if that requires me to boo him then so shall he be boo'd.

[squiggs96]

Anyone who boos Iginla is not a Flames' fan. Unless he runs our goalie, or some other dirty move, then there isn't anything in hockey he could do that would warrant a boo. I am all for cheering against him when the Flames play the Bruins, but I won't boo. I also won't boourns.

[return to the red]

Originally Posted by squiggs96

Anyone who boos Iginla is not a Flames' fan. Unless he runs our goalie, or some other dirty move, then there isn't anything in hockey he could do that would warrant a boo. I am all for cheering against him when the Flames play the Bruins, but I won't boo. I also won't boourns.

hence the part where I said "requires"

also I love it when people suggest what makes a Flames fan

[Igottago]

I really hope Iggy has a fantastic year and goes deep with the Bruins. I think he's got some quality hockey left in him.

[stemit14]

Originally Posted by MrCallahan

I was actually wondering about this too, I don't recall seeing any comments by him either.

outside of that, does anyone know how Iggy's stats were during the pre-season? tried tracking them down, and couldn't see them. Curious to see how they looked.

Iginla looked great in the preseason... 3 goals and 1 assist in 3 games played. But he was constantly creating chances out there. He'll for sure have a huge year. When January comes around and Iginla has more goals than all other Canadians (except maybe stamkos), Yzerman will have to rethink snubbing iginla from the Olympic camp.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Steve Bozek

Yes he is. We've never had any player other than him come within one vote of a Hart trophy.

No, but we had a player win the Vezina.
Checkmate.
I don't even think he is the best forward we ever had. If the dollar had not sucked and Fleury haad played a full career in Calgary without all the crap sending him off his rocker, Iginla would have never gotten close to Theo Fleury's numbers. I think he is the greatest ambassador for the team to ever play but I would argue Kipper, big Al, and Theo were better hockey players.

[Iggy Snipe]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

No, but we had a player win the Vezina.
Checkmate.
I don't even think he is the best forward we ever had. If the dollar had not sucked and Fleury haad played a full career in Calgary without all the crap sending him off his rocker, Iginla would have never gotten close to Theo Fleury's numbers. I think he is the greatest ambassador for the team to ever play but I would argue Kipper, big Al, and Theo were better hockey players.

I would argue that Iginla was better than all of them.

[Goodlad]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

No, but we had a player win the Vezina.
Checkmate.
I don't even think he is the best forward we ever had. If the dollar had not sucked and Fleury haad played a full career in Calgary without all the crap sending him off his rocker, Iginla would have never gotten close to Theo Fleury's numbers. I think he is the greatest ambassador for the team to ever play but I would argue Kipper, big Al, and Theo were better hockey players.

If Fleury didn't have all the crap in his personal life that sent him off his rocker he wouldn't have been the player he was. There's really no way to separate the two.

[Hack&Lube]

I wonder if Savard is totally done for good or will he have a chance in a year or two to play with Iggy again. That would be very nice to see.

He's only 36 this year. Martin St. Louis is 38 and led the league in scoring last year. Two of the best players of the 2000s that the Flames threw away for nothing...

[dissentowner]

I think Savard is done and rightfully so. No need to risk quality of life at this point.

[Tinordi]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...-boston-bruins

At the TD Garden in late December, we were treated to a Very Special Holiday Episode of hockey. The principal players were the Boston Bruins and the Buffalo Sabres, but a weird giddiness filled the whole place. Christmas was coming in a few days, and before the pregame introductions, fans watched a montage of goals, body checks, and random punch-ups, all coordinated to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's bubblegum-metal version of "Carol of the Bells." (Nothing says Christmas like slugging a Maple Leaf.) Virtual snowflakes fell from the rafters, mottling every corner of the arena with light. The folks caught on the big screens during stoppages in play smiled a little wider and danced a little more enthusiastically, if not particularly more artfully. Rene Rancourt, who sings pregame national anthems, and altogether looks like the father of the guy Clive Owen played in Croupier, sang some holiday favorites between the second and third periods. The team ran a Christmas-themed installment of its video series, The Bear and the Gang, in which various Bruins were shown engaged in assorted festive silliness while a large man in a bear suit drifted in and out of frame. Carl Soderberg was trying to wrap a plastic goose. And, at one point, the man in the bear suit was sitting on a couch. On his lap, looking quizzical but unquestionably game, was Jarome Iginla, all 17 NHL seasons and 500-odd NHL goals of him. He and the guy in the bear suit got a very big cheer.

It had been a strange week for Iginla. The Bruins had just returned from an extended tour of western Canada during which Iginla found one of his fingers turned into a parenthesis, an injury so grotesque that it became an Internet Instant Classic. Earlier on that same trip, he had returned to Calgary, where he played for more than a decade. The Flames showed a tribute video that resulted in a two-minute-plus standing ovation they could hear in Banff and, at the end of the game, when Iginla was awarded the night's third star, he skated back out for another thunderous greeting, only to find his way off the ice barred by his teammates from Boston. The rapturous applause went on and on and on. It was such a hockey thing for the Bruins to do.

[jlh2640]

Glad to see Jarome on a hot streak. Still has plenty left in the tank.

[dissentowner]

Why bump the signing thread for that? I thought they had extended him.

[-TC-]

I miss Jarome, and I hope like hell he lifts the Cup this year.

When he does, I'm going to bawl like a little bitch.

[minnow]

Originally Posted by Iggy Snipe

I would argue that Iginla was better than all of them.

Most would. Have a great year Iggy...always a warrior!

[FBI]

Yeah every time this is bumped I think Boston re-signed him again.