[Signing] Bruins Sign Iginla 1 Year $6Mil

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by jonesy

i don't know why MMF thinks his opinion is correct. I guess if he says it convincely enough some people will believe him. Bruins management was miffed as far as I remember. You can still do business with someone you don't like.

and yes, I also think there is a 'board' of draft players that represents the concensus picks, and that you can go off the 'board' despite MMF saying there 'IS NO BOARD'

There is no board.

[IamNotKenKing]

Originally Posted by browna

Shocked for a number of reasons, that he stayed out east. Very interesting.

And as for the Bruins and the Flames, no matter how loud MMF crows about it, there are/were certainly ill feelings from the Boston side to Feaster (but never Iginla) about the way he handled the situation.

Disagree. Please provide evidence, from Chiarelli.

[Thor]

So HAPPY!

[Red John]

He's right, there is no board

Scouts have said many times that Central scouting tends to be more for fans than for scouts - every team has their own list and many teams don't even end up reading the CSS lists, and when they do its purely for cross-check reasons.

They only way you would know what the consensus "board" is, is if you had all 30 teams lists in front of you. We have zero.

Therefore other scouts or people in the biz can laugh at a pick and say it's "off the board" but as fans we can't.

Because there is no board.

[Major Major]

Originally Posted by jonesy

i don't know why MMF thinks his opinion is correct. I guess if he says it convincely enough some people will believe him. Bruins management was miffed as far as I remember. You can still do business with someone you don't like.

and yes, I also think there is a 'board' of draft players that represents the concensus picks, and that you can go off the 'board' despite MMF saying there 'IS NO BOARD'

If there is a board, where is it? Is it a secret? Kind of like the hockey version of the steroids list I guess.

[edn88]

Well, the good news is that he is not a Flyer, and Oiler or a Canuck.

But other than that, cannot cheer for the Bruins with either Marchand or Lucic on that team.

Best of luck Iggy, but hope you win a cup with some one else.

[Phanuthier]

Thank god it's not Vancouver

[bc-chris]

talk about perfect timing....

a little background - a friend of mine is really tight with recchi and when the bruins beat the canucks a couple years back we sent a bunch of jersey numbers to get signed. they've been sitting in my office just waiting to get done up. this last week mellowed out a little at work so i started working on all the kits that i got signatures for. as i was going thru the jerseys, i noticed i had an extra white bruins jersey. talked with some friends and quickly agreed that i should do Ference on it since his ties to the flames. then this morning Ference went and did the unthinkable so i could no longer do his name/number on my extra jersey. then this afternoon iggy signs with the b's.... perfect!! Ference was 21... well that's easy... 12!! just had to make a few more letters for the namebar and the kit is ready!!!

[jonesy]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

There is no board.

This is why i love and hate you

[Regular_John]

Dang didn't see this one coming, really thought he'd end up in LA... or even St. Louis as a dark horse, but Boston? Wow.

Makes sense really, after going head to head with them in the eastern finals and seeing what they're made of, but still surprising.

[Flabbibulin]

Originally Posted by Phanuthier

Thank god it's not Vancouver

Or the Rangers.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Flabbibulin

Or the Rangers.

Or the Penguins!

[Flabbibulin]

I'm really curious what Iginla was looking for in this deal- I honestly believe his intentions are to float around for a couple years and then finish a year or two as a Flame after we have already gone through the worst of the growing pains. At that point, he will probably only be looking for a couple mill anyway and we will have moved on from the expectation of him being the leader. He can come in like Smyth and just enjoy the last couple years.

[minnow]

Best of luck Iggy, stay healthy and earn that bonus money!

[Flamboyant 14]

At least he didn't sign with the Leafs.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Flamboyant 14

At least he didn't sign with the Leafs.

Or the Oilers.

[burn_baby_burn]

I'm a little surprised by the news. Earlier this afternoon I was listening to HNiC on SXM. They stated that not a word has been mentioned about Igina and that most teams wouldn't want anything to do with him. I'm paraphrasing here but the gist of it was "he is really tough to coach" "former coaches resent him" "Flames dressing room was a mess, or, lots of drama in Flames dressing room". I was surprised cause I have never heard journalists talk this way about him before.

[jonesy]

Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn

I'm a little surprised by the news. Earlier this afternoon I was listening to HNiC on SXM. They stated that not a word has been mentioned about Igina and that most teams wouldn't want anything to do with him. I'm paraphrasing here but the gist of it was "he is really tough to coach" "former coaches resent him" "Flames dressing room was a mess, or, lots of drama in Flames dressing room". I was surprised cause I have never heard journalists talk this way about him before.

I think people in Calgary started getting this bad feeling that maybe our best guy was the problem. I remember thinking a few years ago that we changed coaches, gms, all the core players and the only constant was Iginla.
I know he is suspposed to be a great guy, and I believe he is in general, but it seems he might be hard to coach and he might have been part of the 'problem' in the past years when Calgary was supposed to be a good team. Seems counter intuitive since he was always the best player and was one of those unsettling thoughts that you push away and hope isn't true.
To be honest i thought it would be much more painful to have him go.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Neeper

Lol @ all the poor suckers who bought a Pittsburgh Iggy jersey!

Well, if anyone is looking for jerk of the year, we have a new entry.

Iginla played for the Penguins, they have a jersey commemorating when he did that, knowing it was a short term thing. Buying a jersey is about being a fan, it isn't about resale value, they aren't buying it hoping to flip it later on at a higher price, it's not real estate.

I used to be a huge jersey nut but I haven't been in a while... it's still cool to see rare jerseys that people got. A St. Louis Blues Gretzky. I love seeing an Iginla #24 jersey from his first couple of seasons.

All jerseys go out of style at some point, but the longer they have these the cooler they become.

They aren't poor suckers, they have a piece of hockey memorabilia that represents when one of their favorite players played for a certain team. Now they'll add a Bruins jersey to that collection potentially.

Suckers!

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Or the Oilers.

Or the Flames