I have to admit, despite his well publicized pouting I've always liked the guy. A large part of that probably goes back to when he was a bargain bin signing in 2010. Darryl took a lot of heat for it but this was in the midwinter of the Brent Sutter era, when we had guys like Lundmark, Boyd, and Nystrom regularly playing shotgun to Iggy. Tangs put up 70 points that year and probably saved a large contingent of this fan base from a collective boredom-induced seppuku. He was exactly the kind of player the Flames needed at the time.
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I liked him a lot better in his underpaid, underrated second stint here, as opposed to the overpaid, overhyped first stint. Great hands & vision. Had a tendency to disappear for large stretches, but when he was on and engaged he was fun to watch
I'll never understand the grief he got for ''pouting'' his way off the team. When he left the first time, he didn't make any public statement about wanting out. He never publicly made a trade request. Not only did it all go down quietly and without distraction, but he didn't even get traded until the off-season. I've yet to see any article or interview with him asking for a trade during that season. Because as far as I know, he kept it private between him and team. Exactly how it should go down.
Keenan took him off of Iggy's line and put him on the PK. He still had a +11 rating that season in a more defensive role, and put up 58 points. Something no Flames' player is likely to put up this season. It wasn't the role he signed up for, but I thought he did a decent job and I remember poster here saying he looked pretty good defensively.
Did he play up to his full potential the 2nd stint? He more then met his quota the first year and was publicly proclaimed by the very media who mocked the signing, as the best FA signing of the summer. The entire team was in shambles in year 2. But yet again, he played out the entire season. Not once was he ever traded or did he ''quit'' on the team mid-season with the Flames.
IMO that criticism is completely overblown, and was likely made to be an issue because he didn't always show the most emotion, or might not have been the most vocal person on the bench when the TV camera panned over to him.
One of the smoothest little flick/wrist/whatever you call in shots in the game. It was beauty. Yeah so he had a couple cries, what of it. Real fun player to watch.
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My family had season tickets to the Halifax Mooseheads when Tanguay was playing his junior there. I was never so happy to hear an acquisition announced as that day Gary stepped to the podium.
I liked him a lot better in his underpaid, underrated second stint here, as opposed to the overpaid, overhyped first stint. Great hands & vision. Had a tendency to disappear for large stretches, but when he was on and engaged he was fun to watch
He was overpaid his first stint? 81pts for $5M was pretty great. His second season where he only scored 58pts was not great but still decent production. His second stint, first season back was great 69pts for $1.75M.
