Life after the trade deadline

[ricardodw]

Originally Posted by Nasty

And if he does his respect will insurmountably be diminished by fans and players.

The same as Parise, Chara, Suter, Bouwmeester, Brad Richards, Jokinen, Wideman, Hudler, Cammalleri, Tanguay, Sarich, Glencross, Jackman

ALL ungrateful UFA's who didn't sign with the teams that made them mutli-millionaires.


On the Other hand there are the Honorable well respected guys who sign with their teams when they have a chance to sign as UFA's elsewhere: Stempniak, Stajan, Gio, Rene Bourque, Ian White, Regher,

[FAN]

Originally Posted by ricardodw

The same as Parise, Chara, Suter, Bouwmeester, Brad Richards, Jokinen, Wideman, Hudler, Cammalleri, Tanguay, Sarich, Glencross, Jackman

ALL ungrateful UFA's who didn't sign with the teams that made them mutli-millionaires.


On the Other hand there are the Honorable well respected guys who sign with their teams when they have a chance to sign as UFA's elsewhere: Stempniak, Stajan, Gio, Rene Bourque, Ian White, Regher,

What are you talking about?

[saillias]

Originally Posted by Nasty

And if he does his respect will insurmountably be diminished by fans and players.

That doesn't help the Flames. We need tangible stuff in return for Iginla because there's a good chance he won't stay.

[Goodlad]

Originally Posted by Nasty

you are right, but his arguement was that they make the playoffs before we do. I think we have a better team to get into the playoffs than they do for at least 3 years

They also have a new, highly respected hockey ops team headin into a very deep draft with 3 first rd picks, and already have a much stronger prospect group than the Flames. It's very debateable which club sees the playoffs first.

[ricardodw]

Originally Posted by FAN

What are you talking about?

If Iginla walks as a UFA next year he will not lose any respect from the fans.... any more than all the other UFA's.

If people really disrespected UFA's that sign with other teams they would really hate this Flames team that is basically built on players that came to Calgary as UFA's or like Cammalleri signed elsewhere as a UFA.


Also a lot of the most vilified players are guys like Bourque and Stajan and Babchuck who never jumped anywhere as a UFA. Their signing with the team that owned them did not get them any more respect.

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by PeteLFan

We will sit by the radio and tv all day with rumors of Iginla being on his phone and imminent trade. As the deadline expires its announces Iginla has signed a 3 year extension and the flames trade 1st round pick for Derek Roy the franchise center we have always wanted, as we are going for it.

I think there is actually a very real possibility of this happening.

It also happens to be our worst case scenario...