Do you think he re-signs in Boston the following year if he came to us that deadline?
If he doesn't, then no bonus problems the year after
He probably does, he saw Boston was the better choice and signed there later, so say he comes to Boston the year before - in all probability they still make it to the finals, maybe they win, maybe they still lose - but either way iginla is looking to make money and play somewhere competitive (at that point anyways, Colorado seemed like an end of career contract choice) so if they win he knows they could repeat if he re-signs, if they narrowly lose, he wants another shot.
Sure woulda been nice to have him in 2013 over Jaromir though, good chance we beat the hawks in 7 (maybe sooner since a lot of those games were close) iginla would have negated the fac Jagr had nothing and was misused by Claude, and Seguin was struggling and being misused. The real problem in that series was that Horton had a shoulder injury and rather than reduce his minutes and put him against easier competition, he stubbornly kept him with Krejci, Jagr with Bergeron, and pushed a struggling Seguin down where he likely wouldn’t excel (I mean the cherry on top was that perfect pass to Daugavins that would have tilted the series massively towards the bruins favor that dogman couldn’t bury)
If Claude has Iginla, well knowing Claude he probably keeps Horton with Krejci but at least Bergeron has Iginla who would have almost assuredly given them more than 0 goals which who knows could have opened up even more room for the third line which Seguin and I believe Peverley were on?
And with the warrior that igninla was I gotta believe he would have helped pull the weight for Bergeron with his injuries, maybe his lung doesn’t get punctured in game 6. I hated the fact Claude kept Jagr with Bergeron when he and Marchand didn’t like playing with him and jagr’s style put way too much on Bergeron which can be attributed to his big injuries