He looks like a much more engaged/energized upgrade on Horton. I'd like more score sheet evidence, but I'm enjoying watching him.
FWIW, the man is wearing the correct laundry. How the hell do people hold it against him that he made a grave error last year and paid for it by wasting a year of his career with a hateful, loser team? Would last years version of Iginla got us a cup? Let's move on.
How do you know it wouldn't have? Last years version of Iginla had 4 goals and 8 assists through 15 games of the playoffs. Jagr, the best replacement Boston could come up with on short notice, had 0 goals and 10 assists and looked like an old aged cluster**** in 22 games, square peg in a round hole. We have no idea if Iginla would have been the difference, but it's hard to imagine he wouldn't have been a far better option then what we did have. It's very very possible that decision cost Boston the cup.
And it wasn't that he just chose Pittsburgh over Boston, it's the manner in which he did it. You move on, I'm much happier not pretending like the guy didn't screw over the Bruins and their fans last season.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1387869&highlight=iginla&page=11
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1387499&highlight=iginla
What he said on the first episode of 'Behind the B' made sense if you can look outside of blatant Bruin-homer glasses.
He said at the time of the trade he wanted to go to the team that, at the time appeared to have the best chance at winning the Cup.
Boston was slumping at the time and Pittsburgh had just won 15 games in a row.
Which would you choose being a professional Hockey player who's been in the league 16 years and not won a Cup? It's not like he was an all out Bruins fan like we are here. Don't take it so personal.
Then he shouldn't have said before the trade deadline he would accept a trade to Boston. That way Chia might not have wasted so much time trying to acquire him and could have instead focused on a better plan B.
I get it, everyone wants to like the guy now because he's a Bruin. Have at it.
There isn't even anything to get over. You're holding a grudge against someone for making a complicated decision based on their own personal and professional situation, which may have even ended as a coin-toss decision, and acting like they betrayed you on a personal level.
There is nothing to "get over" because there is nothing to be upset about in the first place.
How would you like it if someone you never met held a grudge about you for choosing to work at job X in town Y, because it was a tough decision, yet one that you made because it was best for your current personal, family, and professional situation?
Honestly, why would I care? Same applies here I don't expect a player or team to care what I think about them, I'm one fan. And for fans not to be invested, that doesn't sound very logical. Fans get invested personally, it's what being a fan is about. So I don't have to like the guy, nor do I have to respect him. What I have to do is hope he's successful because he plays for the team I root for.
