Langdon Alger
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Did Calgary get anything for Iginla in this deal? I was surprised by the return at the time. Could they not have got more?
Did Calgary get anything for Iginla in this deal? I was surprised by the return at the time. Could they not have got more?
The two prospects Calgary acquired did nothing with the Flames, and are in the AHL. Morgan Klinchuk, the first round pick selected by Calgary from Pittsburgh is also in the AHL, but is only 23, and might contribute in the future. Since Iginla was a disappointment with the Pens, the trade currently looks like a washout.
Iggy tied the Flames hands. It looks bad on him. And we shall see what impact that has on him possibly making the Hall and getting his jersey retired.
He will definitely be inducted into the HHOF.
Iggy tied the Flames hands. It looks bad on him. And we shall see what impact that has on him possibly getting his jersey retired.
Iggy had 11 points in 13 regular season games and 12 points in 15 playoff games. Not sure how that’s a dissapointment. Either way, Calgary could have got more for him.
There is no way he does not get his sweater retired. This is Jarome Iginla we are talking about. Basically this is Calgary Flames history in a nutshell:
Good team in the 1980s, Lanny McDonald
1989 Cup win
Awful playoff performances post-Cup
Theo Fleury
Jarome Iginla, 2004 Cup run
Period.
That's Flames history for you and Iginla represents about 12 years of it as "the" guy on that team.
Brett Favre had his Packer's jersey retired. Someday I can't imagine the Penguins not doing this to Jagr. Trottier's jersey is retired in Long Island. Bourque's was retired immediately in Boston. It'll happen with Iginla.
0 points in the sweep at the hands of Boston. Granted, Crosby had zero points too, so did Malkin, Neal and Letang. It was really one of the most horrible series I have ever seen a team that good partake in. So no, it isn't all Iggy's fault of course, but he went there for a Cup.
Iggy tied the Flames hands. It looks bad on him. And we shall see what impact that has on him possibly getting his jersey retired.
People make too big a deal out of the "final departure" of players. It's not important enough that anyone's going to prevent a number-retirement or a future ceremony or whatnot.
Gretzky and Pocklington (more so Pocklington) had a media-battle in the summer/autumn of '88, with Pocklington saying Gretzky had "an ego the size of Manhattan" and Wayne getting his digs in, too. But the moment Wayne retired, the Oilers retired his jersey. And there he was, on the ice with Pocklington, smiling, a few years ago in celebrating the '84 Cup anniversary.
It's like Martin St.Louis and the Lightning (Yzerman) management. Everyone went crazy saying how much St.Louis hated Yzerman because he wasn't on the first-roster of the Olympic team and that's why he quit on the Bolts, etc., etc. Hogwash, I say. In the first place, nobody knows whose votes kept St.Louis off the first roster -- it's just as likely that Yzerman was campaigning for him and others were not. Second, nobody cares even a couple of years later. All water under the bridge.
Iginla is a folk-hero in Calgary and some minor manager-player-front office mis-communication and crossed wires isn't cancelling that.
0 points in the sweep at the hands of Boston. Granted, Crosby had zero points too, so did Malkin, Neal and Letang. It was really one of the most horrible series I have ever seen a team that good partake in. So no, it isn't all Iggy's fault of course, but he went there for a Cup.
That was a bizarre series considering Tomas Vokoun really didn’t play THAT poorly (.915 save percentage, double overtime 2-1 game 3, even game 4 was only 1-0.). Vokoun gave up only 3 goals in 2 games at Boston, which 9 times out of 10 sends the series back to Pittsburgh. But this was not to be.
Kinda like a doppelgänger of Vegas/Kings this year where Quick played well but got next to no offensive help and was hung out to dry.
One thing about that 2013 Penguins team after the Iginla trade...... they are an interesting butterfly effect team.
Suppose Boston doesn’t comeback in THAT Leafs game 7 and they avoid Rask and company. Who knows how things play out for that PIT team?
Remember, after that historic 4-1 comeback, they didn’t lose a regulation/non OT game until games 5-6 of the Cup Finals.
The Bruins practically did no wrong for a month. It was insane how one thing got the snowball rolling in such a way.
What people forget is just how dominant Pittsburgh was rolling in the first two rounds. Not to mention they were 2nd in points during the regular season after Chicago. Actually, there was Chicago (77 points) and then Pittsburgh (72) and then the rest of the league. Even in a shortened season those two teams were a clear crop above the rest of the NHL that year.
The Pens led the league in goals that year, ironic considering how it ended with Boston. The Pens needed 6 games to beat the Islanders but then just obliterated the Sens in the next round in 5. Honestly, they looked like they were taking the Cup. Even in the Boston series, they weren't being outshot either.
Iginla played over a decade in Calgary as the main man. The little return they got for him is an inconsequential afterthought compared to what he did there.Iggy tied the Flames hands. It looks bad on him. And we shall see what impact that has on him possibly getting his jersey retired.