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Ranking Iginla on Flames List of Greats
by Alanah McGinley on 11/29/07 at 02:09 PM ET
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From David Carroll at TSN,
Jarome Iginla is set to become the Flames all-time leader in games played on Thursday when he hits the ice against the Anaheim Ducks.
The 30-year-old is one of the NHL’s biggest stars and has an impressive list of awards and accomplishments. Iginla has won “Rocket” Richard Trophies, a Lester B. Person Award and an Art Ross Trophy.
He can score and, when needed, can mix it up but where does he rank on the list of Flames all-time greats?
How do you stack Iginla against players like Joe Nieuwendyk, Al MacInnis, Gary Suter, Theo Fleury, Lanny McDonald, Paul Reinhart and Mike Vernon and others? There’s also a poll available on the TSN front page.
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Iggy goes below Nieuwendyk, Lanny, Macinnis, and Vernon.
Why? They all won the Flames a Cup, and took the Flames to two Cup Finals in 4 years, and to do it only went toe to toe with the greatest dynasty of the modern era—the mid-to-late 1980’s Oilers. That means they had to not only get past those Oiler teams every playoffs, but they had to play them a bunch of times throughout the seaosn as well.
Iginla’s teams got to one Finals only to get taken out by the *shudder* Tampa Bay Lightning.
I’ll give you Iginla’s better than Fleury or Reinhart, because yeah… he just is. But the others? Really? C’mon… Jarome has a lot more to accomplish to catch up.
Posted by Primis on 11/29/07 at 07:12 PM ET
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I would rank Iginla right up there with Fleury, Nieuwendyk, Kent Nillson, etc etc.
He is the best power forward the team has ever had.
Posted by PuckHound61 from Speckville USA on 11/29/07 at 04:14 PM ET