Iginla Traded to Pittsburgh

[hockeyfan1]

http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/50872-Jarome-Iginla-traded-to-Pittsburgh-Penguins-for-uninspiring-return.html

...an organization that has been stumbling around in the dark for the past three years has finally decided to blow things up and start over. And it only took two years of irrefutable evidence to convince the Flames to finally do it. That is not the kind of creative, proactive thinking that moves teams forward.

There was a time not long ago when the Calgary Flames had the low-Canadian dollar, low-revenue excuse for being a bad team. But over the past eight years, they?ve had those crutches kicked out from underneath them. They are among the most revenue-rich organizations in the league, play in a perennially sold-out building and have the resources to spend to the upper limit of the salary cap every year.

And they?ve squandered most of that away by making bad decisions, or in their case, not making any decisions at all. The result is the good folks of Calgary are in for a long, long dry spell, one that will almost certainly outlast the good memories that Jarome Iginla gave them.

Do The Three Stooges run this team? 

 

[sneakyray]

"To be clear - no excuses -  our group at TSN, of which I'm part of, regrets making a reporting error tonight. Apologies to our audience.

That said, we have an outstanding group at TSN, second to none, and we'll move forward to do a great job for our viewers/listeners/readers."

lol...bobby mac apologizing for tsn.  Maybe he's saying this knowing that the deadline day coverage is fast running out of good deals to report.

also, give kypreos credit.  he reported that the boston deal was NOT done early on in the evening while everyone else was figuring out their new boston rosters.

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Suck it, Boston.

 

[maplesyrup]

Suck it, Boston.

^ THIS ^

 

[drummond]

The Penguins are definately gunning for ultime prize - Lord Stanley.

 

[Zee]

Or not. Aaron Ward just lost some cred.

Ward looks like a fool! He's got all the papers scrambling to change their headlines.

To be fair to Ward, he probably had sources around Boston who all thought a deal was done.  Apparently it was Iginla not approving a deal that would send him to Boston since he had to agree to it.  Dreger was suggesting this morning that the Bruins were already getting a jersey ready with Iginla's name on it LOL

 

[Boston Leaf]

Suck it, Boston.

^ THIS ^

Double that

 

[Corn Flake]

Iginla... so does HEEE play goal?

Also, this:

Suck it, Boston.

^ THIS ^

Double that

More like the Boston BURRRNS!!!!1

 

[Corn Flake]

Iginla might not be the player that he once was, but he still has 22 points in 31 games on a really crappy team.  Stick him on Pittsburgh's loaded roster and I'm sure his production will improve a bit.

Iginla hasn't had a centre to keep up with him since..., well I don't know if he ever has.  So now he's with Crosby or Malkin.. yeeeaah that will help just a little. 

 

[bustaheims]

Two okay prospects and a late 1st? None of the guys people generally consider to be Pittsburgh's top prospects? Go Feaster!

 

[Kin]

Two okay prospects and a late 1st? None of the guys people generally consider to be Pittsburgh's top prospects? Go Feaster!

In fairness it didn't exactly sound as though he had much in the way of leverage here.

 

[bustaheims]

In fairness it didn't exactly sound as though he had much in the way of leverage here.

I guess not, but, still, up until the last moment, Iginla appeared to be willing to go to Boston as well. You'd think he would have been able to use that to at least get one top prospect.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

In fairness it didn't exactly sound as though he had much in the way of leverage here.

I guess not, but, still, up until the last moment, Iginla appeared to be willing to go to Boston as well. You'd think he would have been able to use that to at least get one top prospect.

And with a week to go until the trade deadline, he still had some time to play hard ball.

 

[Kin]

In fairness it didn't exactly sound as though he had much in the way of leverage here.

I guess not, but, still, up until the last moment, Iginla appeared to be willing to go to Boston as well. You'd think he would have been able to use that to at least get one top prospect.

For a 35 year old year old rental with declining numbers? Stranger things have happened but I tend to think those days may be drawing to a close.

 

[Peter D.]

Iginla reuniting with Olympic linemate Crosby, where they showed obvious chemistry.  I'm sure it'll bring Iginla back to a level we are accustomed to from him.

I went to bed thinking the Boston deal was done, so needless to say I was shocked to hear he is now a Pen.

 

[Zee]

Two okay prospects and a late 1st? None of the guys people generally consider to be Pittsburgh's top prospects? Go Feaster!

Feaster is an idiot, this should have happened 2 years ago not now.  Could have gotten more for Iginla back then and be well on his way to actually starting a rebuild.

 

[maplesyrup]

There's a line of thinking this was more the owner than Feaster... Who knows?

 

[cw]

In fairness it didn't exactly sound as though he had much in the way of leverage here.

I guess not, but, still, up until the last moment, Iginla appeared to be willing to go to Boston as well. You'd think he would have been able to use that to at least get one top prospect.

The Flames should have been blown up a while ago in my opinion (of years gone by). Feaster left it too late. Sure they were close to the playoffs in prior seasons but there was little chance they'd have a shot at a Cup with their aging top players. Now, the return for Iginla isn't likely to make that much of an impact - when they could have got more in prior seasons. Ditto for Kiprusoff and a handful of the others.

In a way, not a perfect comparison but somewhat close, Nieuwendyk made that decision with Morrow.

Leafs made the same mistake as Feaster at the 2006 deadline. They could have seriously retooled at that deadline with McCabe, Tucker, Kaberle, etc - instead they got deals with no trade clauses and Kaberle was the only one who returned anything.

 

[cw]

Suck it, Boston.

^ THIS ^

Double that

Triple it

 

[Bullfrog]

Feaster is an idiot, this should have happened 2 years ago not now.  Could have gotten more for Iginla back then and be well on his way to actually starting a rebuild.

Perhaps Iginla wasn't prepared to be traded then?