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He does look like he's lost a step.

I suppose it wouldn't hurt to offer Mikhail Grabovski, Luca Caputi, Tim Brent and Jeff Finger to the Flames for Iginla, but only if they include their best prospect.
 
Now, you have to realize fitting Iggy in the roster will use up all remaining cap space for this season (and that's assuming we send Finger to the minors), and leave us with little wiggle room for the next 3 years too.

And obviously, you have to give up something to get Iggy. I don't think we need to give up Kaberle, but it'll still take a significant package to land Iggy. It's just the flames can never get fair return trading a player with $21M left on his contract.
 
zeke said:
no more old guys past their prime on star contracts.

screw it.
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Jerome Iginla has been my favorite non Leaf for a long long time.
That being said, I have to agree with Zeke on this one, by the time the Leafs might need a Jerome Iginla to make a difference, he wont be Jerome Iginla anymore, he'll just be old and overpaid. Been there done that too many times.

Besides, after we raped the Flames for Phaneuf, the only way they trade us Iggy is if Burke bends over and hands Sutter a tube of lubricant.
 
zeke said:
no more old guys past their prime on star contracts.

screw it.
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You know, part of me is thinking exactly that way.

But part of me is thinking the 'old guy past his prime' is still scoring 35+G 2 seasons in a row, under one of the most offensive inept coach in the league.

Iggy can easily score 40G under Wilson's system.

And the 'old guy' still played in full 82 games 3 years in a row.

I have no problem taking on Iggy's $7M contract at 32 ... I just don't know if I still want to pay him $7M at 35.
 
Zeke is right.

for what its going to cost to get Iggy, the leafs would be foolish to partake.

Something however like Thornton plus picks for Iggy makes a ton of sense to me....those 2 guys along with LeCavalier i think are the big 3 moved
 
Iggy's game relies too much on finding open spaces quickly for him to be an important part on the Leafs. He needs to go to a team where he can play with a top notch set up man. If Savard is healthy then the Bruins make a ton of sense.

In fact, if I were Boston I would offer the second pick for Iginla.
 
Iginla old? Are you kidding? He won't even turn 33 until July 1st. He's also only signed until he's 35, so he's likely still going to be comfortably in his prime for the rest of his contract, and he's only one season removed from back-to-back-to-back 94-98-89 point seasons. I'd be thrilled to get him in a Leaf uniform, but I'm not sure if Burke would be able to pull off the trick of getting Sutter to trade us one of his franchise players for a bunch of middling players twice.
 
As bad as Calgary is as a city, don't take my favourite player in the NHL currently, and throw him into this mess.
 
LeafGm said:
Iginla old? Are you kidding? He won't even turn 33 until July 1st. He's also only signed until he's 35, so he's likely still going to be comfortably in his prime for the rest of his contract, and he's only one season removed from back-to-back-to-back 94-98-89 point seasons. I'd be thrilled to get him in a Leaf uniform, but I'm not sure if Burke would be able to pull off the trick of getting Sutter to trade us one of his franchise players for a bunch of middling players twice.
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players like him tend to break down a little earlier than most. i think iginla could still put up dynamite numbers playing alongside a top notch set up man. i don't know if he still has it in him to be a team's primary generator of offense. he has lost a step and quickness has always been a huge element of his game.

don't get me wrong -- i'd love to see him wearing the blue and white -- but i don't know if the leafs are in a position to surrender the assets he would be sure to cost them.

besides, considering how widely he has been panned for gifting phaneuf to burke i think it'll be a long, long time before sutter makes another deal with burke. of course, crazier things -- ie, sutter trading for toskala -- have happened, but i think a trade with the leafs is unlikely.

hell, do the leafs even have the pieces to tempt calgary to strike a deal? iginla isn't going to come cheap. he means too much to that organization, and sutter will be under heavy artillery if he moves him. it'll have to be for a worthwhile package. if iginla is moved it won't be like the phaneuf or heatley trades, calgary will either be getting a top five draft pick or a budding young star.

i'm not sure if the leafs could get a trade for him done without putting kadri or schenn into play. and i wouldn't make that deal. i don't think that burke would, either.
 
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