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The knock came on Jarome Iginla’s hotel room door at quarter to six in the morning on cut day at Team Canada’s World Junior Championship training camp in New Brunswick.Every teenager in the hotel was on edge, but Comeau quickly calmed Iginla’s nerves.“You’ve been traded to Calgary,” Comeau told him.“Why would Kamloops trade me to Calgary?” Iginla replied.Iginla breathed a sigh of relief. Overnight on Dec.
Iginla, who turns 43 next week, finished his NHL career with an even 1,300 points – 625 goals and 675 assists. He was the NHL’s dominant power forward for more than a decade, notching two 50-plus goal seasons, with five campaigns at better than a point per game. He was also the heartbeat of the Calgary Flames.
Iginla captured a Ted Lindsay Award as MVP in 2001-02 as voted by his peers, one Art Ross Trophy as leading point getter, two Rocket Richard trophies as leading goal scorer, plus three first-team All-Star selections at right wing. Theodore wasn’t even voted the first-team all-star goaltender that year – not that you’d hear Iginla cry foul.
Iginla was the ultimate competitor. His toe-to-toe fight with opposing captain Vincent Lecavalier of the Lightning to kick off Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final at the Saddledome in 2004 was the stuff of legend. McLennan called him one of the best trash-talkers to play the game.Off the ice, Iginla’s leadership also set him apart.
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