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Snapshots: Iginla, Kirk, Greco

July 25, 2018 at 4:17 pm CDT | by Gavin Lee 4 Comments

The Calgary Flames announced today that Jarome Iginla will officially retire from professional hockey on Monday, though he hasn’t been an active player for a full season. Iginla, 41, did attend some AHL practices this past season and was a potential candidate for the Canadian Olympic team, but failed to actually play in any games. Monday will mark the end of a more than two decade long playing career that is sure to put him into the Hall of Fame without much delay.

Iginla ended up with 1,554 career regular season games in which he scored exactly 1,300 points. He never did raise the Stanley Cup—though Flames fans will still tell you how they deserved to win in 2004—but will still go down as one of the game’s all-time power forwards. With 625 career goals he ranks 15th on the career leaderboard, tied with Olympic teammate Joe Sakic. Iginla did win two gold medals at that tournament, and was the player who sent an incredible pass to Sidney Crosby for the “Golden Goal” in Vancouver in 2010. We’ll have more on Iginla’s retirement when it becomes official on Monday.

  • Liam Kirk, the first English born and trained player to ever be drafted into the NHL, has signed on to play with the Peterborough Petes of the OHL this season. Kirk was selected 189th overall by the Arizona Coyotes in June, and will have to compete at a brand new level next season. Playing for the Sheffield Steelers last season in the EIHL, Kirk recorded just 16 points in 52 games. He’ll be asked to do more than that this season for the Petes, but will have the luxury of playing against players his own age.
  • The New York Islanders have struggled for quite some time to find above-average starting goaltending, and they’ll try a different approach this season. The team has hired Piero Greco to replace Fred Brathwaite as their goaltending coach, taking him from the Toronto Maple Leafs organization where he has worked with their minor league affiliate for the past few seasons. Greco is credited for developing Maple Leafs goaltender Garret Sparks from a seventh-round afterthought into the AHL Goaltender of the Year, and will now try to turn around the careers of Robin Lehner and Thomas Greiss. Both goaltenders have shown high-level ability in the NHL, but will find some consistency if the Islanders are to compete in the Metropolitan Division this season.
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  1. Paul Heyman

    7 years ago

    Have a great retirement Jarome.

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  2. pawtucket

    7 years ago

    Maybe one of the top 5 Canadian players – all things considered. Leadership, scoring, toughness, defence, class. Few players like him

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    • jdgoat

      7 years ago

      Few players like him for sure. But saying top 5 Canadian ever is a huge stretch imo

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      • pawtucket

        7 years ago

        Maybe you are right. 5-10 then
        But don’t just consider scoring. Crosby is a stud, for example, but doesn’t have the same leadership and class as iginla. Won’t drop the gloves with the heavyweights when s*** hits the fan, and complains a lot to the refs

        Iggy covers all that in spades and scores less points. Still maybe equally valuable IMO

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