Comments on: Flames turn back clock, reunite Iginla and Jokinen http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/03/flames-turn-back-clock-reunite-iginla-and-jokinen/ ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.com Fri, 24 May 2013 11:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: danphipps01 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/03/flames-turn-back-clock-reunite-iginla-and-jokinen/comment-page-1/#comment-19224 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:13:35 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=53857#comment-19224 In all fairness, letting Cammy go was wise. He was going to be expensive as hell and like Jeff Carter or Rick Nash, he needs a dedicated feed man to really produce. When he has one, he absolutely will – but Calgary didn’t want to reduce Iggy to Cammy’s set-up man, which was more or less what happened during the run with that line. Iggy’s assists shot up, but you don’t mention how far his own goal total plunged – he was shooting a lot less and passing to Cammy on a lot of chances he’d normally take himself. For Calgary, it wasn’t worth it. They would have wound up dropping six million a year on his new contract and without anyone else even remotely capable of feeding him the puck, they would have had to use Iggy as his feed man – basically, they didn’t have a playmaking centre and so Cammy’s production would have had to have come at the cost of Iginla’s. Jokinen didn’t pan out as hoped and they just couldn’t justify Cammy’s cost without a better way to use him. It was the right move.

The revolving-door hilarity with Jokinen, though, was just typical agonizingly bad Calgary GMing. Oh well. Made for all kinds of great punchlines.

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