Sometimes some fans are never satisfied.

   For instance, in mid-January when the Flames won 9 out of 10 games, including the impressive 3-2 victory at San Jose, Fan 960 talk show callers and e-mailers were wondering if the club wasn’t peaking too soon.

   These days, despite a 4-game point streak with 3 wins, the often asked question is, “what’s wrong with Jarome?”

   While the Flames captain would be the first to admit he’d like to be more productive, especially in the Goals column, he isn’t doing too bad this ’08-09 season. He’s registered 3 more points than games played and is one point away from being the NHL’s top 10 point-getters.

   Its a tribute to the overall team scoring depth that in the 22 games Iginla didn’t collect a point the team has an 11-7-4 record.  Same for Saturday’s 7-5 win at Phoenix in which 12 Flames collected at least one point but the captain wasn’t among them.  The first time since Iginla arrived in Calgary that the team would score that many points without the RW being on the scoresheet.

   Not scoring a point in 22 of 56 games means Iginla gets points every 6.1/10 games.  It pales in comparison a bit to last season when Iggy had points every 7/10 games ending with 96pt in 82 games. This season’s pace is somewhat similiar to ’01-02, which was the year Iginla led the league in goals with 52 and points with 96.  He didn’t notch a point in 30 of 82 games for an average of points every 6.3/10 games.

  Perhaps the better news is that in ’03-04 when Iginla was the key leader as the Flames went to the Cup final. During the regular-season he didn’t gain a point in 36 of 81 games an average of points in 5.6/10 games.  In the playoffs he had points in 18 of 26 games. 

  Don’t worry about Iginla. He’s one of the greatest clutch players in Flame history. 

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