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Just as the longer than usual bus journey from LA to Anaheim commenced, Flames Media Relations ace Sean Kelso handed out the game sheet summary from the Flames 5-2 conquest of the Kings.
Casually glancing at all the statistical story of the game as the traffic on the freeway built up, the eyes fixed upon the 3 Star segment. One look, two looks, a third look and sure enough the name Jarome Iginla was missing.
How could it be? Iginla was easily the best player on the ice and if that wasn’t noticed by the selector (s) a look at the scoring column should have given the Flame captain at least one of the 3 star spots.
After all, it very, very rare that a player scores 3 goals in a game and isn’t picked as a star.
Fortunately, our Fan960 colorman Mike Rogers in picking the Molson Cup 3 Stars had Iginla as first star.
The captain started the scoring 13 seconds into the game before adding one in each the 2nd and 3rd periods. Not only that but Iginla was a force all afternoon, in all areas. True, he sat in the penalty box twice in the 3rd period of a close game but those were infractions brought on by his aggressive play. His penalty killing teammates thought so much of the captain’s work that they killed off both penalties and got a bonus when Daymond Langkow scored a SHG which turned out to be the game winner.
The “too casual” public comment coach Brent Sutter made about his team after the 7-1 drubbing to Chicago, got the players attention. Some stated they do make their teammates accountable when things need to be pointed out and just to prove it, Saturday’s performance was strong from all areas with the starring captain leading the way. Coach Sutter was impressed with the team’s workmanship afterwards.
By the way, the 2 Flame stars picked in LA were Langkow and Curtis Glencross. They both played well, but not better than Iginla.
