Enter your email below and we'll send you another email. Iginla is most effective when he has room to manoeuvre, and to create that space, he had to intimidate his opponents. [13], In his final season in Kamloops in 1995–96, Iginla finished fourth in league scoring with 136 points, including 63 goals in 63 games played, and was awarded the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy as the league's most outstanding player. So much so, in fact, that The Canadian Encyclopedia (Historica) suggests: “…the sports world is starving for guys like Iginla. He led Canada in scoring with five goals and nine points as it won the gold medal. His number 12 was retired by the Flames during a pre-game ceremony on March 2, 2019. He likes to speak with players individually, and tries to ensure that all of his teammates are comfortable. "Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played," Iginla explains. “I often found my thoughts turning to God with the recognition that I was truly searching for him.” Highly motivated to answer his own questions concerning matters divine, the newcomer to Canada went for a long walk one day during which he advised God of his spiritual restlessness. It’s welcome news to sports fans accustomed to hearing about the booze-filled, womanizing, after-hours antics of youthful athletic millionaires. The program introduces 10-to-12-year-olds to the game, enabling them to meet players, go to games and get the opportunity to play. My five-year-old son recently announced that his favourite sport is hockey. [30] He was named the recipient of the Mark Messier Leadership Award in 2009. [84] On January 4, 2016, Iginla became the 19th player in NHL history to score 600 career goals. I used to play tournaments with my teammates [on the Flames], and he was better than any of us. [33] The Flames qualified for the 2004 Stanley Cup playoffs as the sixth seed, the team's first playoff appearance in eight years. On his first NHLgame, in 1996 [55] The Flames' declining fortunes and Iginla's season led to increasing questions on whether he could be traded from the team with whom he has played his entire NHL career. [69], Iginla scored his 30th goal of the 2011–12 season in a 3–2 win against goaltender Antti Niemi of the San Jose Sharks on March 13, 2012. [106], The abuse he faced at the hands of opponents early in his NHL career prompted Iginla's coaches to work at developing his physical play. I grew up in Edmonton with my grandma, my mom and my aunt involved with music.They put me in a local music festival every year from grades one to seven. [112], Iginla married his high school sweetheart, Kara, and the couple has three children: daughter Jade and sons Tij and Joe. (approx 1 - 2 per week). [20], —Trevor Linden, after Iginla led a procession of Flames players in shaking Linden's hand following his final NHL game, April 5, 2008[42], The 2007–08 season saw Iginla post his second career 50 goal season, adding 48 assists for a career high 98 points,[20] good for third overall in the league. What a class act, an outstanding player, and a guy with a smile that lights up the room. As a junior, Iginla was a member of two Memorial Cup winning teams with the Kamloops Blazers and was named the Western Hockey League (WHL) Player of the Year in 1996. [65], Iginla scored his 30th goal of the season on a penalty shot against the Nashville Predators on March 6, 2011, and in doing so became the 10th player in NHL history to score at least 30 goals in ten consecutive seasons. [29] His predecessor as captain, Craig Conroy, cited Iginla's experience and leadership for his decision to relinquish the captaincy. Elvis dropped out of medical school and took up law instead, but everyone lived close by in St. Albert, just outside Edmonton. All the other professional sports, including tennis, bowling, golf, baseball, football and boxing, had been racially integrated by 1950. I find that as hard to believe as his contention that he never saw himself as a black hockey player. As the Flames get ready to honour one of the greatest power forwards in NHL history, here’s what people are remembering about Iginla on social media. We Africans like to invest our names with real meaning, and in the Yoruba language (spoken in much of western Nigeria), Iginla means "big tree" -- a fitting description of the six-foot-one, 220-pound forward. [96] Iginla also represented Canada at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey as an alternate captain, playing on a line with Joe Sakic and Mario Lemieux. [48] He ended 2008 with a career high five points in a New Year's Eve game against the Edmonton Oilers.

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