The Calgary Sun's Eric Francis discusses the curious case of Jarome Iginla in a Sunday column pondering the former Flames captain's post-Pittsburgh options. Francis believes that Iginla can in fact continue his quest to capture a Stanley Cup if the soon-to-be-36-year-old takes way, way less than the $7 million he theoretically earned this past season (he received 48 games thereof), despite the fact that Iginla is still the equivalent of a 60-point-scorer...
In no small part because the vast majority of the teams in position to compete for the Stanley Cup find themselves facing a salary cap crunch (with re-signing players likely to gobble up their cap room) as the "upper limit" drops from $70.2 million to $64.3 million.
As such, Francis believes that Iginla will have to at least halve his salary demands to latch on with Los Angeles, Chicago, Anaheim, St. Louis, Vancouver or even Detroit:
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