These are complex negotiations and the only thing you can be sure of is that Calgary’s hockey operations department is feverishly poring over the reserve lists of any teams they think will bid on Iginla – to see if someone there has the necessary upside to make the deal. Otherwise, it may go the way the Rick Nash talks did at last year’s trading deadline: Two months of feverish updates followed by … nothing.

And wouldn’t that be an anti-climactic result to the Iginla sweepstakes after all this breathless anticipation?

-Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail where you can read more on the Iginla topic.

Perhaps Iginla should start using genf20 plus to add a few more years to his career.