Jarome Iginla, a man who needs no introduction, sat down tonight with a rare intermission edition of After Hours (Inter Hours?) to talk about his big career moments, spanning from his early tryouts to his Olympic appearances. Plus, a bonus mini-edition with Mike Vernon during the second intermission.
First off, his immediate reaction to the retirement ceremony:
On his trademark humility:
The interesting story of Iggy’s first Flames jersey- an impromptu purchase so he had one to wear during one of his first hockey tryouts:
Another story of a first tryout, this one being his 2002 Olympics invite:
More Olympics content, focusing on his invaluable contribution to one of hockey’s most iconic goals:
Another breakdown of an iconic Iggy moment- the Shift:
The one viewer question of the night was a toughie, asking Iginla about how he feels about the absence of a Stanley Cup in his career:
To wrap things up, they closed with Iginla’s charity work and general goodness in the community:
A bonus clip for you! Mike Vernon stopped by during the second intermission to briefly discuss his times playing with and against Iggy and number 12’s importance to the organization:
Part two:
Where are the clips about the cups that he won? Oh, right…
…idiot…
Question @TheRock…what Nation are you from? …and if you say ON, I’m gonna puke.
I’m a regular FN fan. Always have been, always will be.
I just never was an Iginla fan. I thought he was over rated.
I would prefer to see some other numbers from my generation retired – such as #39, #25, or #14.
If you didn’t win us a cup, why should we retire your number? If every nice guy got his jersey in the rafters, we would be on to 4 digit number bars.
…idiot…Hockeysense took the words out of my mouth.