Music: {allcanada} MORROW UNDERSTANDS IGINLA'S PLIGHT

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

{allcanada} MORROW UNDERSTANDS IGINLA'S PLIGHT

The Calgary Herald observes how the parallels are unavoidable between Jarome Iginla and Brenden Morrow.

Both captains. Both highly respected. Both having come to symbolize the only organizations they have ever known. Both set to become unrestricted free agents on July 1st. Both holding the hammer of no-trade clauses, and therefore wielding a large measure of control. Both the subject of gathering barter speculation as April 3rd's trade embargo hurtles towards us like a runaway freight train.

"For me, 13 years here." mused Morrow. "For him, longer there. The blood and sweat you put in for the organization . . . it's a lot. I don't know exactly his situation. I know what I'm dealing with here. There's no certainty for next year.

"Sometimes it's difficult, hearing the rumours.

"The 60 minutes you play are the easiest. But it's always in your mind, I guess. When you guys bring it up or mom calls or friends start talking about it, there is speculation out there. You do think about it. You try to get it out of your mind as best you can but it's still there, all the same.

"Still, that isn't what's important right now. What's important for me is trying to get this team — and for him, his team — into the playoffs."

Morrow fully grasps the sensations Iginla is going through right now. Because, by circumstance, he happens to be living them, too.

"Every kid who plays hockey dreams of winning the Stanley Cup," said Morrow. "Even when we get here, to the NHL, as great as everything is, it's still all we think about.

"And when I dream of holding that Cup in the air, it's always a Dallas Stars' jersey that's on my chest. Always. Doing that, accomplishing that, here.

"Always.

"So until the situation changes, that's the way my dream is."