DENVER — Only when you’ve been scoring at will for nearly two decades would a rare misfire raise such suspicion.
With his next tally, Colorado Avalanche sharpshooter Jarome Iginla will join the NHL’s ultra-exclusive 600-goal club.
And it would be fitting — wouldn’t it? — if the former face-of-the-franchise and all-time leading scorer for the Calgary Flames reached that mind-boggling milestone in Saturday’s meeting with his old mates in the Mile High City.
“I heard he missed an empty-net the other night, waiting to try to get it against us,” joked Flames defenceman Dennis Wideman earlier this week, referring to an attempt that was blocked before it could reach a vacated cage.