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HIS NAME IS JAROME, and that's the way you spell it. The last name is Iginla, and the way you pronounce it depends on where you are. The accepted usage is "Ee-GEN-la," although in Kamloops, British Columbia, where the 18-year-old right wing plays junior hockey for the Blazers of the Western League, "EYE-jen-la" also gets the job done.
If you don't know who he is, you are not alone. Jarome Iginla is the prospect the Dallas Stars sent to Calgary this week for Joe Nieuwendyk, completing the most controversial deal of the NHL season. In dressing rooms and front offices all over the league, there is surprise to put it mildly that after all the scouting done by new Flames GM Al Coates, after all the negotiation, all he got for Nieuwendyk was Jarome Iginla.
As the article points out, he could have had Ray Ferraro and Dan Cloutier from the Rangers instead. Dumbass.
