Jarome Iginla spent his prime years reminding the NHL that while everyone else was busy playing hockey, he was busy running a one-man wrecking crew for the Calgary Flames. It is truly adorable how we collectively pretend that the 2008 season was a team effort rather than a daily highlight reel featuring one guy doing all the heavy lifting. His ability to bail out his teammates was less of a strategic asset and more of a charity mission.

While his peers were perfecting their post-game excuses, Iginla was busy burying game-winners like he was checking off a grocery list. - March 2, 2008: Two goals against the Red Wings including the game-winner. - March 23, 2008: A hat trick performance against Minnesota to save the night.

- Career consistency: Nearly two decades of making defensemen look like traffic cones. This wasn't just about scoring; it was about the sheer, predictable inevitability of his presence. Every time the clock ticked down in the second or third period, you knew exactly who was going to clean up the mess his team created.

It is the kind of individual dominance that makes you wonder why the other skaters even bothered showing up to the rink that year. The real tragedy here is not that he eventually retired, but that we had to watch years of sports journalism pretend the rest of the roster was on his level. It is a classic tale of a superstar tethered to a mediocre machine, dragging the entire organization toward relevance by sheer force of will.

Is there anyone currently playing who has the audacity to take over a game so thoroughly without needing a support group? Or are we destined to watch another decade of committee-based scoring and participation trophies? Stay tuned as we dig into the players who actually deserve the spotlight, assuming you can find them.