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Originally Posted by bigpete
Just gotta say, when Tim Thomas decided to take a year off of hockey for family reasons and not honour his contract, about 95% of posters on here were all over him for it, calling him a classless ######.
Although it's a slightly different situation, now there are rumours about Kiprusoff wanting to do something similar and there is much more sympathy being shown.
I love Kipper as much as anyone, but quitting in the middle of a season is not cool.
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Yeah fair enough. I'm sure I badmouthed Tim Thomas when he quit. It probably had something to do with him being such a wingnut and I don't like him, but it's a valid point.
I'm a Flames fan and so I'd like the Flames to "get" something for Kiprusoff, but I just can't blame the guy for wanting to stay with his family and lose his paycheck for the privelege.
Now, if he came out and said "I'm quitting to prepare for the apocalypse", I'd probably have a different opinion.
EDIT: well shoot, Transplant99 has a good point too. I can't really remember the whole situation with Thomas, other than that he's nuts.