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Originally Posted by Mathgod
As much as '04 was awesome... I hate to say this but...
In a twisted kind of way, acquiring Kipper might have been a terrible thing for this team in a long-run perspective. If you ask me, since '04 this has been a mediocre team being propped up by one of the top goalies in the league and one of the best the game has ever seen. The team rode Kipper's play into playoff spots year after year and it disguised that this team was significantly worse than their records indicated and in need of a rebuild all along.
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You are not giving the team credit for acquiring Kipper. And after all, don't you have to consider Kipper as part of the team? It's not like he was here for a year or two, he gave the team almost a decade of elite goaltending.
What's more embarrassing, is that the management of the team failed to take Iginla, who was arguably the best forward in the game for 4-5 seasons and one of the best goalies in nhl history and not make it past the first round more than once.
Kipper was great for the franchise, the team just didn't take advantage of the time they had with him.