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Originally Posted by Yakbutter
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.
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No question, Sutter deserves credit for bringing him in. I'm just saying that Kipper made the team appear to be much better than it truly was and, combined with the '04 run, I think it led to unrealistic expectations as to what the team was capable of accomplishing over all these years. The ugly loss to Anaheim in 06 and the pwnjob at the hands of the Wings in 07 should have been huge red flags as to the limitations and shortcomings of the team.