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Originally Posted by Cole436
Hi, Eric.
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Don't be mad cause he's correct. Not everything about Kipper has to be the best thing ever. His weird quirkiness that made him very fun, cool and maybe even a key to his great play definetly becomes less than ideal when a rebuilding was looking to make some changes.
Call a spade a spade, Kipper is a lose cannon and a bit of a self centred loaner. That personality type is probably a huge reason the guy could play such amazing goal for us for the past decade, hard to get phased when you kind of live in your own bubble and don't give a #### about certain things. But lets be honest, those same traits did the Flames 0 favours this season as the man basically did what he wanted and forced the team to extend to him a NMC he didn't negotiate.
Don't get me wrong, if you told me 10 years ago that this would be the price we'd have to pay for a decade of Kipper in net playing the way he did, I wouldn't change a thing. But that doesn't mean those who point out these flaws and their impact to the Flames need to be gagged. Kipper was not perfect, and had down sides, but no one is perfect. I just don't get why many on here refuse to acknowledge anything negative about the guy.