[Huntingwhale]

Why do we have have to acknowledge anything negative about him in the first place?

-Kipper's job was to stop puck
-He stopped pucks.

End of story. Who cares of he retires a year early? That is 100% his choice. To say the man doesn't give a #### about anything here is so shortsighted. None of us here know him personally. How can someone possibly know how much someone cares about something without knowing them?

So Kipper didn't say goodbye. So what? Does anyone think he even gives 2 craps about the ''reputation'' he left behind?

It's hilarious reading how some people think Kipper ''owes'' them something simply because he had a contract with the Flames. That somehow, he should stick around, uproot his family, move to another city, all so fans here can get an ''asset'' for him back. Screw that. I say let the man go out on his own terms, into the sunset, with no fanfare, if that's what he wants. We all knew 5 years ago how this might end, with that last year tacked on obviously so he could retire. And here we are. Don't act surprised/angry.

And people need to stop getting riled up whenever Pope Frances releases an article. He knew damn well what he was doing/writting when he wrote that article. And he succeeded in generating talk.