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Originally Posted by 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.
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You don't have to acknowledge anything negative if you don't want to, but dont chastise those who correctly identify his flaws and how they are negatively impacting this club.
Why might we care? Because they impact the team.
- Kipper essentially handing himself an NMC this year prevented the Flames from moving him for an asset should they have wanted to. Don't fool yourself, the Flames and Kipper didn't just "forget to put the NMC in "at the end of the contract, it was not there cause the Flames acknowledged they may want to leverage his worth. He took that away.
- Kipper now keeping the the Flames in the dark about his retirement prevents the team from fully knowing their cap situation as we head into a potential high trade zone and FA. Not good for the team.
All of this is "his right to do" (although I'd argue the first a little) but none of it is positive for the club.
It's kind of funny, 2013 has likely seen the last of two legendary Flames in Iggy and Kipper end their tenures with the club, and both in varying degrees sort of stuck it to the Flames as they exited. Neither in a fashion that should at all tarnish their legacies, but its interesting to see how Flames fans are far more willing in mass to acknowledge that Iggy might not have done the best thing, but Its almost blasphemy to even hint that Kipper is anything but a saint, especially considering id say what Kipper did hampered the Flames more so than Iggy.