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Originally Posted by Itse
Kipper actually also had a lot of drive to get better, even after he was already The Kipper. He just looked aloof.
It's probably the same with Rämö.
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I think this is an issue people sometimes have when judging goaltenders. I've always heard the same thing about Kiprusoff: he had an extremely competitive streak as a goaltender.
The two above don't play a fire and brimstone type of style like Thomas, and might not always show it while playing ala Karlsson or Berra, but both (especially Kiprusoff) seem like competitive goaltenders. Ramo certainly tries on some of those scrambles. Whether or not his talents will catch up to the NHL speed and level of traffic (something he was fighting before seemingly permanently benched) is another question.
To be honest though, I can't imagine many people without a pretty strong drive are willing to take a job where, as Plante put it, 18,000 people boo every time you make a mistake.