Sitting next to a goalie coaches wife last year she told me and Kipper and Hartley did not see eye-to-eye on a few things. Even as far as saying at the morning skate he was standing at the gate because he wouldn't go on the ice even a minute early. He really hated Hartley.
I look at it as Kipper didn't want to uproot his family for what he knew would just be a year or two. So it was play Hartley or retire--He choose to retire.
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