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Originally Posted by Temporary_User
I sat next to Malarchuk's wife at a Flames game a while back. This was a couple years back towards the end of the season when everyone was speculating if Kipper was actually going to retire or not.
I asked her if she had any insight into this and she flat out stated "If Hartley stays, he will retire....he hates Hartley...like at today's practice, it was scheduled for 10am and he stood at the gates waiting to step on the ice exactly at 10am. Wouldn't give Hartley an extra minute of practice."
At the time I sort of blamed Hartley for driving Kipper out of town, but now realize that was just him changing the mentality of the locker room and demanding it all from everyone no matter who you are.
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Kipper was probably always likely to retire when he did but that's kind of funny if true and seems like Kipper being Kipper.