I really think that Flames fans have to realize that if it were not for the goaltending of Miikka Kiprusoff in the 2007-2012 years, they would have been a bottom 10 team already.
I know his last couple of years were nothing to write home about, but some of those years he stood on his head and made a 10th to 12th place team into either a playoff team or a 9th to 10th place team.
If he could only have played better in the shoot out they probably would have made the playoffs a couple of extra years.
Iggy always was a leader who lead by example rather than a guy who stood up in the room. Rhett Warrener has said this numerous times on the radio.
Sutter was never the problem, an old team living off of the glory of the 2004 cup run was the issue.
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