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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Feelings aren’t facts.
1) I myself was watching. STH, was there a lot
2) never heard the goalie or the coaches blame goalie fatigue
3) The stats don’t bear it out
4) The narrative doesn’t bear it out
Look at how the Flames actually exited the playoffs.
Game 7 vs Anaheim, team was horribly flat and deserved to lose
Detroit, Kipper stood on his head and kept them in a series in which they were dominated.
Keenan’s last year, vs Chicago, the team was decimated by injuries and limped in to the playoffs. Langkow played with broken hands, Phaneuf broken ribs, Regehr and Gio didn’t play but Pardy, Vanderneer and Eriksson did. Nothing to do with Kipper burning out.
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The Chicago series, make whatever reasons for your narrative, but Kiprusoff was done after game 4. First 4 games were tight, but 76 games in the regular season caught up, and 5-1 and 4-1 losses were not just on Langkow hands, or Phanuefs injuries, or scoring disappearing; Kipper was done too,mentally physically, whatever, as part of that collapse.
I thought the Flames made the playoffs 4 times with Kipper? You only list 3? Oh yes, the loss to San Jose the year before Chicago where Kipper had played 76 regular season games, the most on his career to that point, and got pulled in Game 3 and 7 after terrible starts, and he had a 3.27 gaa in the playoffs, over .6 more goals per game. Again, how to argue that you can't see how starting all but 6 games in 9 months of hockey can catch up at some point when you start playing every second night in high stakes and high stress playoffs,wjth the pressure on you as a premier goalie in the league?