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Originally Posted by Yamer
2006 Vezina Trophy.
No other Flames goaltender was considered the best in the game, especially when leading teams no where near the quality of rosters as the 1989 Flames and 1997 Red Wings. Give Kiprusoff those teams and I guarantee he wins just as many rounds.
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While Kipper never had teams as stacked, as some of Vernon 's teams, he was on teams that were expected to go deep or at least win a round, and they never did. Aside from 2004, Flames tend to underachieve or, at least, never overachieve with Kipper. That goes not only for playoffs, but for regular seasons as well, with 2006 season may be the only exception, and even that is debatable. His reputation of a goalie who makes his team overachieve is based solely on 2004 playoffs. It was an outlier.