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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Sutter himself has disputed this. He readily admitted that he didn't believe he was getting even SJ's best goalie, and Kiprusiff was never at the time meant to be anything more than a stop-gap. So, in a way, he kind of did have Kiprusoff handed to him.
It was a tremendous trade, but Sutter most definitely got lucky.
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while this may be true, what I also know (I drove from Edm to Cgy the day the Kipper trade went down and listened to 960 most of that day) was that Sutter was pretty emphatic (in part speaking through Peter Maher) that the Flames had acquire a damn good goalie, of that he seemed pretty sure
so maybe he got lucky, first in the sense that he was stuck needing and being allowed to get a goalie (period) but also maybe b/c San Jose was so deep in net he couldn't go wrong, but he knew he was getting a good player