Kipper sighting!

[squiggs96]

Originally Posted by nik-

Miikka Kiprusoff buys art at Southcentre Mall?

Please tell me the store was "Where it's Art"

I'm guessing Editions Gallery.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by dustygoon

That hokey twitter feed that may or may not have been Kippers....didn't it say "big news coming" a day or two ago?

The fake twitter's big news was the flames letting the goalie coach go

[Tyler]

Miikka Kiprusoff ‏@MKiprusoff 1m
I stated 2 days ago I would not be taking the Flames job.

[Kipru]

Kipper has been seen in a news on finnish Yle teletext stating that he starts as a goaltending coach for Finnish U-20 National team.

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Henry Fool

You sure it's real? The Finnish in those early tweets reads like bad automatic translation.

Maybe Niemenen is writing the tweets?

[FakenHaken]

Report: Miikka Kiprusoff to coach Finland's U-20 goaltenders http://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/526060 via @theScore

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

Maybe Niemenen is writing the tweets?

Hospital hockey

[Ruttiger]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

In all seriousness, though, I wonder how many people throw things at him just to see what happens...

Probably none. That would be stupid.

[Ruttiger]

Originally Posted by Itse

I would imagine that retired goalies stop playing goal because they've pretty much conditioned themselves mentally to want to stop every puck. Giving up goals, especially ones that used to be easy stops, probably gets on their nerves way too much. That, or they feel too responsible of their teams success.

Much more relaxing to play another position.

This. Never got near the NHL but I did play some junior, and after you've aged and shots get by you with more regularity that you would have stopped in your sleep in younger days, a switch to a new position offers a welcome change and some freshness to the game.

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by Ruttiger

This. Never got near the NHL but I did play some junior, and after you've aged and shots get by you with more regularity that you would have stopped in your sleep in younger days, a switch to a new position offers a welcome change and some freshness to the game.

byron dafoe was over at my place a while back (we were doing up some jackets for his kid's hockey team... or something like that) and we chatted a bunch about a lot of stuff. he plays in the men's league here is kelowna, but plays forward. i asked him why he doesn't put the pads back on and he said for 2 main reasons...
1 - his knees are toast
2 - he found in the past (after retiring) that a lot of guys were idiots when shooting on him. he figured he has a nothing to prove so he just plays out now.

i think my favourite part of him coming over was when i showed him the jerseys my men's team wears and he checked out of the back of my goalie jersey and said, "sweet.... you also wear 34!" to which replied with a cough/"kipper". he just looked at me and started laughing!