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Originally Posted by Jimdon
I didnt attend the game, but what i'm gathering is that our goalie that didn't care enough about his hockey career to go to a team that actually had a chance to win something didn't put in a spectacular effort into winning a game for the team that was easiest for him to collect his paycheck for without having to actually have to put in an actual effort, and the people who attended the game didn't appreciate him for that. Is that about the long and skinny of it? Or did our bottom of the league goaltender actually put in a botttom of the league effort and many of the fans that still live and die by the fact that he used to be an above average nhl goaltender took offense to calling a spade a spade?
When your starting goaltender decides that winning anything is less important than being comfortable with the rest of his career, right or wrong and you support him for that, you pretty much submit your right to criticize him for any less than inspired efforts for the rest of the season, no?
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It's an unknown source, not many people actually go to NHL.com to check the boxscore. As we can see here, Kipper only turned aside 39 of the 41 shots against, stopping 95 percent of the shost he faced. Clearly, this loss was Kippers fault. And the San Jose arena was jam-packed with Flames fans, and they all booed him when he won the 2nd star of the game, one star above Sharks goaltender, Niemi, who also put in a mediocre effort.
