[Rumour] Kipper is Retiring

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

I love it when out of the blue someone drives the crazy bus head-long into an entire thread.

i like the crazee bus. it gots pilows and blankets and colur coordinated seat belts. plus u can post there in crayon.

OK, I agree, Kiprusoff's play fell off last year faster than the quality of this thread. He seemed to have hit a wall big-time, and very few goalies come back from such a bad year at his age. He's hit that point in life where your reflexes normally start to slow down, and that's particularly bad news for his style of goaltending.

That said, I don't see what he's ever done to deserve a moral lecture from Frank Burns.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Fusebox

Provide proof that he was smoking the year he won the Vezina.

Nazim Kadri skates like the wind and was almost a point a game player for the Leafs last season and is a pack and a half a day man.

[polak]

Originally Posted by Fusebox

I must admit that I was amazed to hear that Wideman is a smoker. Is smoking really that prevalent amongst NHLers? I always thought that it was so hard to make it as a professional hockey player just strictly in terms of the fitness level required, never mind skill, that none of them would every risk their career with such a needless habit.

They're hockey players, not part of The Avengers.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Fusebox

People can smoke all they like, that is their business. However, when I'm paying good money to see an athlete perform, I expect them to be in the best possible shape that they can be. Is it unreasonable to for me to expect an athlete who makes millions of dollars not to intentionally harm his own level of fitness?

If I was an athlete and you came up to me dictating how I should live my life chances are you'd be eating corn on the cob without any teeth.

[getbak]

And, it's official: http://flames.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=681811

[miraisoup]

Now I hyperventilate lol.