Mikka's glory days

[djsFlames]

03-06 he was best on the planet-good.

[Propagandist]

We would be sc favorites if he was on our right now in his primo.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

To this day I still think Kiprusoff's play in games 5 and 6 of the Detroit series in 04 is the best goaltending I will see from a Flames goaltender. The Flames won 3 of 4 games with a defence of Regehr second year Leopold and Andrew Ference pretty much having to play 40 minutes each. The Flames had no business being in that series let alone winning it.

Ill never forget the way he shut the door after going down 4-0 to Vancouver in game 6 (I think). He was just stone cold and you could see it in his face that he was just like "nope, not again."

Van ended up winning in triple overtime, but it was still an unbelievable performance.

[Saqe]

I grew up watching Miikka when he played for my hometown team, TPS. He came into the league and I remember thinking this guy will never be any good, weak glove and just weak all over the place.



We had two really good goalies at that point in Jani Hurme and Fredrik Norrena (and team- TPS won 5 championships in the 90's) so he went to Sweden for a couple of years. When he came back he looked completely different. I still wonder that happened during those two years in Sweden, he looked amazing and dominated the Liiga the year he came back.



I always thought he didn't get a fair shot in SJ because of Nabokov. He was the most dominant goalie I've ever seen play in the Liiga (and the reason why TPS won in 1999) so I thought it would be just a matter of time before he would be a starter in the nhl.


And yeah, he's the reason I'm a Flames fan. heh

[Nadal Fan]

No doubt in my mind he should be in the Hall of Fame. And certainly needs his jersey hanging from the rafters, why hasn't this happened yet??

[Toonage]

Great article but I had always heard Sutter really wanted Toskala and when he wasn't available from SJ he "settled" on Kipper.

Crazy if true.

[GioforPM]

Funny - for all those years we had a stud number one and couldn't find a decent backup to lighten his load at all. Now here we are with a failing number one and seemingly a really good backup.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Funny - for all those years we had a stud number one and couldn't find a decent backup to lighten his load at all. Now here we are with a failing number one and seemingly a really good backup.

Its the nature of the game.

We also had one of the best wingers in the game for years and couldnt find him a decent centre to play with and now we've got real depth down the middle and are floundering for RW help.

Just remember the Flames Fan Mantra:

[Northendzone]

the one thing that stood out for me from the 2004 playoff run, was how it seemed that everytime kipper had a bad game, he would follow it up by being incredible.

and by bad game, I mean a good game for an ordinary goalie

I tried to practice the scorpion with my son; however, my son complained about pucks hitting the back of his legs. I told him to quit being a snowflake and that is why he will never be in the show