Posts About "Miikka Kiprusoff"
3 Best Calgary Flames to Never Win a Stanley Cup
June 3rd, 2020 It has been a long time since Calgary Flames fans have seen their team win the Stanley Cup. In fact, with their only championship being in 1989, many of their current fans weren't even been born to witness it. It hasn’t all been bad, as they have had some great teams and individual players over the years, but they have not yet been...
Top 3 All-Time Flames Goalies
February 10th, 2020 The goaltending history of the Calgary Flames franchise has been punctuated by a handful of excellent performances in a desert of otherwise unremarkable ones. In an effort to separate the wheat from the chaff, here are the three best goaltenders in the history of the Flames franchise. 3. Dan Bouchard Dan Bouchard (Hockey Hall of...
Flames Need to Replace Kiprusoff's Reliability
December 10th, 2019 Over the course of nine seasons with the Calgary Flames, Miikka Kiprusoff was a steady and reliable goaltender; a talent that has been unseen in Calgary since his retirement in 2013. Kiprusoff is the Flames' record-holder in wins (305), games played (576), shutouts (41), shots against (16,018), saves (14,631), save percentage (.913),...
5 Historic Trades That Ignited the Flames
September 13th, 2018 The Calgary Flames were busy this offseason addressing some key concerns via trades, ultimately changing the teams' outlook heading into the 2018-19 season. Optimism is on the rise in Calgary and the right trades can do that for an organization. While it's still too early to tell how these recent deals will turn out for Calgary, let's...
Trade Revisited: Vlasic for Kiprusoff
November 15th, 2017 The Background of the Marc-Edouard Vlasic Trade Throughout most of his career in San Jose, Miikka Kiprusoff lurked in the shadow of Evgeni Nabokov in the Sharks' crease. During his tenure, the Finnish netminder never started more than 22 games in teal in a single season and held inconsistent numbers over the course of his three...
Roman Turek: Where Is He Now?
September 26th, 2017 This article was originally published in February, 2013. During his time in the NHL, Roman Turek was a man of many masks and roles, but the Czech netminder never failed to live up to the standards of a consummate professional. Whether he was playing for the Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues, or Calgary Flames, Turek never forgot his duties...
Calgary Flames Goalie Carousel
August 16th, 2017 Mikka Kiprusoff's nine-year stint as the best goalie in Calgary Flames history ended on April 23, 2013, a 4-3 loss to the Nashville Predators. This prosaic bookend to his 12-year NHL career was his 14th loss of the 2012-2013 season; versus eight wins. He had posted his lowest save percentage (.822) since the 2002-2003 season - where he...
Next Flames Numbers to be Retired
July 27th, 2017 The Calgary Flames are a team with an understated amount of history. Joining the National Hockey League in 1972-73 as the Atlanta Flames, the club has been part of the league for parts of five decades and in Calgary for nearly 40 years. Despite boasting a roster that has featured numerous Hockey Hall of Fame inductees over the years, the...
Top 10 Flames Goalies of All-Time
January 27th, 2017 Chad Johnson and Brian Elliott would probably testify that it isn't easy to be a goalie for the Calgary Flames. After all, only nine goalies have played more than 100 games for the Flames since they came to Calgary in 1980 and the team has missed the playoffs in 14 of the 36 seasons they have been in the NHL. During their history, the...
Are Johnson's Nomadic Days Over?
December 4th, 2016 On November 16, 2003, the Calgary Flames acquired 27-year-old Finnish netminder Miikka Kiprusoff from the San Jose Sharks. It was a marriage of convenience for all involved. The Sharks got a draft pick in exchange for their third-string goaltender – playing behind Vesa Toskala and Evgeni Nabokov – while the Flames got a goaltender to...
The Calgary Flames Franchise Four
August 22nd, 2015 The Franchise Four. The Mount Rushmore. Four players who tell the story of an organization. In this series I'll be taking a look at the history of all 30 NHL squads. For criteria, I'm choosing one forward, defenceman, goaltender and a wild card from any position. Since moving from Atlanta to Calgary in 1980, the Flames have spent 35...
Miikka Kiprusoff Retires
September 9th, 2013 What was long-rumoured became fact on Monday morning, as the Calgary Flames announced that long-time netminder Miikka Kiprusoff has retired. The 36-year-old Finn entered the NHL during the 2000-01 season after being drafted by the San Jose Sharks in the fifth round of the 1995 Entry Draft. Other goalies taken before Kiprusoff in...
Save Us Karri Ramo, You're Our Only Hope
September 9th, 2013 "I don't have to tell you things are bad...everybody knows things are bad." - Howard Beale, from the 1976 movie Network. The upcoming 2013/2014 season is going to be a very interesting one for the Calgary Flames. And not "Sriracha sauce on a different type of food" interesting, but closer to the "Oh God, what did my dog...
