With the Flames heading into this season with a seemingly competent, perhaps even quite good goaltending tandem of Brian Elliott and Chad Johnson, as well as some prospects in the pipeline with promise like Jon Gillies and Tyler Parsons, optimism about goaltending for the Calgary Flames is the highest it has been in years. All this positivity led me to reminiscing about our former staple of comfort, Miikka Kiprusoff.
What a guy. The cool, calm, collected Finn was the backbone of the Flames for years. Combined with the fact he rarely had a competent goaltender backing him up and the matter that he was very good, he was literally “the Goalie” for the Flames for almost a decade.