Finland playing-Kipper getting a tan in Hawaii

It was reported in todays Iltasanomat that Miika Kiprusoff is vacationing in Hawaii during the Olympic break. This guy is making it awfully hard to like him.. If he's so damn injured shouldn't he be rahabbing in Calgary during the break??? :madfire:

Unless he suddenly breaks his leg or something in Hawaii, then I don't see what's the problem. Kipper should only stay in Calgary if he just physically cannot move or has a 4-6 week injury. Which isn't the case. I don't think it's a problem to rehab and vacation at the same time.

nhl players are not allowed to use the nhl team's training facility during olympic break .

may as well re-hab in hawaii if you are making good coin -I know I would :innocent:

Link?

It was reported in todays Iltasanomat that Miika Kiprusoff is vacationing in Hawaii during the Olympic break. This guy is making it awfully hard to like him.. If he's so damn injured shouldn't he be rahabbing in Calgary during the break??? :madfire:

It's called resting the hip, not rehabbing it. He has an inflamed hip. You can't do any rehab on it, just let it heal. They stick him full of injections during the season to keep it from getting worse. If he went to Turin there wouldn't have been good enough doctors and other staff to keep the inflammation down. That and the whole disclosure thing.

Give it up already.

It was reported in todays Iltasanomat that Miika Kiprusoff is vacationing in Hawaii during the Olympic break. This guy is making it awfully hard to like him.. If he's so damn injured shouldn't he be rahabbing in Calgary during the break??? :madfire:

I understand kipper shopuld have made finland a gold candidate, but I'd say get over it. what's done is done. Sweden with the loss of norstrom is looking as bad injury vise.

Link?

http://calsun.canoe.ca/Sports/Hockey/2006/02/14/1441519-sun.html

I understand kipper shopuld have made finland a gold candidate, but I'd say get over it. what's done is done. Sweden with the loss of norstrom is looking as bad injury vise.


I second that....

If a player does not want to play for his country - you don't want him on your team.

I second that....

If a player does not want to play for his country - you don't want him on your team.

But an injury is an injury. You don't want an injured player even more.

I understand kipper shopuld have made finland a gold candidate, but I'd say get over it. what's done is done. Sweden with the loss of norstrom is looking as bad injury vise.

Practically every Swede on these boards is fuming about the fact that the Flyers are trying to keep Forsberg from playing. Should you guys get over that? I'm just saying that when national pride is in question you don't always think rationally..

Practically every Swede on these boards is fuming about the fact that the Flyers are trying to keep Forsberg from playing. Should you guys get over that? I'm just saying that when national pride is in question you don't always think rationally..

Ok i have been upset over the forsberg situation, but i realized he isn't going to play unless he feels 100% so I dont have high hopes anymore.

call me a hypocrite if you want ;)

Practically every Swede on these boards is fuming about the fact that the Flyers are trying to keep Forsberg from playing. Should you guys get over that? I'm just saying that when national pride is in question you don't always think rationally..

I'm not fuming about it. The club can't stop him. What are they gonna do? Tear his contract? PLayers like Forsberg doesn't need the NHL anymore more than the teams need him. It's his call. Perhaps, now with hindsight he should've stayed @ with his injuries, but bottom line is he can't be stopped by Snider. The same goes for Kipper. What's Sutter going to do if Kipper says he wants to play olympics? Bench him the rest o the season? Kipper will still collect his paycheck. Plus, Kipper is more imporant to CGY than vice versa.

But an injury is an injury. You don't want an injured player even more.
If he can play high intensity NHL games, in which he faces about 5-10 shots more with almost double the skating to clear the puck etc, it doesn't sound like an injury is the reason he is staying away to me....

I understand kipper shopuld have made finland a gold candidate, but I'd say get over it.I would be pretty mad if the star of my countrys team was too injured to play in the olympics, and yet has played the 2nd most games in the NHL for goalies, behind only Luongo.

It sort of makes me mad too. The more quality teams in the tournament, the better the quality of hockey. Kiprusoff is arguably the best goalie in the world. If he's too injured to play in the olympics, why is he starting more games than every other goalie in the NHL save for 1?

Smart guy. Hope he gets a tan, he's a little bit too white.

It was reported in todays Iltasanomat that Miika Kiprusoff is vacationing in Hawaii during the Olympic break. This guy is making it awfully hard to like him.. If he's so damn injured shouldn't he be rahabbing in Calgary during the break??? :madfire:

Have you ever been to Calgary? I'd vacation in Hawaii as often as I could if I was forced to live in Calgary during the year.

Kipper went to hawaii for some pineapple, he needs the rest trust me, being the most played goalie so far this year.

It was reported in todays Iltasanomat that Miika Kiprusoff is vacationing in Hawaii during the Olympic break. This guy is making it awfully hard to like him.. If he's so damn injured shouldn't he be rahabbing in Calgary during the break??? :madfire:

Or if he was so damn injured, shouldn't he not be leading the league in games played?

Have you ever been to Calgary? I'd vacation in Hawaii as often as I could if I was forced to live in Calgary during the year.You picked a really bad time to make this comment. We are heading into our worst cold snap of the year. Thanks for rubbing it in.

I don't buy how he can play for Calgary every single game but still be too injured to represent his country at the highest level.

It smacks of disrespect to me, but now I'm wishing Hasek had done the same thing, damnit.

You get a two week vacation and you stay in ice-cold Calgary?


Um... no?

You get a two week vacation and you stay in ice-cold Calgary?


Um... no?
Exactly

Plus, there's something in the Hawaii water that heals his hip better. :propeller

I wonder if this was an all expenses paid trip by the Flames?

It was reported in todays Iltasanomat that Miika Kiprusoff is vacationing in Hawaii during the Olympic break. This guy is making it awfully hard to like him.. If he's so damn injured shouldn't he be rahabbing in Calgary during the break??? :madfire:

Why does he have to rehab in Calgary? Why can't he do it in Hawaii?

If you lived in Calgary, you would want to get out whenever you could as well.

This is just the typical Finnish jealousy, let the man rehab in where ever he wants to.

I'm not fuming about it. The club can't stop him. What are they gonna do? Tear his contract? PLayers like Forsberg doesn't need the NHL anymore more than the teams need him. It's his call. Perhaps, now with hindsight he should've stayed @ with his injuries, but bottom line is he can't be stopped by Snider. The same goes for Kipper. What's Sutter going to do if Kipper says he wants to play olympics? Bench him the rest o the season? Kipper will still collect his paycheck. Plus, Kipper is more imporant to CGY than vice versa.


[ Plus, Kipper is more imporant to CGY than vice versa]
hehe ya.in the nhl let me tell you no one player is greater than the team.

I don't buy how he can play for Calgary every single game but still be too injured to represent his country at the highest level.

It smacks of disrespect to me, but now I'm wishing Hasek had done the same thing, damnit.
His injury is not his hip, it is the lack of something that should be in his chest, and what should beat for his country.

He's like the lion in the wizard of the oz. Except he never had that heart that lion thought he didn't have, and that not having a heart should disqualify him from being a lion.

This is just the typical Finnish jealousy, let the man rehab in where ever he wants to.

Umm no.. I all for Kipper spending the whole off-season in Hawaii if he want's to. Hawaii's a beautiful place, i've vacationed there twice myself. It's just that when you're healthy enough to play every game for your NHL team and decide to vacation in Hawaii instead of reprisenting you're country in the Olympics, it doesn't look good.

Where's all the hate for Scott Niedermayer ?? He's been playing all season. Just because he had surgery and Kiprusoff didn't, that makes Niedermayer's injury valid? :dunno:

GET OVER IT !! MIIKKA KIPRUSOFF IS INJURED !!

Where's all the hate for Scott Niedermayer ?? He's been playing all season. Just because he had surgery and Kiprusoff didn't, that makes Niedermayer's injury valid? :dunno:

GET OVER IT !! MIIKKA KIPRUSOFF IS INJURED !!

Agreed.

Miikka Needs to rest and there is no better place to do that than Hawaii, where he isnt known to public.

Agreed.

Miikka Needs to rest and there is no better place to do that than Hawaii, where he isnt known to public.

dude could vacation almost anywhere in the world and people wouldn't be able to recognize him.

His injury is not his hip, it is the lack of something that should be in his chest, and what should beat for his country.

He's like the lion in the wizard of the oz. Except he never had that heart that lion thought he didn't have, and that not having a heart should disqualify him from being a lion.

This coming from a Swede. :shakehead

You should be happy that Kipper isn't playing because this means Sweden now has a chance at beating Finland.

This coming from a Swede. :shakehead

You should be happy that Kipper isn't playing because this means Sweden now has a chance at beating Finland.
I am a friggin finn!

I am a friggin finn!

My mistake, I figured not too many Finns would display the Sweden flag, even if that is their current location.

Whether you're Finn or not you're dead wrong about Kipper.

My mistake, I figured not too many Finns would display the Sweden flag, even if that is their current location.

Whether you're Finn or not you're dead wrong about Kipper.
Nah. He's proven it time after time with the national team :)

dude could vacation almost anywhere in the world and people wouldn't be able to recognize him.

Your point is?

Let me clear mine. Calgary and i bet Canada is a place where he cant blend in to public, so is Scandinavia/north Europe. These two places are consider to be his home, so Hawaii is optional place to go where he can relax.

Nah. He's proven it time after time with the national team :)

Well then I guess you can thank him for the World Cup silver medal. Because we all know that without him, not even close to a medal for Finland in the World Cup.

Why would he play in the World Cup? Someone from the Finnish Hockey Federation must have threatened him, no? That my theory. It seems everyone and their dog is allowed to spew crap about the Flames and Kiprusoff without knowing the facts.

Two can play that game. :D

The reason Miikka Kiprusoff did not go to the Olympics is because Team Finland threatened his family for him to play the World Cup. Kipper has since moved his family away from Finland so that when he decides not to play for the Olympic team, the Finnish Hockey Federation will not have his family killed.

Your point is?

Let me clear mine. Calgary and i bet Canada is a place where he cant blend in to public, so is Scandinavia/north Europe. These two places are consider to be his home, so Hawaii is optional place to go where he can relax.

i bet most canadians outside of the Calgary area wouldn't be able to recognize him w/out his mask on... i would be bet most people outside of Finland/Calgary don't know what he looks like due to the whole mask aspect of his public appearances. unless you're paying very close attention to Hockey, goalies are largely anonymous characters (a problem that Football players have in America...).

i bet most canadians outside of the Calgary area wouldn't be able to recognize him w/out his mask on... i would be bet most people outside of Finland/Calgary don't know what he looks like due to the whole mask aspect of his public appearances. unless you're paying very close attention to Hockey, goalies are largely anonymous characters (a problem that Football players have in America...).

I'd bet you're wrong. Kiprusoff's face is more familiar to people as he always takes his mask off between whistles and after goals. I'd wager that 90% of hockeyfans in Canada would recognize him.

i bet most canadians outside of the Calgary area wouldn't be able to recognize him w/out his mask on... i would be bet most people outside of Finland/Calgary don't know what he looks like due to the whole mask aspect of his public appearances. unless you're paying very close attention to Hockey, goalies are largely anonymous characters (a problem that Football players have in America...).

I cant believe we're getting in to an argument of how well known Kipper is. well let me brake it to you, he's a nobody, ok?
if you could understand my real point i wouldnt have to type this.

The reason Miikka Kiprusoff did not go to the Olympics is because Team Finland threatened his family for him to play the World Cup. Kipper has since moved his family away from Finland so that when he decides not to play for the Olympic team, the Finnish Hockey Federation will not have his family killed.More probably, he's injured.

I believe he is injured because no one would not want to represent their country. Why would he stay in Calgary during the coldest time of year? He has money, go somewhere that is warm, every tropical resort I have been to (which is a lot) have gym's, if they are big, and nice. I guess Kipper stays at a place that has top of the line facilities and he is doing exactly what his boss and doctor subscribed.

Good for him, look at Hasek. How happy would people be if he played the first period of a game and left with an injury then couldn't play for a few weeks in the stretch drive. I for one with Pronger and Smyth get little ice time, Smyth most likely will get little time but not Pronger, he will play every PP and PK, I hope he doesn't get hurt and would be choked if he did.

If I was from calgary I would be happy that Kipper didn't go, and as an edmonton fan, I am mad that he didn't go.

Wish I could join him in Hawaii.

If you lived in Calgary, you would want to get out whenever you could as well.Have you ever been to Calgary?

I heard that Kipper backed out of playing because with Aki Berg on defense he wouldn't have much work to do and would rather sit on a beach than stand around doing nothing.

I cant believe we're getting in to an argument of how well known Kipper is. well let me brake it to you, he's a nobody, ok?
if you could understand my real point i wouldnt have to type this.

wasn't saying he's a nobody... just not recognizable outside of his name, and he doesn't need to go to Hawaii to avoid recognition.

I'd bet you're wrong. Kiprusoff's face is more familiar to people as he always takes his mask off between whistles and after goals. I'd wager that 90% of hockeyfans in Canada would recognize him.

see, you're changing the situation... just walking around would be the issue for someone in terms of being recognized being a problem. now, obviously a large % of the canadian population are hockey fans compared to other areas, but clearly you can toss out ANYONE who doesn't follow hockey.

then, within the group of hockey fans, i question (based on an understanding of how horrible we are as humans at identifying individuals that we see in passing...) anyone that isn't paying really close attention on a regular basis recognizing a guy that spends 95% of his publicly exposed time (a game) with a mask covering his entire face.

as noted above, bit of a silly argument... i was just commenting that he didn't need to go to Hawaii to avoid being recognized.

see, you're changing the situation... just walking around would be the issue for someone in terms of being recognized being a problem. now, obviously a large % of the canadian population are hockey fans compared to other areas, but clearly you can toss out ANYONE who doesn't follow hockey.

then, within the group of hockey fans, i question (based on an understanding of how horrible we are as humans at identifying individuals that we see in passing...) anyone that isn't paying really close attention on a regular basis recognizing a guy that spends 95% of his publicly exposed time (a game) with a mask covering his entire face.

as noted above, bit of a silly argument... i was just commenting that he didn't need to go to Hawaii to avoid being recognized.

he could have come to Toronto....we haven't been able to recognize a good goalie in a while.

he could have come to Toronto....we haven't been able to recognize a good goalie in a while.

:biglaugh: :biglaugh:

That was priceless!!

Who cares? Christ, let it go already.

His injury is not his hip, it is the lack of something that should be in his chest, and what should beat for his country.

He's like the lion in the wizard of the oz. Except he never had that heart that lion thought he didn't have, and that not having a heart should disqualify him from being a lion.



Psssssssssst, the Lion lacked courage in The Wizard of Oz ….. it was the Tin Man who lacked a heart.

Your point would be a tad more salient if your analogy was correct. ;)

The reason Miikka Kiprusoff did not go to the Olympics is because Team Finland threatened his family for him to play the World Cup. Kipper has since moved his family away from Finland so that when he decides not to play for the Olympic team, the Finnish Hockey Federation will not have his family killed.
More probably, he's injured.

I think Garfield was using humor/hyperbole to make a point ... ;)

He kinda looks like a lion.

I'd bet you're wrong. Kiprusoff's face is more familiar to people as he always takes his mask off between whistles and after goals. I'd wager that 90% of hockeyfans in Canada would recognize him.

Rick Tocchet, is that you?

;)

I'll tell you why he's in Hawaii

Temperature in Calgary today: -24C feels like -37C
In Fahrenhet (for you Americans): -11F feels like -33F

Temperature in Honolulu, Hawaii: +23C or 74F

I'd join him in Hawaii if I could because I live in Edmonton. Actually, I'm heading to California tomorrow so I get to avoid the cold for a week.

I'll tell you why he's in Hawaii

Temperature in Calgary today: -24C feels like -37C
In Fahrenhet (for you Americans): -11F feels like -33F

Temperature in Honolulu, Hawaii: +23C or 74F

I'd join him in Hawaii if I could because I live in Edmonton. Actually, I'm heading to California tomorrow so I get to avoid the cold for a week.Although I wont argue Calgary vs Hawaii, its misleading that you quote the coldest day of the year.

Just on sunday here it was 14 degrees C (57 degrees F), all of our days this month have been over 0 degrees (32 F) and over half were around 10 degrees (40s to 50s F).

Yes, its still Canada and has the potential to be cold, like now, but its not nearly as bad as some are assuming. And its supposed to be back around 0 (30s and 40s F) by the weekend.

There was no snow here prior to last night, no igloos, no dogsleds...

Kipper, just like all finns, is used to cold. Try not to forget that Finland has basically just as cold days as Canada, we get our share of -20C days and at times it's as high as -30C.

That said, I still have a hard time believing that he's even injured but in the end that doesn't matter. If he's injured, then he's better of resting, if he simply doesn't want to play for Finland, then it's best he's not playing.

He kinda looks like a lion.
Or Woogie from "There's something about Mary" :)

Umm no.. I all for Kipper spending the whole off-season in Hawaii if he want's to. Hawaii's a beautiful place, i've vacationed there twice myself. It's just that when you're healthy enough to play every game for your NHL team and decide to vacation in Hawaii instead of reprisenting you're country in the Olympics, it doesn't look good.


...who signs his paychecks every month? team finland...?

Let the guy re-hab, your just jealous.

I second that....

If a player does not want to play for his country - you don't want him on your team.
True enough. If he's that big an ingrate & that classless, screw him.

...who signs his paychecks every month? team finland...?
I dunno, which country did he grow up in as free as a bird & train him so that he was in a position to make stupid sums?

NHL Hockey rules:
1. A hockey player shall have no life, and never go in exotic place for vacation.

True enough. If he's that big an ingrate & that classless, screw him.
Some people really need to chill.

What is such a big deal if the guy doesn't want to play for his country. There are other eager people that'll fill his shoes.

I dunno, which country did he grow up in as free as a bird & train him so that he was in a position to make stupid sums?
Finland, Sweden, USA and Canada?

Or Woogie from "There's something about Mary" :)

Hahaha... yeah, him too.

Isn't Kiprusoff still a "one year wonder" as far as HF is concerned?

He certainly was EVEN AFTER he carried the Finns deep into the World Championships...

Why are we talking about a one hit wonder nobody? He was on a cinderella team, remember? He's the next Giguere, remember? The Flames had no place in the 2004 playoffs, remember?

:rolleyes:

Have you ever been to Calgary? I'd vacation in Hawaii as often as I could if I was forced to live in Calgary during the year.
Where do you live? :dunno: :shakehead

Calgary the last 10 winters or so is the second warmest major city in Canada, it's also the sunnyest. Figures i would write this on the first real cold snap of the winter :amazed:

Isn't Kiprusoff still a "one year wonder" as far as HF is concerned?

He certainly was EVEN AFTER he carried the Finns deep into the World Championships...

Why are we talking about a one hit wonder nobody? He was on a cinderella team, remember? He's the next Giguere, remember? The Flames had no place in the 2004 playoffs, remember?

:rolleyes:
:yo: ;)

Isn't Kiprusoff still a "one year wonder" as far as HF is concerned?

He certainly was EVEN AFTER he carried the Finns deep into the World Championships...

Why are we talking about a one hit wonder nobody? He was on a cinderella team, remember? He's the next Giguere, remember? The Flames had no place in the 2004 playoffs, remember?

:rolleyes:
:biglaugh: