Welcome back to another edition of Throwback Thursday!
This week in 2013 (Sept. 9), Calgary Flames goalie Mikka Kiprusoff announced his retirement from the NHL.
He left the organization as the franchise leader in games played by a goalie (576), wins (305) and shutouts (41).
Originally acquired by the Flames on Nov. 16, 2003 for a second round pick in 2005 (used to draft Marc-Edouard Vlasic), Kiprusoff was relative nobody at the time. While he posted some good numbers in the AHL in the years prior, at 27 years old he only had 47 games with an unimpressive 14-21-3 record and a .