LeBrun: Carolina has talked to Anaheim about Gibson; "...the price is going to have to come down..."

[WhatTheDuck]

Martin becomes expendable. Expiring contract.

Freddie may have to part of a trade, depending on his recovery timeline. Also expiring.

Yeah one of those should work, Freddie I guess would have to be returned healthy and willing to waive his NTC. For cap purposes he'd surely make more sense. Would be some neat irony if him and Gibby were traded for each other.

 

[12ozPapa]

If Gibson gets traded, his new team will be very happy with him.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Anaheim has got to be the stupidest team on planet Earth. The idiocy of that franchise just continues to astound me.

They seem to building a promising young team. Sure, they suck now, but their younger players are surrounded by more experienced players which should help as they take over.

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

They seem to building a promising young team. Sure, they suck now, but their younger players are surrounded by more experienced players which should help as they take over.

Lol you need to watch a ducks game. Our veterans are worse than our rookies

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Haha. Why exactly do we need to sell low on Gibson?

When was the last time you could sell high on him?

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Avalanche got a goalie with better stats at a lower asking price. Not many contending teams need goalies as most teams contending have established goalies.

We don't know the asking price.

Lol you need to watch a ducks game. Our veterans are worse than our rookies

I'm not saying they are great or good players, but you don't want to surround promising young players with AHL call-ups. It doesn't work well for development.

 

[TheNewEra]

Wait you want Forsberg

Deal

 

[OilersFanatics505]

We don't know the asking price.


I'm not saying they are great or good players, but you don't want to surround promising young players with AHL call-ups. It doesn't work well for development.

Asking price had to be more than what was paid for than ‘wood or they would have taken the historically better goalie.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Asking price had to be more than what was paid for than ‘wood or they would have taken the historically better goalie.

Wood has been pretty good this year.

 

[OilersFanatics505]

Wood has been pretty good this year.

Going into the trade they had the same stats.

 

[dirtydanglez]

it's time to move on. get what you can and let the player get on with his career

 

[tarheelhockey]

If somebody wants Gibson they have to want him more than Anaheim needs him.

Serious question — how does Anaheim need Gibson? He turns 32 this summer, still has 3.5 years left at a sizable cap hit, hasn’t put up a strong season since before COVID. He can’t be part of the long term plans for the Ducks.

I understand and expect that Anaheim will want a meaningful future building block if they’re asked to pay salary on him going forward. But “we need this player” seems like a bit of a disingenuous stance, at least from the outside looking in.

 

[MessierII]

Well, yeah. Avs were presumably a suitor that probably found the price for Blackwood more appealing. Doesn't that reinforce my point? If the same happens to Carolina and it keeps happening, Anaheim either lowers the price or keeps him. If they lower it, they could've just done that to begin with.

Or avoided the whole situation and traded him years ago when they were starting to rebuild and he was still pretty good.

 

[PenderB]

Are we talking about the same Gibson they hasn’t hit sub 3 GAA since 2021? And above a .906 since 2019? I just want to make sure in case I’m looking at the wrong Gibson?

We are but lets be fair. Anaheim has been a rebuilding team for several years now, I would rather hear hear from people who have watched him and not just looking at stats. I for one haven't really watched him so who knows. But based on stats you're right he would be a cap dump

 

[oobga]

Would rather it not be Carolina, but I am very curious to see Gibson on a good team.

 

[tomd]

We are but lets be fair. Anaheim has been a rebuilding team for several years now, I would rather hear hear from people who have watched him and not just looking at stats. I for one haven't really watched him so who knows. But based on stats you're right he would be a cap dump

Gibson is playing much better this year and his stats reflect that. He was unlucky last night with 2-3 goals coming off deflections from his own teammates.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Serious question — how does Anaheim need Gibson? He turns 32 this summer, still has 3.5 years left at a sizable cap hit, hasn’t put up a strong season since before COVID. He can’t be part of the long term plans for the Ducks.

I understand and expect that Anaheim will want a meaningful future building block if they’re asked to pay salary on him going forward. But “we need this player” seems like a bit of a disingenuous stance, at least from the outside looking in.

Reading that more charitably, the team trading for Gibson needs to give something Anaheim needs. What that is might be exactly be what you said. This depends on how much emphasis you put on "want him more" and ""Anaheim needs him." I didn't read that post as Anaheim really needs him.

 

[JKG33]

I know you're here because your Gibson google alert went off telling you to come make the same post ten times in this thread like usual (seriously your obsession is downright bizarre, it's 20% of your posting on this site on one player who's team you don't follow, dude should consider a restraining order). An ounce of logic suggests that the Ducks aren't receiving a better goalie in return unless the other team is brain-dead.

Leave him alone, he thinks his spreadsheet makes him a goalie whisperer

 

[TheFinalWord]

They need him to some degree.

If he is moved they are closer to the cap floor and then are restricted in any other dealing they could want. After paying up for Trouba to get a little breathing room I don’t think they’d just give that away free.

It also dominos a bit into the next season if they want to bring some youth up, as they have little cap hits.

If somebody wants Gibson they have to want him more than Anaheim needs him.

There is never an issue finding a contract to take on to get to the cap floor. The cap floor is never an issue.

 

[canuckslover10]

John Gibson could have had one of the better careers if he was traded like 5 years ago.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

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Friedman also mentions Gibson, noting that the Canes may have been close up to multiple occasions in the past.

Just a little more smoke.

 

[Emerald Duck]

The problem is his 10 team no trade clause list. DO we know who is on that list?

The problem with these trade rumors is that no one knows what the Ducks are asking for, what the Canes or other teams are offering, and the details about Gibson's NTC. We don't know if Gibson has asked for a trade even as some hockey insiders insisted that Gibson had played his last game for Anaheim last year.

As pointed out many times, Gibson helps the Ducks with their cap floor and helps Dostal with his game load. We don't have to trade him. He is expensive as a backup or a 1B starter, but the situation is manageable for the Ducks. We don't have to move him for a cap dump backup and more late round picks when our organization is full of prospects. There is no information to suggest that Gibson is a locker room problem or a disrputive figure.

If we can accomondate Gibson and the move helps the Ducks then I'm sure management will pursue it, but just to move him to help solve another team's problem doesn't help us.

 

[JKG33]

I don't see Carolina as a fit. Gibson seems too much like big game hunting, which the Canes usually avoid. Even Freddy seemed like too big of a name but he came in at a reasonable cap hit and didn't cost any assets. I think they browse the bargain bin and hope their guys figure it out by April.

The team I'm shocked isn't all over Gibson is Detroit. He fits in their age, and they should be desperate for a good goalie. Husso blows. Talbot is a backup that's spent the last 10 years somehow convincing teams he's a starter, and every year someone falls for it. Lyon is good for about 20 games a year until he's either hurt or his play falls off. They should make a trade like COL & SJ just did, where Husso plays the role of Georgiev

 

[Stephen]

Feels like the time to get a haul on John Gibson may have passed. He's like an old eBay listing with a very high buy now price and just never going to move.

Ideally he would have been moved a few years ago, giving him a fresh start on a contender, allowing Anaheim to bring in more youth, tank a little harder... but Anaheim has drafted up a prospect pool, Gibson is into his 30s and it's like they passed the action by date.

 

[tomd]

Feels like the time to get a haul on John Gibson may have passed. He's like an old eBay listing with a very high buy now price and just never going to move.

Ideally he would have been moved a few years ago, giving him a fresh start on a contender, allowing Anaheim to bring in more youth, tank a little harder... but Anaheim has drafted up a prospect pool, Gibson is into his 30s and it's like they passed the action by date.

All of this is true...until a team with SC aspirations needs a goalie and decides that Gibson is the goalie they need. Then it breaks down. Will that ever happen? TBD.