and what happens when we have a bad game defensively? We need a goalie that can make saves when needed, not more of the same, but more expensive.
and Gibson will do any better here?
Yes I feel Gibson will do better here, I think it's probably a fair assessment that any goalie playing behind a terrible D will do better behind one of the top D systems in the league. And yes, Knob/Coffey's system is that, it's simply becoming too hard to ignore the results.
I don't think the cost would be exorbinant either, the problem with Gibson in the past was always that he had a full NMC and the presumption was he wouldn't waive to go from sunny California to Edmonton. But now we have word that he would waive for Edmonton.
If you can get 50% retention I would consider it. Anaheim is better off finding someone who will take half his salary rather than paying 100% of it because Dostal is likely going to be their guy for the future and need a big raise himself.
Goaltending is the no.1 thing keeping us from a Cup, it's the no.1 thing that evens the playing field for teams hoping to beat us. Florida beat us because 3 freebie wins to start the series largely on the back of a goaltending disparity, it took 7 games to beat Vancouver because Skinner crapped the bed.