I've wanted to see what Gibson could do on a better team. If Anaheim takes 50% (which they likely won't) I'd listen.
I think they'd consider retaining so long as they got something useful back. We're not talking anything too high end either, I think a really good role player (for example good PKer, faceoff guy) would do it. Although they'd have to figure out a new backup solution for Dostal, as Suchanek getting hurt kind of screwed their immediate depth.
Isn’t Gibson legitimately bad now ?
He's only played a couple games this year due to injury, but looked pretty good so far. Sample size is very small though. Might want to wait and see if he's really back.
It's been hard to really judge him the last few years given the team in front of him ... they've not been "normal" bad defensively, they've genuinely been historically bad.
There's certainly risk there at full salary, but with retention it's not a big risk at all.
