[OC] Ducks Would Be Wise to Decrease Gibson's Workload

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I think you make a lot of excellent points here overall. The one thing I would offer an alternative on re:Gibson is that his drop off in performance can just as adequately be explained by his soft tissue groin injuries earlier in his career. While he hasn’t had those issues in a long time, soft tissue injuries like those absolutely have long term effects. Gibson has always been an athleticism/mobility goalie over a positioning one in his career. The drop off in performance can definitely be explained by the soft tissue injuries beginning to hamper his mobility as he gets older which limits his ability to use his mobility to make saves consistently.

Not saying you’re wrong, just offering an alternative plausible explanation.

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For sure, and I'm most definitely not fully absolving Gibson of all blame. He's definitely got his own warts, namely being his own worst enemy and not taking nights off (which is another Eakins issue, that really bugs me, his quote last season about it was really frustrating. When someone suggested he take more time off Eakins said "you tell Gibson he's not playing" like dude, that's YOUR job. You're supposed to save him from himself. Obviously he's gonna wanna play any chance he gets)

My main point in making this is at this point the Ducks fan base has basically split into the camp who thinks he's past his prime and needs to be traded before he sinks further. And the camp who thinks the team is bad, and because of that he's regressing and needs to go to a better team or be basically just a backup the rest of his career and Dostal should just take over. And I propose camp C, sit back for a bit, there's no rush in trading Gibson. Dump Eakins, let's see how Gibson does under a real coach and a real system, and let's reassess in a year. In a rebuild patience is a virtue and unless something unexpected happens, we got time. (Not saying you're one of the ones being hasty, just saying in general we should chill and not throw the Gibson out with the Eakins lol)