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The only way we ever trade John Gibson is if Lukas Dostal proves he's so good that he can replace him and not a moment sooner. No rebuild is even worth it if we don't have a foundational goalie to build around. Also, we'd never get that kind of return. Teams simply don't trade elite starters nor do they mortgage so much for a goalie.
Also, when has a full-blown rebuild ever worked? Can anyone point to recent Stanley Cup champions and say they got there because they blew it all up once and built a winner from the ashes? If anything most Cup teams have had generation talent selected with the first or second pick (Crosby, Malkin, Ovechkin, Kane, Toews, Hedman, Stamkos, Doughty) and they got those players from being really bad for one season and getting lucky. We've been awful for three straight seasons and are about to draft another stud to go along with our last two so maybe we should focus on cutting the dead weight and letting our good players help turn this thing around.