Quoting: LGuy54
He is not a cap dump, ask anyone else on this site and they will agree with me
Group think doesn't cut it for me. I look at the facts and make my own decisions.
Quoting: LGuy54
Gibson is playing behind an awful defense, of course he is gonna do bad. If you put him on almost any other team he will be just fine.
That's simply not true though. The Ducks were good BECAUSE Gibson was good, now that he's not, they're not. The Ducks defense hasn't been much worse than the Oilers defense over the past 2 years, the Oilers have been a better team because they have better offense and better goaltending.
Look at how many shots the Ducks gave up each year and compare it with Gibson's save percentage:
2017-18: 33.1 SA/GP (26th in the NHL), Gibson's sv% was .926
2018-19: 33.2 (25th), Gibson .917
2019-20: 32.1 (21st), Gibson .904
2020-21: 30.6 (19th), Gibson .903
Notice how the team tightened up the past 2 seasons, yet Gibson's sv% tanked? Yeah, don't blame the defense. He just isn't stopping pucks with the same frequency that he used to.
We could look at 5v5 SA/60 to see if this pattern holds true:
2017-18: 31.11, Gibson .929 SV%
2018-19: 31.21, Gibson .929
2019-20: 31.60, Gibson .914
2020-21: 29.60, Gibson .918
Or even 5v5 HDCA/60:
2017-18: 11.55, Gibson .841 HDSV%
2018-19: 12.30, Gibson .852
2019-20: 11.68, Gibson .818
2020-21: 11.33, Gibson .808
Similar pattern here: the team isn't giving up more shots or more high danger shots, Gibson is simply not stopping as many of them as he used to.
Now for your assertion that Gibson would do better behind Edmonton's incredible defense corps (lol), lets ignore the changes Holland made this summer that everyone seems to love (lol) and look at the past 2 years to see how these teams compare.
2019-20
EDM: 32.00 SA/GP, 31.00 5V5 SA/60, 10.72 HDCA/60
ANA: 32.10 SA/GP, 31.60 5V5 SA/60, 11.68 HDCA/60
2020-21
EDM: 30.70 SA/GP, 30.10 5V5 SA/60, 10.05 HDCA/60
ANA: 30.60 SA/GP, 29.60 5V5 SA/60, 11.33 HDCA/60
It's not as far apart as most people think, Edmonton goalies actually faced more shots per game and more 5v5 shots than Anaheim goalies did last season. The Oilers were able to cut down on the number of High Danger shots they gave up, but still weren't in the top-half of the league in this area.
I'd say your analysis is almost entirely made based on reputation and you haven't been paying attention to the facts these past 2.5 years. Here, I'll show you:
All situations save percentage
16-17: .924
17-18: .926
1st half 18-19: .924
2nd half 18-19: .906 - below average
19-20: .904 - below average
20-21: .903 - below average
nhl.com/player/john-gibson
If you think a below average goalie that makes $6.4M for 6 more years is anything BUT a cap dump, I don't know what to tell you.