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Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 5:26 p.m.
Thread: Gibsons Value
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>tkecanuck341</b></div><div>The Ducks have been absolutely terrible since 2019. That's no coincidence.

The Kings were terrible for 3 years while they were retooling. For each of those 3 years, Drew Doughty was "terrible," and "over the hill," and "one of the worst contracts in the NHL." This season he just finished arguably the single best season of his career.

Put a decent team in front of Gibson and he'll look every bit like the top quality goaltender he was pre-2019.</div></div>

You're selectively ignoring the fact that Gibson isn't outplaying other ANA goalies in the same period with a massive sample. So no NHL front office is stupid enough to think half a decade of play isn't indicative of what the player is. And what Gibson is showing to be is an overpaid average at best soon to be 31 year old goalie. No organization is giving anything more than a liability back to Verbeek. Hence why Gibson will be staying in Anaheim to "lead" Anaheim to another bottom five season like he has done for years now.
Forum: Armchair-GMWed. at 8:08 p.m.
Thread: what todays game should look like
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>palhal</b></div><div>I will kinda disagree about the organization doesn't care about winning, but the personnel moves in in the last number of years shows they don't know how to win.. But that is true with lots of middling teams.They seem to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.</div></div>

I'm sure they'd prefer winning as it is more profitable. However, an organization unwilling to change coaching staff in season is a sign of an organization unwilling to make the changes needed to improve. Particularly this organization that might have won zero SCs in the Crosby era without changing coaching staffs in season. Name another NHL staff that has received more latitude for less recent accomplished. League's worst PP alone is a firable offense in any organization that wants to make the playoffs.