Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek on 32 Ideas: The Podcast – That’s a Wrap on the John Gibson hypothesis.
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Friedman: “Now, the (John) Gibson factor, I heard it’s not been simple. You realize, identical to (Tristan) Jarry battles a whole lot of belly points, Gibson has had some and I’ve heard that scared a few groups.
I nonetheless suppose that man is a heck of a goalie. He confronted virtually a document variety of photographs this yr and he saved Anaheim in a whole lot of video games that they’d no enterprise being in actually. And I feel there’s a whole lot of unfair Gibson hate round there. However I’ve heard they’ve had a extremely exhausting time getting any traction there. I feel that’s a man who will bust out in his subsequent place.
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So on Monday night time, we now have one other insert, John Gibson’s agent, Kurt Overhart, launched an announcement refuting studies that Gibson had mentioned he wouldn’t play one other sport for the Anaheim Geese. Principally mentioned he wouldn’t deal with the state of affairs in that exact method.
And I consider additionally that Gibson communicated to the Geese on Monday that he’d by no means mentioned that and that was not his intension and I feel that each one labored itself out high-quality between him and the group.
Look, John Gibson desires a commerce. The Anaheim Geese need to accommodate it. I feel the Geese have discovered this course of tougher than they thought.
Now, one of many issues right here, I’ve little doubt that Pat Verbeek is asking rather a lot. There’s a whole lot of goalies in the marketplace. Gibson has a little bit of an harm historical past. I do know that’s been a little bit of concern for some groups. However the truth is, he’s an extremely gifted man and there’s lots of people on the market who consider that in a profitable state of affairs, which Anaheim isn’t in proper now. He’s going to take off. And I do know there’s some folks on the market who actually know Gibson and actually like Gibson, who would wager on him in that state of affairs.
Now Gibson has a partial no-trade and he does need to go to a group that he thinks can win the Cup. It’s been a problem for Anaheim to do that thus far due to all that. However Gibson I’ve heard is ready to be affected person. You realize, I don’t know if all people right here’s going to need to bend slightly bit. Whether or not or not Gibson’s going to need to conform to broaden his potential checklist of locations or Anaheim’s going to have to come back down from it’s ask a bit. Like, I’ve mentioned, I’ve heard Verbeek worth Gibson very extremely. However I do suppose there are groups which can be kicking round him.
Like one of many groups I feel all people’s type of questioning about is, are the Devils going to enter subsequent season with (Vited) Vanecek and (Akira) Schmid as their group. Regardless that I feel they actually like Schmid rather a lot, do they suppose they will win a Stanley Cup that? And that’s going to be a query till mainly subsequent season begins and even into subsequent season, if they begin with these two goalies.
In order that’s the place I feel it stands proper now. I’ve heard Gibson’s ready to be affected person with this. However because it stands at the moment, he doesn’t have a protracted checklist of groups he actually desires to go to and likewise the Geese worth him very extremely. So it’s a gradual course of and it’s been a problem for Anaheim to drag this off thus far.