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I would burn down the Honda center before I sent Gibson to rot in Vegas. I don't care that it's steel and rock and ice, I'll find a way to do it.
The reason we have Benoit and Vaak is the same reason we have Zelwegger and Mintyukov, to see who is the better player and move the other. Maybe is Vaak is the odd man he is 7th D since he goes both ways.
Trading one of them for Reilly is flying in the face of the youth movement. We are still rebuilding, there is no reason to trade out the youth to get older to speed things up by one year. If we feel neither Vaak or Benoit are a fit, we go shopping next off-season when half the league is in free agency.
You are also trading out the only reason to try and accelerate the rebuild. The only reason to rush things is to try and use the prime years of Gibson (other than the ticket sales argument). Getting Lehner puts our window opening in question and likely delays it over standing pat. Don't get me wrong, Lehner seems like a great dude, but an age 31 goalie coming off of major hip surgery that looses him an entire season, that Vegas forced to play injured, that contract is going to age like milk.
You build dynasties through the draft, the only reason to ship out the youth is to keep a cup window open. The kids need time to simmer and meld at the NHL level, and we have everything we need for a great team for several years in our farm system, we don't even need all of them to hit, since we have duplicates of basically every position available.
Be patient, and in Verbeek we trust.