Quoting: MakeMarnerACentre
stolarz played 20 games, also two fairly different situations, gibsons clearly frustrated with the team, players become disinterested playing for **** teams
Last two seasons, with Goals Saved Above Expected numbers from MoneyPuck:
Stolarz - 36 GP, .919 SV%, -0.5 GSAE
Gibson - 91 GP, .904 SV%, -21.7 GSAE
Numbers against playoff teams over the last two seasons:
Stolarz - 15 GP, .911 SV%
Gibson - 52 GP, .905 SV%
Even accounting for the situations, Stolarz outplayed Gibson. You can't blame Gibson's numbers on the defense in front of him (which, considering it had Lindholm, Fowler, and Manson in its top 4 for the majority of the last three years, is really not as bad as people make it out to be when defending Gibson).
As for the "Gibson's just disinterested" narrative, Ducks fans usually support that by saying he's started out ok the last three years and then fallen off later in the season, which they ascribe to falling off as the team drops out of playoff contention. My question would be, how do you know he's not just getting fatigued because he can't handle the load as a full-time starter anymore? Any team acquiring him for a playoff run is making a huge gamble that lack of interest is causing the decline and not just fatigue in a guy who played a ton of minutes at a young age.