Quoting: BCAPP
Please educate me why he has been. I can only go by the boxcars and the odd game I've watched against the Leafs or nationalized game at a bar or whatever
You have to have watched him play every game to understand just how bad a team that allows 129 more goals than it scores can be. Gib makes 36 saves in a game and he looks like a bum because the team gives up 40 shots. You take the worst 5 shots he faced out of every game and his figures would look like Linus Ullmark's. That being said, I'd probably admit that he hasn't been as good as we Anaheim stalwarts believe, but he sure hasn't been nearly as bad as his detractors have said. My secret hope for him is that he gets traded to Colorado and wins the Conn Smythe.
Perhaps advanced analytics, to which I have no access, will better explain what his true percentage of GA on high-danger shots is, but I doubt it as almost all of his CapFriendly critics seem to be analytics-driven. My anecdotal grasp of Gibson's performance is that he "gives up" at least two goals per game that were essentially empty-netters on which he had no chance. I thnk that I'll start to chart his performance a little more intelligently this season, just to see if he's as bad as some people say.
One final thought: two or three summers ago, I had a back-and-forth with an Edmonton homer who insisted that Mikko Koskinen was a better goalie than JG. Fast forward and now few people remember that Koskinen was even in the NHL. That same year, the undisputed consensus was that the worst contract in the NHL, and probably in NHL history, was Sergei Bobrovsky's.
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