Confirmed Trade: [ANA/PHI] Cutter Gauthier for Jamie Drysdale and 2025 2nd round pick

[smytty]

Exactly. This is a city that is not shy about telling people who don't want to be here how we feel about them.

Maybe this is part of why he doesn't want to be there

 

[Connor McConnor]

Cutter is damn overrated. He will end up coming out of the gates hot, get people excited then when his low hockey iq sets in he will be a 3rd liner who can pot you 10-15 goals a year. I like the trade for the Flyers, they needed an offensive dman

 

[GKJ]

 

[quacktastic93]

They have Leo C. as well.

also mctavish =)

 

[Groo]

As it stands, as a Sharks fan I'm not digging this trade at all

 

[WarriorofTime]

This happened to the ducks years ago also. I can't remember who it was, but is was a defenseman.

Justin Schultz

 

[Terry Yake]

with drysdale's inability to stay healthy and zellwegger ready to make the jump to the NHL, i can't blame the ducks for making this trade. especially with how badly they need goal scoring

if drysdale can stay healthy, he's going to be very good

 

[bland]

Maybe Carter doesn't fit what you're talking about. But Lindros turned out to be a pretty damn good player. Hell, as a Kings fan I watched Brock Faber do the same thing, I have no ill will towards him and he looks like a stud in Minny.

Just because other players have bought into the system doesn't mean everyone has to. I've always hated the idea that a player should suck it up and waste their 18-26 yr old years stuck somewhere they don't wanna be. I get playing pro sports is a privilege and all that, but at the same time there are few other industries that force a location on you to perform a job.

I definitely think Gauthier won't have what it takes to be a winner, and that him and Zegras will be a poor mans Matthews & Marner, but refusing to sign in Philly has no bearing on that.

I think we're just gunna have to respectfully agree to disagree on this one.

For the 30,000th time, Faber never said a damn thing about not wanting to play in LA and was surprised about the trade.

 

[WarriorofTime]

also mctavish =)

Oh yeah duh. Nice group of forwards there.

 

[Guess]

I guess Anaheim feels they have way too many top end young dmen and it's better value to move one for a high end forward.

Exactly what the Habs need to do. Good for Anaheim.

 

[Back in 94]

Did he say why he didn't want to sign in Philly?

 

[DingDongCharlie]

I like this trade for Anaheim. They have Mintyukov and Zellweger coming. With Drysdale showing difficulty staying healthy this move just makes sense for them.

It's not bad for Philly either. Grab a young player whom you hope can grow with the core for a prospect who's not interested in being a Flyer and a pick on top.

It's a solid hockey trade.

 

[93LEAFS]

Justin Schultz

The only time in recent history a top 10 pick has used the play 4 years in college and leave to your desired location was Blake Wheeler.

This happens so rarely, it's not much of an issue. As shown here, the Flyers got value back.

 

[Guess]

I'm assuming we've already been able to talk to him and he'll play for us, right?

Would be ridiculous to think otherwise. But he did tell Philly he would be ok to play there, initially so who knows?

 

[Nevins]

Kinda reminiscent of Sergachev for Drouin

The worst Bergevin’s trade

 

[Siginla]

The conversation had to go like this:

Birere: Hey Pat, did you catch the World Jrs?
Verbeek: Sure did, your Cutter kid looked great.
Briere: He doesn't want to sign here, want to make a deal?
Verbeek: Will he sign with us?
Briere: Well he SHOULD, it's Cali after all. Just send me one of your young Dmen.
Verbeek: Ok, Drysdale it is.
Briere: Idk, he's been injured a few times
Verbeek: And no guarantee Cutter signs here.
Briere: Both of us are taking a gamble, but you guys might get nothing. How about we add a 2nd?
Verbeek: Well we'll TRY and work out a contract but if not we still get a 2nd and flip the kid to the team he wants for more assets.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Players refusing to sign with their draft teams is unhealthy for the sport (though rare)

This isnt the MLB where theyre stuck till age 26; either grow up and nut up or you should be forced to sit out an arbitrarily long time for being a jerkoff about it and not speaking up at the draft

If the owners or league want to stop this, then they should negotiate it out of the CBA, but guess what, to get it out of the CBA, they'd have to give a bunch of other concessions.

Just my two cents though and itll never happen with player-empowerment happening throughout the sports world

In the real world (non-sports), this sort of stuff happens all the time for high demand professions. People accept one job, and a better offer comes along and they take that one instead. Heck, many people even use that as leverage to get a better offer from another company they prefer. As someone who has done hiring the tech field, I've seen it many times where someone accepted an offer only to accept a different offer before ever coming onboard.

 

[Apex Predator]

Holy shit lmao

https://x.com/spittinchiclets/status/1744538478086357449?s=46&t=F-gQrVWvDqQEq4MYhtIb-A

Is that real

 

[DingDongCharlie]

Wait what does he have against Philly?

No idea. Probably best to ask Philadelphia insider, Bill Burr.

 

[sigx15]

I do find it funny when Briere is out there saying, "he told us after the WC he wants to be here, we don't know what changed?!" Then it comes out they basically immediately tried to trade a month later him at the draft. Have to think Gauthier wasn't too happy with that. Major spinzone out of the Flyers on this one

Also, here's the report Gauthier wanted to sign at the end of BC's season and the Flyers wouldn't guarantee burning an ELC year. This guy is really tied in at BC so I'd take this as being pretty solid

https://x.com/BCHockeyBlogger/status/1744520186042917075?s=20

 

[LemonSauceD]

Anybody named Gauthier is automatically a mid level player

 

[Megaterio Llamas]

So Cutter doesn't get to play for Torts eh?

 

[Gurglesons]

Lose to the Pens and lose your 2nd best prospect.

Good day.

 

[Apex Predator]

Sounds like Flyers wouldn't guarantee him the games required to burn his ELC last year (BC's season ended early enough to do that). Probably led to some friction with the organization.

Most likely scenario makes sense!

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Cutter Gauthier vs the Flyers organization/city of Philadelphia is the feud I didn't know I needed