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

[Luigi Lemieux]

Funny a Pens fan has to ask this.

Lol I mean I know why I hate them. But as a drafted player I wouldn't refuse to go there. Any rumors?

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

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

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

 

[LevelingSolo]

The Torts effect

How is this on Torts?

If you talk to players, most like playing for him

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Love an absolute bomb trade like this.

No one saw it coming, and boom.

I think Anaheim wins it. I like Drysdale, but they didn’t need him and he has all these injuries.

Anaheim adds potentially an impact forward, and gives up a defensemen that for all we know might’ve turned out to only be their 3rd or 4th best young defenseman when all is said and done.

 

[MardyBum]

That came out of nowhere, wow.

 

[DuckDuckGetz]

Ducks also don't need Cutter to play center, although being able to slot in there is nice.

We actually need him to not play center lol

 

[trostol]

Going to be so fun to hear his explanation

i hope he comes out and says i didn't want to play for Torts lol

 

[Nevins]

Maybe the second round pick because Drysdale is often injured?

 

[Michoulicious]

So mad Hughes did not offer Reinbacher for Gauthier.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

How long until we find out Tortorella did something f***ed up

 

[thekernel]

Holy smokes. Props to Briere for squeezing some excellent value out of a bad situation. Gauthier seems like a wiener.

 

[ryan callahan]

Also I don't get how Philly didn't call on Gauthier's bluff. There is zero chance he would have ridden his full eligibility to become UFA. Would have wasted two years of career earnings.

 

[ijuka]

But wait a second, I've heard that quality defensemen aren't available for trade anywhere and that if you want one you have to draft them.

Oh, and also. Clear win for Flyers as far as I can see. Drysdale is already proven at the NHL level, Gauthier could even bust for all I know. And defensemen tend to be more important than wingers as a whole.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

Strange he would have something against Philly to tell them he won't sign there.

Good on him telling them the truth though and this staying quiet so a trade can be made

 

[SnS]

He would still need to play 2 more seasons at BC to become a UFA. No rush to make the trade. If Briere viewed this as good value, so be it.

Why wait?

 

[Seachd]

Zegras trade incoming?

I wouldn’t think a non-NHLer would make Zegras expendable, so probably not.

 

[EXTRAS]

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.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Wow, that’s bad for the Flyers. Must be Torts.

Or Cutter is the type of player that is going to dare teams to make him wait four years and wants to pick where he’s going to live once done with college like every other non-athlete he goes to school with.

 

[AlexModvechkin8]

The biggest prospect swap since…?

 

[LuGBuG]

I mean. Why though.

 

[S E P H]

Great trade by the Ducks.

 

[Breakers]

remember the pages of pages of pages comparing Drysdale to Sanderson.

 

[MNRube]

The snipe against Sweden aside, Gauthier did not impress me at WJC. Low IQ player.

Crazy he is making demands like that as a teenager with no NHL games under his belt. They should’ve shipped him to Winnipeg or something

 

[PAZ]

Not a horrible trade for Philly IF they don't see Cutter as a center.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

Right but why trade him for an undersized defender that can’t stay healthy?

If the trade was based around an idea that he would be selective about where is going to sign, then either the team that acquired Gauthier had to factor in the risk of him not signing with them. Or, it was known who he would sign with and that reduced the market to those teams and lowered the demand for the him.

Look at what Adam Fox went for when it was thought that he would only sign with the Rangers, two 2nd round picks. Granted, this deal is slightly different because whoever holds the rights to Gauthier is entitled to a top 40 pick as compensation if he walks, but still, it's all relative. In all likelihood, Gauthier signed is worth more than Drysdale+2nd, but he wasn't signed.