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

[Pavels Dog]

Ducks are gathering some very unlikeable douchebags. A shame they also have Carlsson.

 

[Boud]

TBH I don't think Drysdale will be a top pairing D and I don't think Gauthier will be a top line forward. This is the type of trade that gets a bigger reaction on HFBoards because shiny toys still have their luster.

Probably.

Grand scheme of things though you have to expect a pretty big reaction when two recent top 10 picks are traded for each other. Two guys who are expected to be building blocks on rebuilding teams. This is a significant trade.

 

[Snuggs]

What in the world did Yzerman teach Verbeek?

 

[Nevins]

Why did the Ducks give up on a top 5 picked dman so early?

Often injured?

 

[dirtydanglez]

big move out of no where. wow

 

[SnS]

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

Didn’t want to play in Philly.

 

[izzy]

This is insane

i am surprised that the ducks traded a young RHD. It seems they are going to have a ridiculous collection of LHD and forwards going forward

 

[Adtar02]

This screams cutter didn’t want to sign. And watching torts treat young players not shocked.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Seems like a win/win. Really good job by Briere to keep this quiet & maximize the return.

Surprised Cutter didn't want to play in Philly, from the outside it seemed like a great fit.

 

[DuckDuckGetz]

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

 

[GKJ]

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.

He simply didn’t want to be here. The Flyers have a big ethos out there on having players who do. That’s why they ditched who they did in the summer (and basically no one else), and had Michkov basically beg them to draft him.

 

[SI90]

Then they should have gotten more for a top 5-10 prospect in the entire world.

They got a 21 year old NHL ready defensman with elite offensive potential AND a 2nd round pick. What more do you want?

 

[DuckDuckGetz]

Ducks are gathering some very unlikeable douchebags. A shame they also have Carlsson.

Time for another cup run I guess

 

[PAZ]

Didn’t want to play in Philly.

Well ya, they made the best of what they could.

Just saying with that aside, it can still work out for Philly and it might've made it easier to cut ties if they were uncertain of his upside at C.

 

[Pass the Saitl Sauce]

Why did the Ducks give up on a top 5 picked dman so early?

Mintyukov has really exceeded expectations and I’m not even a ducks fan

 

[Stephen]

I like it better for Anaheim. They dealt from surplus with Mintyukov and Zellweger, and Gauthier will join McTavish and Carlsson to form up a pretty nice serious forward group.

 

[JohanFranzenstein]

Anaheim is about to be a wagon here pretty soon. Also putting a lot of stock in their young d moving forward.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

This screams cutter didn’t want to sign. And watching torts treat young players not shocked.

He didn't go to their rookie camp this passed offseason because he was "tired", which just screamed he didn't want to play there.

 

[Leonardo87]

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

I would think so, don’t make this kinda trade without being able to talk Gauthier’s
camp.

 

[Bone Density]

We actually need him to not play center lol

Oh, I know, just saying it’s an option in case of injuries. Seems it was being shoehorned in Philly.

 

[jetsforever]

Sounds like they had to trade Cutter so decent return

 

[Gliff]

We knew push was going to come to shove with the Ducks young defensemen. I’m disappointed it was Jamie that got traded instead of Zellweger.

They must have a ton of faith in their other guys.

 

[Kairi Zaide]

Ducks are gathering some very unlikeable douchebags. A shame they also have Carlsson.

no worries, douchinititis is very contagious

 

[Raistlin]

Bedard most likely hates Chicago growing up, and its not necessarily a spotless organisation in a city without flaws. He nutted up like a good Canadian kid. Surprised to see Cutter being the one to pull a reverse Michkov.

 

[BerthMania]

Then they should have gotten more for a top 5-10 prospect in the entire world.

Based on what? What makes you believe Gauthier has a better upside then Drysdale?