Bottom or top six. My point is he has the will to be a bottom six. Not a lot of expected top six skill guys have that attitude. It’s top six scoring role or bust.
C Cutter Gauthier (2022, 5th, PHI; traded to ANA)
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Probably a wing for the foreseeable future then, with McTavish and Carlsson there.
He’s been solid and really leaving us Ducks fans excited about his future. You wouldn’t understand though because you think he should be in the AHL which either shows you watched him play maybe once or just can’t evaluate a hockey game.
Right now yes he’d be bottom 6 on a winner. No doubt in my mind though he has first line potential.
Love Cutter, was happy with that trade the day it happened and am even more happy now.
If the Ducks can hire a coaching staff that can improve offense like the PP, think he can be a 30 goal scorer, especially if he is playing next to Carlsson who is starving for a goal scorer/sniper.
If the Ducks can hire a coaching staff that can improve offense like the PP, think he can be a 30 goal scorer, especially if he is playing next to Carlsson who is starving for a goal scorer/sniper.
30 is going to be the low bar I think with his shot/skating combo. Once he starts getting prime offensive minutes he's going to be a VERY dangerous goal scorer. 40 multiple times and maybe a 50 goal season at some point.
Yeah, I think that’s overstating. He reminds me a lot of Owen Tippett. Unless he changes his play style drastically, he’s not the type that will score enough variety of goals to put up 50. Owen Tippett is the same - fast, big, talented, high pick. Always feels like you want more from him. 26 and still hasn’t even hit 30. I think Cutter will be a fairly consistent 30ish goal scorer and may flirt with 40, but 50 is reaching imo. 50 means he’s a top5 ish player and he doesn’t have that ceiling. Quick count says there’s literally been 9ish different players total to hit 50 in the last 10 years. It’s very hard.
Draisatl, Point, Kreider, Crosby, McDavid, Pastranak, Hyman, Ovechkin, Reinhart.
And all of those players were in an extremely favorable circumstance, except maybe Kreider and Reinhart: they had a multiple year art Ross candidate as support on their team. Kreider still had Panarin though. Reinhartstill had Barkov, and Pasta had Bergeron - 2 way demons to let them do their offense.
So unless we see expecting Leo Carlson to be a multiple art ross candidate, just don’t think it’s feasible.
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This is fair, I see him as a consistent 30 goal talent occasionally flirting with 40.
Leo becoming a top 5/10 center is one of the reasons I am bullish on Cutter's goal production. In 2 or 3 years I think it's going to be one of the best playmaker/sniper duos in the league.
He's been looking really good lately. With more experience he should be at least a 30-30 player annually. He's cleaned up a lot of the mistakes in his game he demonstrated early on, he's an active forechecker and he's surprisingly fast in transition. I'm fairly confident that, at worst, he'll be a good second liner long term.
Considering moving Drysdale away was a move caused by a logjam of d prospects/young players, This is looking like a fantastic pick up for Anaheim.
Considering moving Drysdale away was a move caused by a logjam of d prospects/young players, This is looking like a fantastic pick up for Anaheim.
Glad it’s working out. Drysdale is figuring it out as well with Shaw’s magic, and has probably been the Flyers best D over the last few weeks.
Good to hear. Had some concern when Torts was saying he still needs to learn hockey. I guess that can be chalked up to Torts' typically rough edges but had to assume he had a lot of work to do. Glad things are shaping up for him.
Torts gonna torts. He’s come in and set direction, but I think somebody new needs to come in to help the players find a new level.
Heck no. Other way around.
Both have same IQ and size and propensity to shoot from anywhere and everywhere
Agreed. Tippett is one of the NHL’s fastest skaters, has a crazy powerful shot but is as dumb as a box of rocks.
I think Cutter is a little smarter, but not by much. He only has his shot as an elite trait. Tippett has 2 elite traits.
Cutter has as many points as Tippett as a rookie playing 14 minutes a night. The idea that he might be as good as Tippett one day is a bit silly - he’s as good as him now at 21yo.
He should be a regular goal scorer in the NHL, especially under a half decent coach.
He should be a regular goal scorer in the NHL, especially under a half decent coach.
This was looking like a landslide for the Ducks until recently. Dryadale has thankfully looked a lot better and is scoring a good clip over the last few weeks. To me he looks stronger as well as more confident. Can’t see him being more than a second pairing still so really hoping the 2nd round pick works out well. I’ve always thought we should have just held on too cutter.
hmmm, I suppose I never knew Tippett was so fast, was that a trait he developed post draft? Cutter is pretty fast too, probably the fastest player on the Ducks, at least in most cases, measuring speed in hockey can be borderline psuedo-science though.
I think Cutter has been better at playmaking/creating than I thought he'd be seeing him in college last year. And his all around game is pretty advanced, he looks really good defensively for a youngster. He's certainly far, far ahead of where Tippett was as a 21 year old in just about every category outside of skating.
He's got 12 points in 13 games now since the 4 Nations, and is a +3 on a minus team. He's coming along very nicely.
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