Confirmed with Link: Flyers trade Cutter Gauthier to Anaheim for Jamie Drysdale and 2025 2nd round pick

[GKJ]

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[Rebels57]

Not sure how I feel about this. With the Flyers luck Cutter will be a perennial 50 goal scorer and Drysdale will be injury prone

However we needed a high end defenseman in the system and we weren’t likely to get it this year. I’m hesitantly okay with this

ETA: I now see he didn’t want to play for us. I suppose we did great in this situation to get Drysdale and an early 30’s pick. Not really a fan of Cutter after this

Drysdale already injury prone lol. Hes bordering on bust territory.

 

[Danko]

Frank says the flyers spoke with 18-20 teams in the last couple weeks lol

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I did laugh when an incredulous Jim Jackson said on the broadcast “Who does this kid think he is? Eric Lindros?”.

 

[Fire Tortorella]

Maybe I've misunderstood this, but from what I can tell, he wanted to be here. They drafted him. Something changed and he didn't, then stuck to it. There was only one change.

The only specific rumor we have is that it was Tortorella. That doesn't mean it was. But it's what we currently have.

I'm trying to find the quote but I could have sworn it was a flip flop situation and not a "I've decided not to play for you and that's final" situation.

EDIT: Though I could be wrong

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I look forward to the same exact press conference in a few years about Michkov.

“At the draft he said he wanted to be a Flyer but something changed.”

Please buy a Santa Sack with this Christmas ornament of a mounted Tortorella in the style of "Napoleon Crossing the Alps"

 

[Flybynite]

I look forward to the same exact press conference in a few years about Michkov.

“At the draft he said he wanted to be a Flyer but something changed.”

Since Briere avoided saying Gauthiers name and just said "he" or "him", there was nothing specific in the first 90 secs that can't be reused again. Up until he mentioned " Jamie" anyway.

 

[Larry44]

Shit coach? Organization with no plan? Ruin his future earning potential? What the F are you talking about. Go troll some other board sponsor. Ignore.

Huh? He’s spot on re: shit coach and no plan.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Listen, I am relieved that I don't have to listen to fans and media fawn over a winger playing center who likes to shoot the puck from the Andromeda Galaxy with pace/IQ issues. Those people will suddenly excoriate him, while I don't really care. I don't have to listen to people pretending Tortorella isn't toxic. And I don't have to listen to the Flyers touted as some sought after destination. Yay?

There's no way this was the best value long-term. They wanted a piece to add to their playoff run NOW. Even if Drysdale has talent and is young, we're talking about someone with lost development and a non-ELC. Is this a PP QB predicated move (lol)? There's a good chance they pissed away 5th overall value (multiple times).

And it leaves them with absolutely no center depth long-term. You had to squint and pretend Gauthier could be a 1C to believe in this pretend rebuild. Now? If they knew about this for a year, then it makes everything about Frost's handling -- like he was a luxury -- so much worse. That's the most likely ~2nd line (let alone top line) center under the age of 31 in the organization.

Oh god I hadn't even considered what this means for the Frost handling.

rofl holy shit. wow.

 

[Magua]

@FLYguy3911 -- I'd wager some money that they could've gotten Zellweger, but they thought it would save face more to get a player who went 6th overall than 34th. You can't hate that process.

 

[Danko]

 

[GKJ]

Torts dirtbagged Hayes and they’re still paying for it.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Anaheim has Mintyukov, Zellweger, Luneau that are all potential high end offensive dmen who are already playing or will be playing by the end of the year. Drysdale could end up being the best but he also managed to bring back a big piece. So they don't need high end d...it was in fact a log jam.

They traded him for the player who just lead the world juniors in points. So it's not like it didn't take a lot to pry him from Anaheim.

There are others they could have cleared to fix the log jam. It raises eyebrows that Drysdale was what they cleared with his injury history.

 

[oldwpgjet]

Not sold on Gauthier being any kind of superstar before he even plays an nhl game, if they needed to trade him, I don't think they did that bad. Drysdale ,hopefully is just injury bad luck so far not career injury prone, he will eventually be a great defenseman for the Flyers and there have been some pretty good 2nd rounders these days if they draft right. And Torts might not be the most popular coach but he has turned a tire fire into a decent competing hockey team so be patient, it might not be too bad.

 

[Chinatown88]

Any 1st line centers this upcoming draft? modCHECK

 

[Striiker]

See? This alone makes this a win. Charlie, Jamey, and the rest of Flyers twitter is devastated too.

I don't drink but I might go get some champagne just to pop the cork.

champagne is more expensive than anticipated and im being carded at 30 years old

devastating for ya boi

 

[Danko]

 

[wankstifier]

Torts dirtbagged Hayes and they’re still paying for it.

I was wondering if there's a nonzero chance that he'd play 4 years of college. Now I'm certain he's a Duck

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Briere did not say that Gauthier changed his mind multiple times. He worded it confusingly, but he said he changed it once, a few months after the draft.

 

[Adam Warlock]

I love that Snow the goalie thinks Hayes souring Gauthier on Torts is a Hayes/Gauthier issue and not a Torts/Flyers issue.

 

[wankstifier]

champagne is more expensive than anticipated and im being carded at 30 years old

devastating for ya boi

13 going on 30

Move over Jennifer Garner

 

[Fight4yourRight]

If Cutter was in fact good friends with Hayes, then good f***ing riddance.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Yeah, tell me one thing thats better about Southern California then Philly??!

Southern Cal has the weirdest cheesesteaks. They're completely encased in a very thin bread wrapping, like a big pill. You have to swallow them like a pill. They have beans in them. It's disturbing.

 

[BringBackHakstol]

"We don't know why he didn't want to be a Flyer"

They are protecting a dinosaur coach over the actual future. It's clear as day

 

[Beef Invictus]

If Cutter was in fact good friends with Hayes, then good f***ing riddance.

Wait what

 

[snoop88]

There is zero doubt that the scumbag frat boys like Hayes, Yandle were in the head of Gauthier if the rumors are true. Yandsy and his loser friends are still bitter over his manufactured streak ending.

But frankly, the Flyers enabled that entitled country club atmosphere.