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

[GKJ]

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[GKJ]

Yes the Flyers may deserve this and Torts needs to go, but f*** Cutter. He wouldn’t talk to the Flyers and avoided them? Is he a man or a child? Red flag

Michkov refused to talk to the Coyotes, is he a big baby for that?

 

[bennysflyers16]

Drysdale seems to not be a torts guy , weird no ?

 

[sigx15]

Here's the scuttlebutt out of BC, this guy is really tapped into the program there and this would make sense from Gauthier's side

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

 

[Flybynite]

I think American sports would be better off if every team was named after the billionaire company that owns them and people(fans) could separate it from their city. The Xfinity Flyers have not been a very well run subsidiary.

If some random college kid got suckered into a contract with Xfinity and managed to get out via a loophole and go somewhere they wanted most would be like "haha, serves that massive corporation right"

But just because it says Philadelphia on the jersey instead of Xfinity I'm supposed to treat them radically different. Nah.

 

[PALE PWNR]

Sometimes I think that building your future around an old coach who is the most hated in the league is a poor strategy.

Mike Babcock exists

 

[Danko]

Didnt even remember they had Bob Murray on staff now

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I hear you, and I get it. As a fan that has followed this team since the early 70s, it’s just so frustrating that a player doesn’t want to play here so badly that he won’t even speak to the club.

The Flyers used to be one of the NHLs destination franchises. Now they’re just a joke.

Him and his agent not wanting to even talk at the World Juniors is a dick move. I agree this used to be a prime FA destination. This also is something that is not new. Who was the last top end FA to sign here? If JVR and Hayes are the best 2 that is more than just a Torts problem

 

[FlyerFire]

The Hockey News Volume 77 lol has a Prospect List under 21 section. Cutter is listed at 20. Drysdale is at 22. "he has the tools to become the Ducks No. 1 defenseman" In addition to a possible #1 D, (POSSIBLE) we got a 2nd round pick to boot. It stings to lose Gauthier's potential but better to get rid of the headache now, then get screwed later

 

[Rebels57]

Lmfao Keith Jones just said former Ducks GM Bob Murray (one of the worst in the business who was fired in disgrace) was instrumental in targetting Drysdale.

 

[BiggE]

MSN

Drysdale is joining an organization that also has young defensemen such as Cam York along with prospects Oliver Bonk and Emil Andrae as one of the selling points of a rebuild that appears to be ahead of schedule. The Flyers (20-13-6) entered Monday in third place in the Metropolitan Division.​

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Drysdale's arrival also gives the Flyers another top-four option in addition to what they have with Travis Sanheim, Nick Seeler, Sean Walker and York.​

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One of the characteristics that made Drysdale a coveted prospect was his puck-moving ability. That was on display during his first full season, with 12 of his points coming in the power play.​

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It's possible the Flyers could use Drysdale to address a power-play unit that has been a concern. The Flyers entered Monday with the worst power play in the NHL at success rate of 10.2%.​

This is all well and good, but ask yourself this. When these D start to hit their stride in 3-4 years, who will be the 1C and 2C? An aging Couts, Frost who gets shit on by the HC constantly?

After a decade of failure, it’s very hard to still have faith in this franchise. Especially when ownership is now a faceless corporation that couldn’t care less.

 

[Fire Tortorella]

People are saying this is a Cutter burner

I know thisis most likely a joke, but looking at those replies....

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Briere is on radio now https://975thefanatic.com/

 

[Redpath]

So now is when we trade a defenseman to make room for our new heir while also getting trade value for a veteran defenseman?

Right? Please?

 

[Beef Invictus]

Mike Babcock exists

Players were polled a few years ago and Tortorella was WAY more hated than Babs. It wasn't even close.

 

[wankstifier]

I'm troubled by the lack of faith in Sanheim to turn Drysdale into a 1RD and a healthy, happy boy.

The Hive is letting Travis down

 

[PALE PWNR]

Frost needs to be treated like a GOD from here on out. They cannot play games with him anymore (they shouldn't have in the first place). Their C depth is non-existent. If he wants chicken tendies delivered from Paris before a game, Keith Jones needs to get on a plane and hand deliver that shit.

 

[Gert B Frobe]

The salty takes about Gauthier wanting to leave is a preschooler take. Grow up

No they're not - he didn't want to play for my favorite hockey team. I hope he has success but F him anyway.

The preschool move these days is to pretend you're better than others and insult them in the process.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

After the initial shock I’m okay with this. Both players have question marks and pedigree. Drysdale has injury concerns but lots of people wondering how Cutter will translate to the NHL.



I think Drysdale is the higher ceiling but bigger risk because of injuries. If he plays regularly and becomes a top pairing guy who adds dynamic to the powerplay, we did great. Gauthier probably has a higher floor but what is his ceiling?



Now the Flyers have 3 picks from the late teens to early 30’s. They can get creative in trades or take major swings or grab fallers. If Gauthier wasn’t going to play then Briere did great. I know this board is doom and gloom but this is far from a bad trade. Many here weren’t too high on Cutter anyway. Drysdale is the type of swing for the fences move I think we like to see. More risk but if he works out we are in a better position than with Cutter. Not a fan of him ghosting the team if that’s what happened. Drysdale also helps this year. It will definitely be more interesting paying attention to prospects this draft with 3 bullets in the chamber probably from 15-35. Take a deep breath everyone, if he walked for nothing that would have been way worse

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Here's the scuttlebutt out of BC, this guy is really tapped into the program there and this would make sense from Gauthier's side

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

Every time I think this can't get funnier, someone finds a new way in which they might have been incompetent.

 

[Magua]

all of those games at BC I watched, all those detailed posts I made, all those bullshit arguments. Wasted my time. That's the reason why I'm mad.

Stop watching anything to do with anything, boo. I've warned you!

Keith Jones spent the offseason pleasuring himself to Vegas' big and rough defense corps. Now, they're going to roll York, Andrae, and Drysdale? I'm skeptical they do for any long period of time, but more than that, it shows that they (once again) can't keep their story straight. I don't even have to like their story, but they're flying by the seat of their pants and calling it a vision.

 

[flyerslducks]

Sheesh cutter with mctavish, zegras, carlsson, terry

Now that’s how you build your future top 6

 

[Rebels57]

The only way this story is meant to end is with Tortorella scratching Drysdale and not liking him. Only then would I believe in a higher power.

I give that 10 games tops.

 

[Danko]

They need to let Zamula play. I don't know what they are gonna do with Walker Risto Seeler but Sanheim, York and Zamula need to play.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Dan Hilferty is a bumbling idiot on this STG interview.

 

[mr4tno]

Here's the scuttlebutt out of BC, this guy is really tapped into the program there and this would make sense from Gauthier's side

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

This is why when you draft college players in the first round, you get them signed, period. The Flyers go cheap here yet they give ND $1.4 Mil for 4 years. You really can't make up this stuff.

Gauthier has not played one game in the NHL and even he knows the Flyers are a shit organization.