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

[GKJ]

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[Embiid]

I honestly didn’t even know it until like yesterday but apparently Cutter is his middle name. His real full name is William Cutter Gauthier.

Even worse....showing preference to his middle name.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

My first car, it was roughly the age of 10, was nearly identical to that of Newman's in Slapshot. More so LeMans than GTO but same color and hardtop. I saw the Clash and the Pretenders in that puppy.

My Pop owned the exact same GTO as Reg Dunlap - gold with black hardtop. A year before he passed, I found an exact model car kit, put it together, and gave it to him for his birthday. He never made it to the next birthday.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Even worse....showing preference to his middle name.

I have heard of people having an unusual first name & opting for the middle name assuming it’s more usual but not this way.

 

[Embiid]

I have heard of people having an unusual first name & opting for the middle name assuming it’s more usual but not this way.

Exactly...

 

[MayonnaiseOreo]

It really is a pretentiously annoying name. Sounds like the kind of family that names their daughters after states like Dakota, Montana or herbs like Sage...

Is Cutter better or worse than Scudder?

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

My Pop owned the exact same GTO as Reg Dunlap - gold with black hardtop. A year before he passed, I found an exact model car kit, put it together, and gave it to him for his birthday. He never made it to the next birthday.

That was a sweet sentiment on your behalf. Good job.

 

[Embiid]

Is Cutter better or worse than Scudder?

Or Scutter....a slimy dirty slob

 

[Flyerfan4life]

InB4 career ending re-injury....

im already braced for it

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

So he's a Willy Cutter

Thus, if he assisted to Tippett we could have had a Bobbitt to Tippett?

 

[Kermit the Prog]

I have heard of people having an unusual first name & opting for the middle name assuming it’s more usual but not this way.

Had a long-distance thing over 20 years ago. She was a police dispatcher and one night they booked a woman named "Shithead." She pronounced it, "Sheh-theed."

Planet Earth. Please visit our gift shop.

 

[BobbyClarkeFan16]

Did anyone else notice just how happy Jamie Drysdale was in his interview? He was beaming, he was so happy. I don't know why, but it stuck with me how happy he was. Do you think maybe he also wanted out of Anaheim?

 

[PDX Flyer]

I'm still wholly convinced the Flyers would've won the Cup in 2004 if they didn't have the injuries. That game 7 loss was the one that broke me as a fan. I was only 11 and cried my eyes out watching the final seconds tick off the clock. That series was heartbreak for me. The 2010 Final loss was just an empty feeling rather than sadness.

The previous series against Toronto was an absolute slugfest as well. I agree though, that D staying healthy would have made the difference.

I’m a bit older.... 85 and especially 87 was my crying, 10 year old moment

 

[Kermit the Prog]

The previous series against Toronto was an absolute slugfest as well. I agree though, that D staying healthy would have made the difference.

I’m a bit older.... 85 and especially 87 was my crying, 10 year old moment

At least you avoided...the Leon Stickle Game.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Did anyone else notice just how happy Jamie Drysdale was in his interview? He was beaming, he was so happy. I don't know why, but it stuck with me how happy he was. Do you think maybe he also wanted out of Anaheim?

I don't think the latter so much but from how his personality has been defined, he could be a happy-go-lucky, affable individual.

Jamie Drysdale seeking his own story line with the Flyers

Jamie Drysdale seeking his own story line with the Flyers

www.delcotimes.com

“It was pretty wild for me, I’m not going to lie,” Drysdale said of his sudden transfer from Southern California to the City That Cutter Gauthier Rejected. “We were about to go on a two-week road trip. I was hanging out with a couple of guys on the team and I got a call from our GM and he just said, ‘We traded you to Philly,’ and a couple of other things. Then I got a call from Danny Briere and he just said ‘Welcome, we’re excited to have you.’ That was kind of the process.”​

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As any Philadelphia sports fan knows, though, The Process can be slow. Or a made-up management trick, take your pick.​

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Maybe it was Jones and Briere who felt they were being played for fools when they went to the trouble of flying all the way to Sweden for a seat at the World Junior Championships, only to not get a seat at Gauthier’s table when the time seemed so right to finally iron out a problem. The issue was that for months, the 19-year-old Gauthier and his legal team had more or less been avoiding all things Philly, the organization that had drafted him fifth overall in 2022, the one he spoke excitedly about that year at the draft … and the one whose front office leaders thought he could use another year of seasoning at Boston College last year rather than jump onto the payroll of a club that wasn’t playoff ready and had salary cap issues.​

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Either way, the Flyers say they tried everything for months to resolve the situation, and instead finally pulled the plug when they couldn’t even meet with the American hero over in Sweden. What they managed to do in the interim was set up a trading scenario in which a long-sought need — a youthful right-handed shot defenseman who can actually skate the puck out of their defensive zone without anxiety attacks — could be met via a Cutter swap.​

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On top of that they got a second-round 2025 draft pick in the deal, but hey, let’s not go crazy with praise, as it will be the development of Drysdale which will decide the day for this deal down the road. For his first practice day act, he seemed happy to be here. What more did he need to do?​

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“Out of the gate it was a lot to process,” Drysdale said. “My mind was kind of in a blender. I didn’t see it coming at all. But in saying that, coming to a team like Philly … literally the second I heard about it, my phone blew up from just people around the hockey world saying it was an unbelievable place, a first-class organization. And a lot of great guys on the team. Not one bad thing to be said across the board.​

“It’s always exciting to come to an organization that treats people well and is a fun team to play for.”​

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[MayonnaiseOreo]

The previous series against Toronto was an absolute slugfest as well. I agree though, that D staying healthy would have made the difference.

I’m a bit older.... 85 and especially 87 was my crying, 10 year old moment

I flipped out when Roenick scored that OT goal in game 6 against Toronto. My dad fell asleep in his recliner and got mad I didn't wake him up for OT despite me doing so no fewer than 5 times. Lol. I just thought that 2004 crew was special and Primeau putting the team on his back was something to behold. I still don't like Vinny or St. Louis because of that series.

 

[PDX Flyer]

At least you avoided...the Leon Stickle Game.

I vaguely remember hearing about it. My first game at the Spectrum was 81

 

[Embiid]

At least you avoided...the Leon Stickle Game.

Maybe I'm wrong but it seemed back in the day refs really had a lot more influence as personalities compared to now. I remember the likes of Terry Gregson, Kerry Fraser and his unmovable helmet hair and donut eater Koharski. There is another I'm missing....Stewart?

Edit: Yes Paul Stewart

 

[PDX Flyer]

I flipped out when Roenick scored that OT goal in game 6 against Toronto. My dad fell asleep in his recliner and got mad I didn't wake him up for OT despite me doing so no fewer than 5 times. Lol. I just thought that 2004 crew was special and Primeau putting the team on his back was something to behold. I still don't like Vinny or St. Louis because of that series.

I went to the game that Keith scored a hat trick. I think it was that series./year. What a rub he had.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

Maybe I'm wrong but it seemed back in the day refs really had a lot more influence as personalities compared to now. I remember the likes of Terry Gregson, Kerry Fraser and his unmovable helmet hair and donut eater Koharski. There is another I'm missing....Stewart?

Edit: Yes Paul Stewart

And one stifling linesman - Kevin Collins. What a wet blanket that guy was.

I vaguely remember hearing about it. My first game at the Spectrum was 81

I'm still angry - forty-some-odd years later.

 

[Embiid]

And one stifling linesman - Kevin Collins. What a wet blanket that guy was.

Lol...I was just going to edit and add him. He used to always ruin fights if I recall correctly...him and that perm

Andy Van Hellemond was an annoying ref as well.

This attested to his character even if he is in the HoF

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/van-hellemond-quits-under-cloud-of-suspicion-1.514525

 

[BernieParent]

Exactly right. And we don’t even have to wonder! It was only less than a year ago. Everyone knows this place would have been irate if Gauthier was signed last April to play four meaningless games. Absurd to think the cries of “bad process!!!” and “awful cap management!” wouldn’t have been the predominant view.

A few posts from March 2023:

Prospect Info: - Round 1, Pick 5: Cutter Gauthier, LW, USNTDP -> Boston College

Good. Let him stay there. No need to rush him. Hell, at this point, I could see Couts-Frost-Foerster being the centers for next year. That seems unlikely. Cates won't move back to wing till Torts is gone. But Gauthier spending as little time as possible with Torts is a good thing. Stay 3...

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I never thought I would see myself get quoted in any sort of authoritative or example way. Just another way to know how far this board has fallen. You flatter me, @Random Forest!

 

[BernieParent]

Rocky must feel left out, especially with Drysdale being a potentially big boost to his PP.

 

[GKJ]

I always felt the Flyers threw away game 1 in 2010. We needed that game

They threw away both those games in Chicago. Game 2, Lavy puts Bartulis and Kraijcek on a d-zone draw late in the second and immediately gets burned on the second goal in less than a minute.

 

[BernieParent]

Haven't posted for a while, but logged in just to say how the morning was like, literally 5sec after opening my eyes at 8am

hb: ''why would the Flyers trade Cutter Gauthier?''
me: ''the Flyers WHAT''

Not gonna bring ''tell me how to feel about this'' question here, but if the guy did not want to sign, so be it. Certainly our upper management knew why precisely and if Torts is to blame. 100% that it has been mentioned here already, but they were trying to trade him already at draft, as per Charlie O'Connor or what the name of that twat was.

It was great seeing a post from you!!

 

[Winston Wolf]