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

[GKJ]

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[Curufinwe]

Didn’t Sanheim have an old tweet making fun of BSchenn getting beat up by a Penguin?

Something about a duster…

 

[GKJ]

He will have to live with the Flyers sizzle reel modeling the uniform and cap. Bad fan.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The Flyers themselves have been quick to bury this kid, so if they were told, they don’t see it as legitimate. Ain’t nobody wishing him good luck.

Otherwise, they say it’s a personal matter, without saying what that is, I don’t see a reason to think it’s anything other than what we do know:

-He was not happy that he didn’t turn pro when he perhaps wanted to.

-He grew up hating the Flyers, like a good Penguins fan would.

One or both of these things made it a bridge too far.

Lesson learned I guess. Ohio State don’t trust people from Michigan. The Flyers shouldn’t bring in Penguins fans. Or at least use high draft picks on them.

Knowing how the Flyers operate, would the Flyers view ANY reason for not signing with them as legitimate?

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

You people are positively straining my ability to be positive.

Mission accomplished

 

[GKJ]

Knowing how the Flyers operate, would the Flyers view ANY reason for not signing with them as legitimate?

In this business, I could see that, because it like never happens. Ron Hextall notoriously hated the Flyers before playing for them.

 

[Curufinwe]

Didn’t Sanheim have an old tweet making fun of BSchenn getting beat up by a Penguin?

Something about a duster…

It was Frost

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[JABEE]

What did Briere lie about? He said they didn’t talk to Cutter.

 

[Rebels57]

For Gauthier, how many 18 year old freshmen burn their ELC? If you're born after January 1st, you need the 10 games to burn it as a D+1. If you turn 20 in the year you sign, you only need 1 game. Mittelstadt, for example, burned an ELC year as a freshman, with only 6 games, because he was a November birthday. Keller played 3 games his freshman year but his ELC slid.

For sure, the Flyers had the rare chance to burn a year with how their seasons worked (e.g. Farabee signed in March as a freshman, but the Flyers had < 10 games remaining so didn't play). But can anyone tell me the last 18 year old freshman to burn their ELC that spring? I can't find one, so it's interesting that this made Gauthier choose the nuclear option. It would've been a luxury peers and betters didn't get. It was his right to demand it (again, something was off with communications), but it's not as commonplace as it sounds.

Another reason to call bullshit on this speculation. I truly think its a lot more petty than this.

 

[Striiker]

I could beat him with a large stick until he gets with the program, if that would help.

I’ll never do what you tell me

 

[BernieParent]

How do we know Chuck Fletcher isn't responsible for turning Cutter against the Flyers?

This man is a menace.

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Because the only way Fletcher would have turned Gauthier against the Flyers was if he was trying to improve Gauthier's relationship with them. And Fletcher couldn't have been trying to improve Gauthier's relationship with the Flyers because that would have been the right thing to do.

It's a logic paradox.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

What did Briere lie about? He said they didn’t talk to Cutter.

“They refused to talk to us” is disproven, if their reps are to be believed.

There’s also just no chance that they didn’t tell the organization the reason, IMO. That’s just PR spin from the organization that gives them cover.

 

[Beef Invictus]

“They refused to talk to us” is disproven, if their reps are to be believed.

There’s also just no chance that they didn’t tell the organization the reason, IMO. That’s just PR spin from the organization that gives them cover.

The most Clarke Management Tree thing they can do is lie to villainize the player and direct all blame to him.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

 

[Curufinwe]

The Flyers management situation was total shit show from the time he was drafted till the time he told them didn’t want to play in Philly after the World Champs.

Can anyone, literally anyone on the Flyers brass take some responsibility for that being the case?

 

[Rebels57]

The more Cutter and his camp talk, the worst they look. Im not sure how or why anyone is blaming anyone but them with all of the non-speculation info we have. I dislike this dumb ass organization as much as anyone and have no desire to make excuses for them, but im putting this on Cutter.

 

[Rebels57]

https://twitter.com/billmeltzer/status/1745154093117489388?s=20

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The more Cutter and his camp talk, the worst they look. Im not sure how or why anyone is blaming anyone but them with all of the non-speculation info we have. I dislike this dumb ass organization as much as anyone and have no desire to make excuses for them.

Using non-speculative information and removing he said she said statements that create some fog, the player decided to use the rights provided to him to not sign with the Philadelphia Flyers organization.

I can’t blame a player for not wanting to sign with an organization like this one that’s been a dumpster fire for years.

 

[Jettany]

Another reason to call bullshit on this speculation. I truly think its a lot more petty than this.

It just can’t be that he’s a pen fan. Right?

 

[Starat327]

So seemingly if that’s to be believed, Briere lied about a couple of things the other day.

No, this is impossible. Flyers have no reason to lie here. "ER" Gauthier is to blame here because he doesn't bleed orange and white bro. He's not gonna make it in the NHL cause he's not man enough obviously


Fly til I die babyyyyyyyyyy

https://twitter.com/billmeltzer/status/1745154093117489388?s=20

Only on hockey do you need to pick the soles of every boot of anyone who has won a cup before you can say a word or act our of line.

And this sport wonders why it's miles behind every other major sport and losing ground.

 

[Curufinwe]

Pretty easy to imagine how signing Gauthier slipped thru the cracks with Chuck getting fired on March 10th and BC’s last game being March 11th. Seems like after that his camp saw enough from the team’s new management to decide they weren’t ever going to be comfortable playing for Philly. And I can’t blame them.

 

[phil162888]

It sucks ass... it really does because we desperately need a 1C/2C which I believe he had a great shot of becoming however the kid sounds like a douche no doubt about it and having a douche be the one of the faces of the franchise would have never worked out...so we move on.....I like Drysdale, he's better than Cam but very similar and we need players that can move the puck but also defend which is my only concern....overall I think they should have waited until the off season Only way his value declines is if he geta hurt....GM's love lottery tickets like fans and Gauthier would have been some GM lottery ticket this off season imo... but it is what it is lets pray he doesn't become a star and Drysdale does! seems that's all we can do nowadays as a fan as the misfortune seems to continue.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

ASF & Co. are saying the Hayes thing got taken out of context. ASF said he still stands by what he reported but people made it a bigger deal than it should have been.

The reality is ASF didn’t really offer up context/further explanation & he didn’t stop his other two co-hosts from taking personal shots at Hayes which set the tone for that reaction.

He added context/further explanation today that it wasn’t like Hayes was dead set trying to use this situation as some diabolical plan to get back at the Flyers. Just rather through HayesM experience it made Gauthier as someone on the outside saw/heard that & it made him sour on playing here.

 

[ajgoal]

The Flyers themselves have been quick to bury this kid, so if they were told, they don’t see it as legitimate. Ain’t nobody wishing him good luck.

Otherwise, they say it’s a personal matter, without saying what that is, I don’t see a reason to think it’s anything other than what we do know:

-He was not happy that he didn’t turn pro when he perhaps wanted to.

-He grew up hating the Flyers, like a good Penguins fan would.

One or both of these things made it a bridge too far.

Lesson learned I guess. Ohio State don’t trust people from Michigan. The Flyers shouldn’t bring in Penguins fans. Or at least use high draft picks on them.

Was Hextall the Pens GM when Gauthier was drafted? Maybe this is his fault. He poisoned the kid prior to yhe draft.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

ASF & Co. are saying the Hayes thing got taken out of context. ASF said he still stands by what he reported but people made it a bigger deal than it should have been.

The reality is ASF didn’t really offer up context/further explanation & he didn’t stop his other two co-hosts from taking personal shots at Hayes which set the tone for that reaction.

He added context/further explanation today that it wasn’t like Hayes was dead set trying to use this situation as some diabolical plan to get back at the Flyers. Just rather through HayesM experience it made Gauthier as someone on the outside saw/heard that & it made him sour on playing here.

What happened to “send me the link, Biz?”

 

[renberg]

Using non-speculative information and removing he said she said statements that create some fog, the player decided to use the rights provided to him to not sign with the Philadelphia Flyers organization.

I can’t blame a player for not wanting to sign with an organization like this one that’s been a dumpster fire for years.

My problem with Quitter is that on draft night he was happy with being selected by the Flyers and came on with the born to be a Flyers schtick. Then a year or so later he’s refusing to ever sign there. Going into the draft the Flyers needed a 1C or a potential top pairing D. Evidently he convinced the Flyers that he was their guy so they passed on Jiricek. If he’d been honest with the Flyers, they’d have taken Jiricek and resolved a hole in their defense. That makes their player acquisition strategy post draft until today totally different.
He screwed over the club in many ways. Briere & Co. Have every reason to be upset with him and his act. He’ll be a marked man for a long time. Probably other organizations have a black mark on him as well. A player can have all of the talent in the world but if they lack character, they’re not worth any investment. Quitter will do stuff like this again. It’s in his DNA. As Bill Russell’s Father once said, “Some people will let you down even if they have to die doing it.”