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Confirmed with Link: Flyers trade Cutter Gauthier to Anaheim for Jamie Drysdale and 2025 2nd round pick
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As I remember they wanted Brindy. The flyers needed to ice NHL players. Forsberg told them he was staying in Sweden for 1 or 2 years if I remember correctly.
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They absolutely wanted Forsberg and refused any deal that he wasn't included in. All of their scouts were sold very high on him.
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I thought I remember the same but then saw something somewhere where they did want Forsberg and Inge Hammarstrom who scouted Peter was pretty distraught when the Flyers included him in the trade.
Among the original players that the Nordiques wanted, were Mike Ricci, Rod Brind'Amour, Ron Hextall, Steve Duchesne, Kerry Huffman, three first-round picks, and one of two prospects — either Peter Forsberg or Vyacheslav Butsayev…a clip from the atlantic.
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Yeah I know...but there were more recent reports that said Quebec wouldn't do the trade unless we included Forsberg.
From Page on Forsberg…
“We saw him play when he was 18 and he was five foot eleven, one hundred sixty-five pounds. He was not fast, not slow, but he was skilled and gritty. Anyone who says he was going to be a superstar is lying. He was good, but he was not above average fast. He was just nasty, gritty, and skilled. Then, a year and a half later, he’s six foot one, two inches taller and twenty-five pounds bigger, and faster, which is unusual. We hit the jackpot. We knew he was good. Inge Hammarstrom, who was a Flyers scout, has said he wouldn’t have done the deal one-for-one for Lindros. To be honest, at that time, Lindros was way, way better. Peter got better and better, become a two-way player. He was the best player in the NHL at one time, according to Glen Sather.”
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I am not sure when Aubut changed his mind on the original offer and wanted Forsberg.....the dude was a duplicitous prick. Double dealed with the Rangers and balked at our picks of Sittler and Bowen which were made in haste when he backed out. We had to change up the offer and gave him other picks which wound up being Thibault and Chris Simon. This is why the original offer isn't the fully correct narrative.
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Yeah I recall it too bc I always thought we just threw him in the mix unwittingly. Yes, he was underrated bc of his size etc but not by Hammarstrom who viewed him a steal.
That quote from Page seems to be how they felt about Forsberg right after the trade.
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Somebody will set the record straight. I just seem to recall a convincing report later that said Quebec did want Forsberg. Hilarious if they took Butsayev instead....but they got the last laugh...at least Colorado did.
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Flyers fans upset with Cutter Gauthier may want to remember how their team once acquired Eric Lindros - The Boston Globe
Lindros, chosen No. 1 by the Nordiques in the 1991 draft, refused to play for Quebec and ultimately helped engineer his trade to Philadelphia the following June.
www.bostonglobe.com
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It was equally just as bad a trade when the flyers traded for adam oates and the picks failed then when the flyers traded a 1 for Steve Emminger and the pick turned out to be John Carlson.
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Yeah, you have to analyze a draft ex ante with all available information (including the information you should have obtained with proper due diligence, whether it be a competent medical exam or scouts doing background work on a prospect/player's character).
Talentwise, Gaither/Drysdale are probably a wash, but Drysdale has a higher risk of injury.
Fit wise, Drysdale has more value to the Flyers (need 1st pair D-men) and Gaither to Anaheim (plenty of D-men and centers, need a scoring wing).
The 2nd rd pick is compensation for the higher injury risk.
Talentwise, Gaither/Drysdale are probably a wash, but Drysdale has a higher risk of injury.
Fit wise, Drysdale has more value to the Flyers (need 1st pair D-men) and Gaither to Anaheim (plenty of D-men and centers, need a scoring wing).
The 2nd rd pick is compensation for the higher injury risk.
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Flyers fans upset with Cutter Gauthier may want to remember how their team once acquired Eric Lindros - The Boston Globe
Lindros, chosen No. 1 by the Nordiques in the 1991 draft, refused to play for Quebec and ultimately helped engineer his trade to Philadelphia the following June.
This is incredible, nobody has thought of this or pointed it out here. Thank you so much for this very positive contribution
Flyers fans upset with Cutter Gauthier may want to remember how their team once acquired Eric Lindros - The Boston Globe
Lindros, chosen No. 1 by the Nordiques in the 1991 draft, refused to play for Quebec and ultimately helped engineer his trade to Philadelphia the following June.
Allegedly, posters on this site aren't supposed to go on other teams' boards and troll. Ah well, at least we have gi ... umm ... automerge!
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Interesting that this article comes from the BOSTON Globe. IMO, in the end, this is where I expect Quitter to end up. His next move is to stiff Anaheim. I haven't noticed any indication that he is willing to sign with the Ducks. If I'm wrong, pease correct me.
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We assume the best and most positive things about people here now CDP. I'm sure he just didn't think that we, a bunch of mostly older or old Flyers fans most of whom were alive at the time, would remember the league altering trade which had ripples up to the modern day. We are old and older, after all. Our memories fail.
Ah, I see. So not just another boring and awful mongrel. Got it.
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Of course not. I'm sure that every time something happens to his godawful team and city of racists, he thinks back to something from 40-80 years ago, nods, and thinks "yes we deserve this. Pizza in our city is a trash heap."
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I'm not trolling, I just posted the article for your perusal. I do it periodically, if a Boston article might be of interest to another board(i.e., posting a story about Greg Cronin, former head coach at Northeastern, on the Ducks board).
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I am a huge fan of this trade. I was extremely skeptical of Gauthier's hockey IQ and think he's going to end up as a slightly worse Laine. After this debacle it seems he has an even worse personality than him too, so can't wait to see how that unfolds for him.
Drysdale I've always LOVED as a prospect and now I'm over the moon we have him. If he can stay healthy, we have a Karlsson-lite on our blue line for the next decade.
A shocker for sure, but after the dust has settled and with Jamie already looking amazing in the O&B... I'm even more pumped about our future.
Drysdale I've always LOVED as a prospect and now I'm over the moon we have him. If he can stay healthy, we have a Karlsson-lite on our blue line for the next decade.
A shocker for sure, but after the dust has settled and with Jamie already looking amazing in the O&B... I'm even more pumped about our future.
