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

[GKJ]

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[CerpinTaxt]

Cutter is pointless so far in 3 games this season. So is Jamie.

We won!

 

[Embiid]

Drysdale still sux....

A cross between Karl Dykhuis and Andrew McDonald. Can only hope my original comparison of Matt Carle comes true as a consolation...

 

[deadhead]

Both players are question marks, Gauthier just got benched after 4 games and Drysdale is a work in progress. The 2nd rd pick should be top 40.

I expect Gauthier to be a better version of Tippett, good goal scorer who is meh otherwise.
But getting benched on a bad team after two years of college is not a good look.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Cronin's a hardo.

Still a horrendous trade.

 

[blackjackmulligan]

Drysdale still sux....

A cross between Karl Dykhuis and Andrew McDonald. Can only hope my original comparison of Matt Carle comes true as a consolation...

Those 2 were actually passable at playing defense. So far JD has not been. He aint even Greg Hawgood

 

[Embiid]

Those 2 were actually passable at playing defense. So far JD has not been. He aint even Greg Hawgood

He seems to have confidence issues.....maybe the injuries have affected his psyche a bit. Hopefully, he snaps out of it but he does look rather bad on D....

 

[blackjackmulligan]

Both players are question marks, Gauthier just got benched after 4 games and Drysdale is a work in progress. The 2nd rd pick should be top 40.

I expect Gauthier to be a better version of Tippett, good goal scorer who is meh otherwise.
But getting benched on a bad team after two years of college is not a good look.

Getting called out by your coach saying you don't know how to play is a worse look.

He seems to have confidence issues.....maybe the injuries have affected his psyche a bit. Hopefully, he snaps out of it but he does look rather bad on D....

One can hope. All the Flyers can do at this point is be patient. My hope is he is healthy and plays 75 games. Then you build on that and hope the rest comes.

What I really wonder is how long it takes the coach to distance himself from the player and the trade. Then put him in the Torts house.

 

[deadhead]

Drysdale has looked better so far this season, and that's without Seeler.

As far as Gauthier:

Seems from Canuck fans he just floats around, got benched for a failed back check that led to a goal.

Another player who put on 20 lbs in the offseason.

Gauthier, eyeing Ducks roster spot, displays new physique at Rookie Faceoff | NHL.com

20-year-old forward ‘feeling more dominant’ after adding 20 pounds to frame during offseason

www.nhl.com

 

[blackjackmulligan]

Drysdale has looked better so far this season, and that's without Seeler.

As far as Gauthier:

Seems from Canuck fans he just floats around, got benched for a failed back check that led to a goal.

Another player who put on 20 lbs in the offseason.

Gauthier, eyeing Ducks roster spot, displays new physique at Rookie Faceoff | NHL.com

20-year-old forward ‘feeling more dominant’ after adding 20 pounds to frame during offseason

www.nhl.com

JD has looked terrible. Adding no value at all so far.

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

JD has looked terrible. Adding no value at all so far.

IDK about terrible but yeah he isn't exactly making me feel psyched about that trade.

 

[Beef Invictus]

The main way that he's better is that he's even in the ice to be seen

 

[Tripod]

Why not get Shaw to whisper to him. After all, he fixed Risto.....to a 3rd pairing D...lol

 

[Magua]

No one should give a shit about 3 games. Your point isn't proven right or wrong in that sample. It's sour grapes to even care. Hell, Drysdale hasn't come within an astronomical unit of his first 3 game sample as a Flyer.

But many of us were skeptical that Gauthier could play center; we pegged him in his draft year as a long-range shot-happy floater; and we saw a nice complementary scorer (which he'll probably still be) over a cornerstone. We'll see what's true, but that was always our scouting report, and when he was Flyers property there was pretending none of those were possibly true. And @FLYguy3911 was calling Drysdale a less than the sum of his parts offensive player in 2020. Not Scott Niedermayer. We'll do the same with Luchanko -- time is a flat circle.

 

[Curufinwe]

I wonder if Luchanko would be on the team or even have been drafted (given how hard they draft for "need") if they hadn't lost Gauthier.

I'd bet my life savings they would have shoehorned Cutter into the center spot.

Tippett-Frost-Michkov
Foerster-Gauthier-Konecny
Farabee-Couturier-Brink
Laughton-Poehling-Hathaway

 

[Curufinwe]

Some posters in the Anaheim roster thread want Cutter sent to the AHL, but most don't.

 

[freakydallas13]

Cronin's a hardo.

Still a horrendous trade.

It's a horrendous trade no matter what Gauthier turns out to be, just based on the value of each asset at the time of the trade.

 

[Rebels57]

No one should give a shit about 3 games. Your point isn't proven right or wrong in that sample. It's sour grapes to even care. Hell, Drysdale hasn't come within an astronomical unit of his first 3 game sample as a Flyer.

But many of us were skeptical that Gauthier could play center; we pegged him in his draft year as a long-range shot-happy floater; and we saw a nice complementary scorer (which he'll probably still be) over a cornerstone. We'll see what's true, but that was always our scouting report, and when he was Flyers property there was pretending none of those were possibly true. And @FLYguy3911 was calling Drysdale a less than the sum of his parts offensive player in 2020. Not Scott Niedermayer. We'll do the same with Luchanko -- time is a flat circle.

No one is worse at scouting Flyers prospects than the Flyers. Its astonishing.

 

[Rebels57]

As for Gauthier, his biggest issue is always going to be that he is a dullard.

 

[Beef Invictus]

As for Gauthier, his biggest issue is always going to be that he is a dullard.

But have you considered his ambidextrous golfing

 

[CutOnDime97]

Some posters in the Anaheim roster thread want Cutter sent to the AHL, but most don't.

Where's he getting traded?

 

[deadhead]

No one should give a shit about 3 games. Your point isn't proven right or wrong in that sample. It's sour grapes to even care. Hell, Drysdale hasn't come within an astronomical unit of his first 3 game sample as a Flyer.

But many of us were skeptical that Gauthier could play center; we pegged him in his draft year as a long-range shot-happy floater; and we saw a nice complementary scorer (which he'll probably still be) over a cornerstone. We'll see what's true, but that was always our scouting report, and when he was Flyers property there was pretending none of those were possibly true. And @FLYguy3911 was calling Drysdale a less than the sum of his parts offensive player in 2020. Not Scott Niedermayer. We'll do the same with Luchanko -- time is a flat circle.

To be fair, in retrospect, looking like a thin draft, D+3 only a few players have played until this season.
#1 Slavkovsky 125g
#2 Nemec 66g
#3 Cooley 87g
#4 Wright 20g
#5 Gauthier 4g
#6 Jiricek 47g
#7 Korchinski 76g
#8 Kasper 1g
#9 Savoie 1g
#10 Mintyukov 66g
#11 Geekie 2g
#12 Mateychuk
#13 Nazar 3g
#14 McGroarty 3g
#54 Piotras 54g

I'd say Mintyukov looks like the best player after #5, Korchinksi, Jiricek and not much else.
Of course, this may change the next couple years, but odds are none will be close to elite.

 

[renberg]

I see that Pittsburgh sent McGroarty down to the AHL today

 

[GapToothedWonder]

I wonder if Luchanko would be on the team or even have been drafted (given how hard they draft for "need") if they hadn't lost Gauthier.

I'd bet my life savings they would have shoehorned Cutter into the center spot.

Tippett-Frost-Michkov
Foerster-Gauthier-Konecny
Farabee-Couturier-Brink
Laughton-Poehling-Hathaway

I'll always be convinced Luchanko growing up a Flyers fan played a factor in drafting him.

 

[Magua]

No one is worse at scouting Flyers prospects than the Flyers. Its astonishing.

I've brought this up several times, but the Flyers have a total organizational block on trading ELC players. Not even talking prospects still in junior. Play a game if you want: find me the last one, then find me the one before.

Spoiler

Sbisa and....? Sbisa also wasn't necessarily a judgment call

We can litigate how the Flyers aren't good at aspects of drafting, but it doesn't take much to prove how high their opinion is of themselves. I don't think they ever steel man an argument about any of their prospects, which leads to thoughts of selling high. All while oddly not pumping their prospects' values. I think they don't care about pumping value because they assume they'll eventually hit within the organization.