Former NHL Draft lottery choose Cutter Gauthier has been traded to the Anaheim Geese by the Philadelphia Flyers in trade for Jamie Drysdale and a second-round choose.
Gauthier, thought of a prime NHL prospect who’s at present enjoying NCAA hockey for Boston School with 23 factors in 17 video games this season, was traded as a result of he wouldn’t ‘signal, prepare or talk’ with the Flyers.
The participant refused to satisfy with Flyers GM Danny Briere or President of Hockey Operations for Keith Jones once they flew to Sweden final month to look at the 19-year-old lead the US to gold medal glory on the latest World Junior Championship.
A yr after they drafted him, Gauthier instructed Philadelphia he didn’t intend on becoming a member of the workforce which has now led to a blockbuster commerce involving fellow starlet Jamie Drysdale – who was chosen with the sixth general choose within the 2020 draft.
“It was a very long time coming,” Briere mentioned. “It’s been occurring for some time. We tried to present him area. We tried to get in contact with him many instances. He wouldn’t talk … so in some unspecified time in the future, we needed to decide, and we thought with what occurred only a few days in the past, this was most likely the time to get the very best worth.”
Among the timeline we all know concerning the Cutter Gauthier commerce saga …
▪️Drafted No. 5 general by the Flyers in July 2022
▪️Knowledgeable the Flyers on the Might 2023 World Championships he didn’t wish to play for them
▪️Flyers tried to accumulate the No. 5 choose within the June 2023 NHL… pic.twitter.com/uZn9Kspm3n— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) January 9, 2024
“It was to attempt to defend the child,” Briere mentioned. “We have been hoping that in some unspecified time in the future he would change his thoughts. He had already modified his thoughts. He checked out us on the draft and instructed us he was constructed to be a Flyer, needed to be a Flyer, after which a number of months later, instructed us that he didn’t wish to be a Flyer, didn’t wish to play for the Flyers.
“So in our thoughts at first, we mentioned, ‘We now have to guard him, as a result of if he alters his thoughts once more, it’s going to be robust for him to place the uniform on.’ However once we realized that he refused to speak to us now, it’s been months and he didn’t wish to be a Flyer, didn’t wish to be in Philadelphia, it was time to make it occur.”
