This Huge Trade Keeps Getting Weirder... 

It's a 2025 pick, but a solid future asset nonetheless

It's because the guy they got I'm return has some injury issues. Ton of upside but there is some injury risk already

Yeah, Unfortunately JD hasn't played much due to injury.

I think brier did very well with all considerations. Got a very good return for him and now he's Anaheims problem. I really wish buffalo would have traded for Drysdale using their prospects. They have so many, could part ways with a couple of them

For that to have happened several NHL teams stayed silent to situation. I am curious who that list is.

He def thinks he’s him lol after a world jr win.

Gonna talk the talk you gotta walk the walk

This is my thought exactly. I haven't done a deep dive but I'm sure there's no shortage of 5OA draft picks with short NHL careers. If he does well, ANA will love him but if he doesn't do well he's not going to look attractive to any org who would otherwise be open to "taking a risk" on a player.

Can’t wait for him and Zegras to fight for the bigger ego 😂

That shouldn't give power for teams to do whatever they want. A player should have a choice of where they can go. You're just bitter (which is fine) because he didn't choose your club.

Ya, im sorry, but most teams put in this position are doing the same thing, exploring options, and accepting plan B is Jamie fricken Drysdale and a second thats 40+ overall... Get off Grittys junk for a second lmao 😅.

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Good point, Danny, Jones and Tortarella are all on the same page "you don't want to be a Flyer? Ok you won't be a Flyer" simple as that. Let's hope Drysdale stays healthy and is an answer to our dreadful power play

He didn't want to sign so he would have had to sit out until he graduated to become a free agent. Instead the Flyers caved and gave up their rights to a player that looks like a future star for a player that fizzled. Cutter pushed the Flyers and they relented. QUICKLY

Well not so much that, is that Flyers would "lost" Guathier as a UFA, and only been compensated with a fifth pick in the second round. Flyers just cut their loses, but could be a fair trade for everyone.

Are you kidding? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤡 This is a ROBBERY dude. It will be EVIDENT within a year. Drysdale is a BUST who hasn't played in 2 seasons and hasn't had a full season since his rookie year.

How is it unethical? Surely it's unethical to have no say what team you play for until you hit free agency at 27.

Remember that time the Flyers acquired Eric Lindros bc he refused to play for the nordiques? Not to mention, Philadelphia and unethical go hand in hand, so it seems fitting.

@@francescoxiv762 Its not unethical just completely disrespectful to just ghost the organization.

@@francescoxiv762I mean, what do you think the point of the draft is? For all the players to just go “eff this, I want to go somewhere else?” Like, have you thought at all about what you just said?

​@@demoman1596sh yes, the draft is archaic and just for the teams (owners) to abuse their power over players.

He did. Everyone played it off that he was tired and needed to rest because he had been playing nonstop for an extended period of time.

Milan the wife beater, Corey the step daddy… damn

​@@mikes7446u sayin he slept with bedards mom?

if michkov can transfer his skills to the NHL then they'll get a massive boost

I always forget they have michkov and tbh that he even exists because hes buried in the khl@@Skynexstar

@@LucyBatmanhe's putting up nice numbers in the KHL, would've been nice to see him at the World Juniors

this is easy. Kevin Hayes gets traded. Thats the only thing that happened. Hayes had half the Flyers locker room supporting him while other half was supporting Torts. Flyers saw how dysfunctional this was and traded Hayes (barely got anything back). Hayes who somehow made friends with Cutter clearly got in his ear and then Cutter would not take any calls from Briere.

@@carlhammill5774 Seems like what actually happened.

Anaheim lol.

@@jeremydubeck4439 ..exactly

Philly lost this trade my guy. If Jamie gets hurt again this year I guarantee Philadelphia with flip a shit lmao

@@Devilsfan-pd8ov …if you think Anaheim getting a pouty player wins the trade then you have another thing coming. All the pressures gonna be on Gauthier and I doubt he ‘lol be able to handle it, But life in Cali will be a lot easier on him because there’ll be few demands on him.

@@gh4121-b5n dude gauthier never been a problem. Flyers lost this trade by a landslide if Jamie gets hurt again this season I guarantee flyers fans flip a shit

I don't think enough attention is spend on that development. I heard up to 5 teams stayed silent knowing Cutter would not play for Flyers. If word got out, my guess is Flyers would have only received a middle tier prospect from Ducks and thats it. Good right handed defenseman are unicorns in NHL and as you said that 2nd rounder will basically be late 1st. It says the NHL still has integrity for teams to allow Flyers to get max return.

Someone reached out to a source and they said it wasn’t bc of Torts that he didn’t want to play for the Flyers, and that he respected Torts so…

That would be an insane red line for a prospect to take. If so, it would speak volumes about Cutter.

@@slaypool That could be his honest opinion, but I imagine it's also what his agent would recommend he says publicly, regardless of which way he feels.

i doubt that has anything to do with it. most players love playing for guys like torts

Until Torts ends up coaching the Ducks lol

Why should they follow some rule that benefits only the team and in no way them? Also, they already payed their dues, that's what junior hockey is about.

@@loupparle why even have a draft? they played with and against players far less experience and developed skill in juniors compared to the nhl so they didn't earn the right to just do whatever they want. the team won a lottery like every other team so they should have the players right for 3 years. after that the player can request a trade and the team can get better assets. if not then every team is wasting a pick because of a diva

Grow up. It's a business

​@@yoholmes273Gautier should grow up. Yeah it's a business, and the _players_ are the product.

@@CanadaBlue85 PLayers ARE the product which is why he can tell a grabge organization playing in a garbage town to go screw off.

Why? The players that do that are always top prospects that would have been drafted anyway. It doesn't make sense to me why they should ruin a few years of their careers playing for a shitty team.

@@yoholmes273 and the owners own the product. It's a job at the end of the day. He should put in his time until free agency. There's a draft and a for a reason. A damn good reason.

exactly right. Go listen to Cutter post World Junior interviews. He has fire in his eyes. How long until he realizes no one is even paying attention in Anaheim. My guess is he will find a way out of Anaheim for Pens.

He did.....

Soon? He isn’t coming here for 3 plus years lol

@@foraiur45 it’s actually only 2+ years… 1+ after this season.

Anaheim looks like they're going to be pretty good soon too so perhaps not.

Lol, minimum four years before you see Michkov, if ever.

Anaheim has arguably the best young core in the league lol

These guys make millions of dollars. They aren't gonna be living in the slums. I'm sure there are nice areas in or outside the city to live in. Patrick Kane just signed in Detroit after all, and Detroit is one of the worst cities in the country.

Philly has the best and worst neighborhoods I've ever seen. These guys won't be anywhere near Kensington..lol The weather on the other hand, leaves something to be desired.

Apparently Kevin hayes spoke and said he had absolutely no part in anything so don’t be spreading rumours and lies around, 2nd it’s more than just flyers fans that are throwing this kid shade.

@@brendenrodgers7821 did you expect Kevin Hayes to come out & say Hey guys this is on me. I told him not to play for Torts.

Drysdale is on his 2nd contract already. They have had him for over three years. Perhaps the Ducks no more about Drysdale than the Flyers do? Cutter has minimal pressure on him in Anaheim as compared to Philly, where the fan base cares

Why go to camp when the coach is a toxic throwback who would crush creative young players, give them zilch for ice-time, and basically ruin their careers? Torts is the problem. Good on the kid for staying away from that out-of-touch dinosaur.

@@carlhammill5774And yet you Philly scumbags gave him death threats after the Cutter situation. What a great fanbase you guys are..

Yeah, he seems like he’d prefer to just play pond hockey & win 25 games a year with zegras.

Tortorella is a schmuck and the whole hockey World knows it . I'm a retired Zamboni driver who knows a few NHL PLAYERS and One NHL COACH for the NY RANGERS, and believe me ... NOBODY likes Torts and for lots of reasons beyond hockey.

Sounds like something from Norm MacDonald's old sports show..lol RIP Norm.

Ducks last Stanley Cup parade: 2007. Flyers last: 1975 rofl! It must be brutal having to ask your dads dad to tell you stories of what it was like to go to a Cup parade.

@@boolikethebear I’m not a flyers fan. I’m just stating the obvious.

for you “stating the obvious” is telling a 19 year old kid he should have no say in where he plays or spends the next few years of his life and that somehow makes him an “arrogant clown” only clown here is you buddy

It's funny you judge him as "an arrogant clown" with only one-sided recounts of the situation, for something that he totally has the right to do. Also, Anahein is as much of a losing irrelecant franchise as Philadelphia, only with a better young core.

@@loupparle I mean, to say the flyers & ducks are equally irrelevant just isn’t correct seeing as the flyers are in a playoff spot & one of the biggest brands in the sport. And I am taking the word of briere, you’re right. But he’s not a writer on day time TV, I doubt he made this story up. And where people go wrong with the whole gauthier has the right to do this is, yes he does but there’s a respectful way of doing this or there’s being a tool. The latter being the route he elected to go.

getting rid a problem before it was a BIG problem is a W

@@gabegood8989 true and u got a good d man

They actually took a massive L

Kevin Hayes got benched then traded by Torts. Hayes is friends with Cutter. That answers your why.

The ex-Flyer AND former Blackhawks #1 pick, who refused to sign with the Hawks back in 2013 Kevin Hayes? 🤔

His IQ is lower than his Jersey number.

Yes he'd be forced to play for them until his contract expires. He could also refuse to play for them but then he'd be breaching his contract and wouldn't get paid

​@royjonzejr he didn't sign yet. So the rights to his contact are held. Probably like 4 years, then yes, he would be eligible as a free agent.

He can always play in the NCAA... players who opt to play until they graduate becomes a free agent if they haven't signed by then.... regardless of which team drafted them.

He would have just stayed at BC for full 4 years.

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Kevin Hayes weird…. His bc connection and hate for torts might have something to do with it.

I find it funny that a bunch of corporate entities have rights to you because of a draft. It’s ridiculous really. I could be wrong but it helps the poorer corporate entities get better players via the draft. I don’t see how it helps the players all that much.

Entitled……one of this generations buzz words. I would love to know the truth behind why he doesn’t want to play in Philadelphia.

@@hELLOGUY-gy5hg yeah, you really gotta feel bad for teenagers getting drafted into professional hockey. So unfortunate.

​@hELLOGUY-gy5hg If you didn't have a draft, you wouldn't have as successful a league and guys like him wouldn't be able to make millions for playing a game.

This generation?@@TC-dw6wg

Why? Flyers sucks and Philly is the armpit of the Northeast.

@@yoholmes273 Most teams are in major cities that are absolute "armpits" of whatever area they're in. So, if you can manage to get a couple more brain cells to fire, think about the big picture. If more spoiled brats get drafted and snub the team that drafted them, the organizations will undoubtedly fight back in some way. When this happens, it'll be a blanket policy affecting all draft picks, punishing the 99% of draftees who are ecstatic to play in the NHL and the other 1% of spoiled brats who think they're Billy Big Bollocks because they had a good junior career.

No he doesn't. It's his right not to sign with the team that signs him. Just like Fox who was signed by the Rangers or Marino now of New Jersey. Happens every year with college players. and even some non college players.

@@keithball6480 Not meeting with the organization when they come over to see you is absolutely NOT how you do this.

But Philly sucks so....

Only good thing philadelphia has are cheesesteaks tbh. Everything else is pretty shitty.

And... Like, he won't play there. Why would he care?

I don't think he cares bro lol

He won't ursurp Crosby

classiest philly fan

Coaches turn over often in Philly though. Who's to say he'll be around in 2 years.

@@stevef4010 True that. Maybe it is because of other factors more unique to Philly the city.

As a Flyers fan I really don’t think he’s going to be but I wouldn’t mind if he was only because it would be like an ok cool we dogged a bullet in more than one way type of thing but I think this kids going to be nasty.

That's a mature way to handle a situation where you only know one side of the story.

No drysdale is super inconsistent and is older ducks won by a landslide

​@@canuckfan8622 Not to mention he is injury riddled

@@canuckfan8622dude he’s 21, still super young

@@canuckfan8622 Nonsense. I've been watching Drysdale since before he was drafted, he's a star. When he's healthy, he's a top 4 already at 21, and his ceiling is so much higher. I don't know who wins this trade, but I tend to think that both sides got something pretty great out of it.

Ducks do not need him. Zellweger, Mintyukov, LaComb, Luneau, Hinds… I believe Zellweger has a higher upside than Drysdale. Ducks win this trade by a lot imo.

Yeah Karma has his ways. Cntter will get his karma aswell.

You forgot about Fox who signed as UFA with the Rangers. Or Marino in effect who signed with the Pens. These college grads have a choice, every year these college grads become UFAs.....Fox and Gauthier are the top two profile guys though.

He was talented. Never understood why he would want to leave Tampa. Weird. He had the Penguins number for sure.

I really think he wants to play for Pens but right now there is too much smoke and he will behave for while before creating situation where he demands trade.

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@tofromaks lol he’s 21 years old who slots in perfectly of what the Flyers are looking for👉 A right handed defenseman who can quarterback the power play in the near future! ( Both teams got what they needed in this trade )

That is IF Cntter will even want to play for the Ducks. Grats on getting a spineless and classless player that didn’t even bothered to meat with the organization that drafted him after they traveled to Sweden. Tells you a lot about him.

good right handed defenseman are unicorns in NHL. Flyers have really good defensive coach who turned several players around. What Flyers need most from Drysdale is on PP. Your correct, health will be huge factor. Cutter on other hand will endure alot as flyers fans will harass him thru this career and I think many NHL players will take umbrage to how Cutter handled this by not even taking phones calls. NHL is small family compared to other sports and I don't think they want to see it go the way of NBA where players just deciding who they will play for.

Drysdale is not physical but he can move the puck and throw suace up the ice and when he is playing with Sanhime he does not need to worry Philly won this trade hands down got rid of a spolied brat and got a quality player and a top 2nd round pick in return

When asked about the trade Tortorella said, “I don’t know Cutter from a hole in the wall.” Team says Gauthier was happy to be going to Flyers when drafted but after a few months began to change his mind, told the Flyers he didn’t want to sign with them and eventually cut them off from communication. When your coach is constantly overwhelmed by his own narcissism and doesn’t go out of his way to even attempt to form a relationship with a #5 pick who is literally a few hours drive away, coupled with Tortorella’s reputation as a nasty jacktard, who would want to begin their career playing for that guy? Plus, Cutter listened to months of Tortorella’s egomaniacle badmouthing of premier prospects coming out of junior, like Trevor Zegras. I completely understand Flyer fans being upset with Gauthier, but it doesn’t matter. The kid made a ballsy man-size decision and it’s a big plus for the Ducks. No one who watches Anaheim hockey consistently could possibly think Drysdale was worth his high pick.

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That's a hilarious thing to say. Never seen an organization deal with player injuries so poorly. Clarkes a clown when it comes to that,

@Electricalphil clarke?? You mean lindros and Clarke 25 years ago?? Lol that was injury related. I was referring to salaries. Did you read? Anaheim is a relatively poor team who consistently nickel and dime their players. Always have been and will continue. Philly always, now, past, and future are more than fair regarding contracts. In fact Philly overpays their players and has for years. Dreyfus got stiffed on his last contract with Anaheim, as is their way. Gauthier has that to look forward to. Philly exiled him. Oh... and Lindros was extremely well paid, top 3 during his tenure in Philly. Not bad for a guy Clarke detested, at least he wasn't cheap.