The Puck Drop: Cutter Gauthier makes his NHL Debut

In January 2024, it was revealed that the Anaheim Ducks' Jamie Drysdale and a 2024 second-round NHL draft pick would be traded to the Philadelphia Flyers for 2022 fifth overall pick Cutter Gauthier. This was something that the NHL world had never seen before – a prospect who has never played a game in the NHL being sent to a different team. After the 2022 Draft in Montreal, Gauthier insisted that he did not want to play in the NHL in a Flyers' jersey.