{"id":360789,"date":"2026-06-14T22:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360789\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T22:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:46:21","slug":"cutter-gauthier-vs-bowen-byram-a-trade-that-would-have-shaken-up-the-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/360789\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutter Gauthier vs. Bowen Byram: A trade that would have shaken up the NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cutter Gauthier now plays for the Anaheim Ducks, and that&#8217;s no coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>The American had told the Flyers he didn&#8217;t want to play for them because he was unhappy with how his situation was being handled in Philadelphia. He was eventually traded to Anaheim\u2026 without having played a single game for the team that drafted him in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In return, the Flyers acquired Jamie Drysdale and a second-round pick in 2025. But\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But that trade wouldn&#8217;t have been possible if the Flyers had reached an agreement with the Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>According to Frank Seravalli (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-hJ_TP8lGzI\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Frankly Hockey<\/a>), the Flyers and the Avalanche were discussing a potential trade that would have sent Gauthier to Denver\u2026 while the Flyers, for their part, would have acquired Bowen Byram.<\/p>\n<p>The trade didn&#8217;t happen\u2026 and Byram was ultimately traded to Buffalo for Casey Mittelstadt (a straight-up swap).<\/p>\n<p>Imagine Cutter Gauthier (a pure goal-scorer) playing alongside a player like Nathan MacKinnon\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cutter Gauthier now plays for the Anaheim Ducks, and that&#8217;s no coincidence. The American had told the Flyers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-360789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}