Cutter Gauthier hilariously gets benched twice in same game

It’s a quiet Thursday morning in Philadelphia. There is a new chill in the air that makes it feel that fall has fast-forwarded through its typical steps, and we are heading straight to when we want to just stay inside. With hockey on, that’s much easier to stomach.

Our beloved Philadelphia Flyers play their final game of their season-opening road trip in Seattle, and while we want to start thinking about that game and how it can be an important one before Saturday’s home opener and we start to envision the roar of The Farg, we cannot stop thinking about something that happened last night in NHL action elsewhere.

In Anaheim on Wednesday night, the Ducks were facing the Utah Hockey Club. A game only the truest of sicko neutrals would turn on, but we might have missed something hilarious.

Cutter Gauthier — the infamous former Flyers prospect that forced his way out of town because he did not want to play for this team and threw a temper tantrum, refusing to speak with NHL legends because he thought he deserved to play in the best league in the world as a teenager — got benched not just once, but twice.

The Ducks ended up winning the game over Utah in overtime to a score of 5-4, but that’s not what is important here. Gauthier, because of his mistakes on the ice in the second period, was left on the bench to sit quietly for an extended period of time, from 11:22 into the middle period, all the way until 1:49 into the third. A very solid chunk of time where the Ducks actually managed to score and have a 3-2 lead going into the second intermission.

Gauthier probably thought he was all clear. He went through his punishment and can now start the final frame on a blank slate. And, well, he probably could have, but he decided to go Controller Unplugged Mode on Utah’s equalizing goal as he backchecked so lazily that the went out of frame on the broadcast.