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Anaheim Ducks left wing Cutter Gauthier, the Flyers' first-round pick ... It was what you might expect from two elite defenses. It took elite effort to overcome it. Tight end Dallas Goedert ...

So Gauthier, a 20-year-old Anaheim Ducks rookie, was greeted by f-bomb chants galore, and at other points was quite literally ...

The Ducks fly south down the east coast for the second half of a weekend back-to-back, today facing off with the Carolina ...

But take heart, because a game Saturday represented the debut of former top prospect Cutter Gauthier at the WFC ... 185 to be the kind of elite defender that can control the flow of a game.

Things in the NHL have seemed to quiet down a bit, at least compared to the chaos we’ve experienced in the first few months ...