Cutter Gauthier is strangely benched twice in the same game

It's a quiet Thursday morning in Philadelphia. There's a new chill in the air that makes us feel like fall has fast-tracked through its typical steps and we're heading straight to the point where we just want to stay inside. With ice hockey it's much easier to bear.

Our beloved Philadelphia Flyers are playing their final game of their season-opening road trip in Seattle, and as we want to start thinking about this game and how important it can be ahead of Saturday's home opener, we're starting to imagine the noise from The Farg , we can't stop thinking about something that happened elsewhere in the NHL last night.

The Ducks met the Utah Hockey Club in Anaheim on Wednesday evening. A game that only the really crazy neutralists would like, but we may have missed something funny.

Cutter Gauthier – the infamous former Flyers prospect who was forced to leave town because he didn't want to play for that team, throwing a tantrum and refusing to talk to NHL legends because he thought he had it deserved to play in the best league in the world as a teenager – was benched not once, but twice.

In the end, the Ducks won the game against Utah in overtime with a score of 5-4, but that's not the point here. Because of his on-ice errors in the second period, Gauthier was benched for an extended period of time, from 11:22 of the middle period to 1:49 of the third period. A very solid period in which the Ducks actually managed to score and take a 3-2 lead by the second intermission.

Gauthier probably thought everything was clear to him. He has survived his penalty and can now start the final frame with a blank slate. And, well, he probably could have, but he opted for controller unplugged mode on Utah's equalizer because he was so slow in checking that he went out of frame on the broadcast.