Is Quinn Hughes overrated?

[The Price is Right]

I think his defensive play is horrible. He has 11 points and a -6. 17 goals have been scored when he is on the ice... I can't see how people think he might be a Norris candidate

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[oXo Cube]

Yes he is, just like every other productive young defenseman ever.

However, being overrated and being bad are not the same thing, which is a distinction that this board tends to miss often.

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

He's a very good offensive defenseman with dynamic puck skills and is an excellent passer. His defense is a little shaky but he's also only a sophomore in the NHL. He's got a long way to go still.

Give the kid a break, will ya?

 

[MXD]

I think his defensive play is horrible. He has 11 points and a -6. 17 goals have been scored when he is on the ice... I can't see how people think he might be a Norris candidate

He just happened to have been awful for the 4 games you saw him.
(Of course he's not great defensively and shouldn't win the Norris, but he's better than what he shown against Montreal).

 

[BCNate]

He's a 21 YO sophomore and leading the league in D scoring. He has some time to figure out the defensive side of the game.

 

[Dominance]

Elite distributor with the puck on his stick, but poor defensively. Hughes is overrated but only because some continue to cast him as something he is not. None of this is to say he can’t become a Carlson-level defenseman who gets Norris votes for his offensive prowess each year.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Overrated no

 

[Dominance]

He's a 21 YO sophomore and leading the league in D scoring. He has some time to figure out the defensive side of the game.

That’s rather disingenuous.

 

[BCNate]

That’s rather disingenuous.

No, just numbers.

 

[Dominance]

No, just numbers.

He’s tied with two players who have multiple games in hand on him, and 9th among defensemen who have played multiple games this season in P/G.

 

[Waterbuf]

He's a "new breed" offensive defenseman. Not good defensively. Not rocket science, don't see why it would deserve a thread.

 

[LuckyBoeser]

I do think a lot of the young defensemen in the NHL are overrated to some degree Hughes included. With that being said, he is very good but it no question that he is struggling defensively right now. He is having a difficult time defending in front of the net and often allow rushes into his own zone. Part of it is lack of structure within the system that Green deploys in Vancouver and part of it is an individual issue.

 

[Sky04]

If you think he's a #1 defenseman then yes but as far as offense goes from the blueline he's one of the best, not just for his age.

 

[BCNate]

He’s tied with two players who have multiple games in hand on him, and 9th among defensemen who have played multiple games this season in P/G.

....but has 11 points, which leads the league in D scoring.

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

Yes he is, just like every other productive young defenseman ever.

However, being overrated and being bad are not the same thing, which is a distinction that this board tends to miss often.

This. I’d wager that about 10% of the league is properly “rated”.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Eh, not really. Is he as good as established elite 1Ds? No.

But I think most rate him highly because he’s doing the most rare/hard to find things for a defender (puck moving and offensive driving/production) at an extremely high level at a very young age, and is a special skater who can break open a shift.

His feet give him potential to be good in his own end one day, even if he isn’t amazing right now.

I personally like Heiskanen the most of the young stud D but I think Quinn deserves the credit and fanfare he gets. He will be a top player in the league for a long time and has room to grow on top of an already exciting package.

(I think yes, if you consider him a top 3 Norris candidate right now youre definitely overrating him.)

 

[Claypool]

Is he playing PK yet?

 

[wintersej]

He is excellent and I would love to have him on my team. I don’t think he is overrated per say, but that the young defensemen that are more two way guys that go against top competition like Miro and McAvoy are underrated in relation.

 

[Junohockeyfan]

Quinn Hughes sucks at defense. He is currently a 1 dimensional dman.

 

[The Price is Right]

I would never trust him to in the last minutes to keep a lead. He has #1 D puck moving skill but a bottom 6 D in defense

 

[MessierII]

He’s a typical offensive D man who struggles in his own end. Being small doesn’t help.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

In another era he'd be a rover. I prefer to think of him as an offensive catalyst rather than a d-man.

 

[Hockey Joe]

Every Van-MTL games they kept saying how good he was while showing clips of him getting blown by or falling down.

 

[MattySnipes]

He's a good ofd. He's struggling a bit this year which is normal for sophomore, combine that with no Tanev, new crap goalie, etc.

He'll be aright you gotta be patient. Don't give up on a talent like that. He'll make you pay.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

He's one of the best players in the league in my opinion, one of the top-five defenseman in the league too.