Is Quinn Hughes overrated?

[dubey]

Didn't really notice him tonight until Simmonds crumpled him

 

[snipes]

Doesn’t play great D, small and weak in his own zone. Defensive awareness and compete level leaves lot to be decided in his own zone.

Excellent offensive instincts and skating, development with D men is almost never linear. He might a rough few years ahead of him in his own zone.

 

[Killer Orcas]

Didn't really notice him tonight until Simmonds crumpled him

If you don't notice a Dman he's usually doing his job. Check the NHL stat sheet you'll notice Hughes there.

 

[Mighty Makar]

If you don't notice a Dman he's usually doing his job. Check the NHL stat sheet you'll notice Hughes there.

That’s all Huggy Bear cares about is points. 4th forward/PP specialist. That’s all!

 

[Craig Button]

The guy is 21 years old.
Leave him alone.
I hate these type of threads.

clearly this is a troll thread.

the kid is great.

let him season up a bit.

 

[avsfan9]

If you don't notice a Dman he's usually doing his job. Check the NHL stat sheet you'll notice Hughes there.

-3 in 7-3 loss. He really didn’t do his job!

 

[snipes]

 

[Killer Orcas]

That’s all Huggy Bear cares about is points. 4th forward/PP specialist. That’s all!

Well, when your playing for a crap defensive team yah that's all he can do. Canucks suck as everyone can see so far but at least he's showing offence he just needs to be average defensively and that will come.

-3 in 7-3 loss. He really didn’t do his job!

Well, when someone posts sarcasm you send it back .

 

[Mighty Makar]

That was a beautiful hit.

 

[The Vasili Jerry]

This thread seems like it's for Avs fans to hate on Hughes more.
Makar won the Calder. You guys have a great team. Just enjoy the good things you have.

 

[Three On Zero]

Trade Hughes for Makar or Heiskanen, any of the 3 would fail in the current role he’s expected to play. He’s a 21 year old offensive defenceman whoa expected to play both sides of the ice because Vancouver only has one other good defender

 

[cesareborgia]

Yes, very overrated. Watch him closely. He's a liability whenever he's on the ice, not a good hockey player.

 

[Critical13]

Special players make their teams better and others around them better, they don’t need others to make them better.

Hes a 20 year old defenceman...

 

[Killer Orcas]

This thread seems like it's for Avs fans to hate on Hughes more.
Makar won the Calder. You guys have a great team. Just enjoy the good things you have.

Yes however some just can't be happy they have to hate on others oh well. What can you do I suppose.

 

[mriswith]

Nate Schmidt was a top 2 defender on Vegas and carried that team.

However, he looks extremely pedestrian in every way on Vancouver.

Vancouver is imploding as a team right now and Hughes is in it with them. He's swimming against a riptide.

Where's the matching thread for Pettersson? The gap between Pettersson last season and this season is similar to the gap between Hughes last season and this season. Miller? Same deal.

Dialing in on Hughes right now is myopic and dumb.

 

[John Eichel da GOAT]

Can we move him to wing? D maybe just isnt his thing.

 

[FrozenJagrt]

Yes, very overrated. Watch him closely. He's a liability whenever he's on the ice, not a good hockey player.

He's a great hockey player. Offense is an important part of the game.

Unfortunately, he was getting abused by the Leafs skilled guys tonight.

 

[Mighty Makar]

He gets walked every game. Lol.

 

[John Eichel da GOAT]

Trade Hughes for Makar or Heiskanen, any of the 3 would fail in the current role he’s expected to play. He’s a 21 year old offensive defenceman whoa expected to play both sides of the ice because Vancouver only has one other good defender

Thats actually a really good theory to dispute. I think Makar and Heiskanen are that good defensively, they would drastically improve the Canucks.

 

[hamzarocks]

I think if he played with a Brodie/Muzzin type guy who has solid defensive awareness and could handle the puck well enough to get it to him to play his elite offensive game he would be a lot less troubled in his own zone.

To me his ceiling will be a better version of Morgan rielly who is a 15-25 best dmen in the league right now imo.

I think Hughes ends in the 8-15 range and is a yearly fringe top 10 defenseman in the league.

His defense due to frame and size will always be questionable but as he gets older he will get smart and take safer routes.

Offensively he is the 2nd best young defenseman in the game after Makar and no one except Dahlin has a shot of being better than him in the offensive zone

(see him being better offensively than all of byram/dysadale/sanderson/power/lambos/clarke/heiskanen/chabot/mcavoy/werenski/Provorov)

 

[Three On Zero]

Thats actually a really good theory to dispute. I think Makar and Heiskanen are that good defensively, they would drastically improve the Canucks.

Not with what they have to work with

 

[John Eichel da GOAT]

Nate Schmidt was a top 2 defender on Vegas and carried that team.

However, he looks extremely pedestrian in every way on Vancouver.

Vancouver is imploding as a team right now and Hughes is in it with them. He's swimming against a riptide.

Where's the matching thread for Pettersson? The gap between Pettersson last season and this season is similar to the gap between Hughes last season and this season. Miller? Same deal.

Dialing in on Hughes right now is myopic and dumb.

I completely forgot he was traded. Hows he look? That was my theory in other threads that the Canucks system was far inferior to the Knights and he would be exposed.

 

[John Eichel da GOAT]

Not with what they have to work with

Great defensmen make it work. Karlsson Sens style. Obviously well never find out until the Avs or Stars massively regress, but interesting thought.

 

[mriswith]

I completely forgot he was traded. Hows he look? That was my theory in other threads that the Canucks system was far inferior to the Knights and he would be exposed.

System?

You must be confused. Green doesn't have a system.

 

[Three On Zero]

Vancouver has Hughes and Schmidt and then the defence drops off a cliff. You can even see it in Schmidt’s game, he’s nothing like he was on Vegas