Quinn Hughes is having a Hart caliber season

[wetcoast]

Reminder that Quinn Hughes is a defenseman who plays as little defense as possible.

You're out to lunch people who watch him play know how good he is at both ends of the ice.

 

[wetcoast]

How you tell me you havent read the previous 15 pages without telling it directly.

It's weird how some people think that if a bad take is repeated enough that somehow it gains some truth?

That might happen in social media but in reality Quinn has been the best all around defender this year and maybe missing games might keep him from winning the Norris, not 15 pages of bad takes.

 

[Il Stugotz]

Quinn picked up a lower body injury from this check

 

[Canucks LB]

Reminder that Quinn Hughes is a defenseman who plays as little defense as possible.

 

[Grifter3511]

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It's okay. He just has an incredibly archaic view of what it means to play a particular position in today's NHL.

Ben Franklin: Defensemen need to do X, Y and Z. They HAVE to.

Modern day humans: um, sure. But they can also do A, B and C. And this guy does A, B and C so well he helps his team more than some of the best X, Y, Z players in the league.

Ben Franklin: hurr durr...defensemen big and strong. Must stand in front of net, push people hard, only thing matters.

 

[Colorado Avalanche]

Quinn Hughes now has 1 more point than Makar in 8 less games. The reason why Makar is a regular on the PK is because the Refalanche D-Corps is absolute ass, having ECHL level garbage in Keaton Middleton and Girard as regulars.

Makar is the uncle Rico of the nhl. Peaked early and people constantly bring up how good he used to be lol. Quinn Hughes has been better offensively and defensively for 2 years now, and that's without riding Mackinnon and Rantanen's jockstraps

This dude gets it right.

 

[Regal]

It's okay. He just has an incredibly archaic view of what it means to play a particular position in today's NHL.

Ben Franklin: Defensemen need to do X, Y and Z. They HAVE to.

Modern day humans: um, sure. But they can also do A, B and C. And this guy does A, B and C so well he helps his team more than some of the best X, Y, Z players in the league.

Ben Franklin: hurr durr...defensemen big and strong. Must stand in front of net, push people hard, only thing matters.

The thing that I don’t get is that the argument is never complete. Like, Hughes doesn’t play as hard minutes as some other defensemen, mostly due to team makeup (though definitely not sheltered minutes like he tries to claim because of misusing zone starts). Ok, that’s fair, so how do those somewhat easier minutes affect his production and on-ice results and do they negate his advantages there? That’s the second part of the argument that’s always missing. Instead everything he does is somehow dismissed as “doesn’t play defense”, which is nonsense

 

[nucks88]

Quinn picked up a lower body injury from this check

Edit......not worth the effort