Player Discussion Quinn Hughes, Pt. VII

[VanJack]

Canucks had better pray Hughes stays healthy all season.......because without him, this isn't the blueline of even a playoff team in the West.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Canucks had better pray Hughes stays healthy all season.......because without him, this isn't the blueline of even a playoff team in the West.

They will be forced to run him in to the ground with how bad our bottom 4 is.

 

[HockeyWooot]

Captain Hughes with a nice start to the year looks like he’s primed to level up again.

 

[Knight53]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1854036719009472641

 

[Breakers]

He should be a finalist for the Norris again

If he maintained his play and underlying numbers through this first 11 games he should win it.

His underlying numbers and game scores are 15% higher than Kaprizov who is dominating right now

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Too small. Can't play D.

 

[Lemmiwinks]

Probably my favourite Canuck ever. I didn’t think that would happen so soon after watching the Sedins

 

[HockeyWooot]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1854036719009472641

That’s some elite company.

We are lucky to have him on the team.

 

[DimitriL07]

This guy is different

 

[Regal]

Too small. Can't play D.

Finally someone said it

 

[sandwichbird2023]

His play so far this year is even more impressive than his Norris winning season last year! Imagine if we have a healthy JTM and a 100% Petey, Hughes' counting stat could be double with all the chances he generates. This level of dominance is pretty special, he should be getting some Hart vote this year if he keeps this up.

 

[ephmrl]

Best player in Canucks history, and I don't say that lightly. It's almost hard to appreciate how good he is as a player when he's routinely tilting the ice every game and you start to consider that normal, but then you watch other teams play and none of them have a defenseman that can control the game like Hughes does.

His prime is probably the best chance of the Canucks winning a Stanley Cup for the foreseeable future. I'm just going to try to appreciate what he does on the ice every game while we still have him playing for us, because time moves fast, and it still feels like yesterday I was watching the Sedins routinely make plays that no other players were able to make.

 

[kanucks25]

Don't know who I should thank more, Jim Benning or Ken Holland

 

[Flik]

Don't know who I should thank more, Jim Benning or Ken Holland

Jim and Ellen Hughes imo

 

[NailsHoglander]

Too small. Can't play D.

that's a small body gentleman, a small body

 

[HockeyWooot]

He’s levelled up, again.

Absolute monster out there, he may get Hart consideration if he keeps this up.

 

[HairyKneel]

They will be forced to run him in to the ground with how bad our bottom 4 is.

No they won't.

 

[Quinntessential]

He just needs to learn how to overcome the physical beatings he will take in the playoffs and remain as effective as he is in the regular season. That will be his final form.

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Best defenseman in the NHL. What else is there to say lol.

 

[rypper]

Fun to reminisce:

https://x.com/i/web/status/1002190842700873729

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

He's somehow better than he was last year. Doesn't have as many points because Pettersson isn't doing anything, but the way he controls the ice is just insane. The other team can't do anything but hope he passes to someone else so they can turn it over.

 

[Jyrki21]

Hughes is amazing, but I do worry about all these minutes he's racking up in the early season. He was quite worn down by the time last year's playoffs rolled around, and it'd be nice for the coaching staff to adapt.

Don't know who I should thank more, Jim Benning or Ken Holland

In this case it's probably more John Weisbrod than anything (yuck). He was family friends with the Hugheses from their Orlando days, and Quinn was always the apple of his eye in the 2018 draft. Not like they really had a giant decision to make once he fell into their laps, though – most anyone but Brian Burke would have taken him there.

 

[olafsson]

Fun to reminisce:

https://x.com/i/web/status/1002190842700873729

SO glad that didn’t go through

 

[SillyRabbit]

I don't know how Hughes is supposed to win another Norris this year with Makar outscoring him by 9 points already.

Now, Hughes is leading his team in scoring, whereas Makar is playing with MacKinnon.

The difference between Hughes highest scoring teammate and Makar's highest scoring teammate is 18 points.

In fact, the Avalanche have four players with more points than Hughes' highest scoring teammate.

Funnily enough, Hughes has been better than Makar on the defensive end of the puck this season, but the narrative favoring Makar as the better defender is so strong that it will be hard to convince people of that.

Hughes is playing at a Norris level this season but I don't think he will be able to win back-to-back. The media won't allow it.

 

[rypper]

I don't know how Hughes is supposed to win another Norris this year with Makar outscoring him by 9 points already.

Now, Hughes is leading his team in scoring, whereas Makar is playing with MacKinnon.

The difference between Hughes highest scoring teammate and Makar's highest scoring teammate is 18 points.

In fact, the Avalanche have four players with more points than Hughes' highest scoring teammate.

Funnily enough, Hughes has been better than Makar on the defensive end of the puck this season, but the narrative favoring Makar as the better defender is so strong that it will be hard to convince people of that.

Hughes is playing at a Norris level this season but I don't think he will be able to win back-to-back. The media won't allow it.

Avs fan showing that Hughes lives rent free in their head, couldn't resist reacting to your post.

I'm buying the hype that Drance and other local media types are selling that Hughes has elevated his play beyond Norris talk into Hart discussion with the way he controls the game.

Unless Miller and Pettersson start going and the powerplay picks up, I can't see the Norris being awarded to Hughes if the points gap is large even if he's clearly the better player.