Confirmed with Link: Quinn Hughes wins the James Norris Memorial Trophy (Top Defensemen)

[krutovsdonut]

this is fantastic and well deserved. also a real milestone for this franchise to me as a longtime fan. we have never to my recall had a norris finaliist before let alone a winner and we have never had a dman in his class. hughes is an amazing player who makes us better and leads the team.

also, not a popular thing to say but every canuck fan owes a debt to benning and weisbrod for hughes. right after detroit passed on hughes when their coach had just had him at the wc tournament, those two guys were clearly super excited to get hims and benning was dead right about the home run. i know people here hate to give credit to benning for anything, let alone weisbrod, but this time it is due. i tip my hat to them and thank them for finally getting us a 1d.

 

[lawrence]

Winner was announced on may 28

 

[krutovsdonut]

Can we all take time to truly appreciate the GM who was responsible for bringing Hughes to Vancouver?


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well played

Hughes (and Miller!) got some Hart love, too!

that is some serious voting for hughes there.

 

[ziploc]

Hughes (and Miller!) got some Hart love, too!

Rough week for Oilers fans

 

[bh53]

Winner was announced on may 28

No, it wasn't.

I follow that page and it's his own winners through a vote of people that follow him.

In his version, the followers voted Kucherov as the winner for Hart. Everything else was the same.

 

[lawrence]

No, it wasn't.

I follow that page and it's his own winners through a vote of people that follow him.

In his version, the followers voted Kucherov as the winner for Hart. Everything else was the same.

yea but if you scroll right or left it shows the voting break downs.

this was accidental leak I think.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

yea but if you scroll right or left it shows the voting break downs.

this was accidental leak I think.

those aren’t the real results though

 

[quat]

You feel he's got what it takes to bring a cup to Vancouver. I hope this inspires Pettersson's competitive streak and next season is perfect for Canuck fans.

 

[bbud]

I knocked his d hard first few years and can't be happier matured he learned and uses the amazing skating and smarts to be a solid dman.
Doubt it'll be his last congratulations cap )

 

[valkynax]

You feel he's got what it takes to bring a cup to Vancouver. I hope this inspires Pettersson's competitive streak and next season is perfect for Canuck fans.

The players sounded like sharks who just got a taste of fresh blood. Hoping this will morph into frenzied motivation for the ultimate glory.

 

[ahmon]

well deserved, think he should have been higher on the Hart voting as well.

I can't imagine how the canucks would look without him on the team.

 

[alternate]

Congrats to Quinn. Well deserved.

 

[ziploc]

He's no Jim Sandlak, that's for sure.

Sure, but who is?

 

[Red]

Well deserved

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

forget higher in hart voting, he should have won the hart, full stop

that speech, what a gentleman. and so prepared and rehearsed. that is a man who knew without a shadow of a doubt he was the best dman in the league.

we went so long without anything resembling a franchise dman, and i always thought, if we ever get one it will be transformative like nothing we’ve ever seen before. a true franchise dman will affect every inch of the ice. and you know, it turned out to be true. more than two superstar wingers finishing second and third in scoring, more than even an mvp and selke 1-2 punch down the middle, finally having a franchise d is just an absolute revelation. he is an engine like i’ve never seen on this team before.

we are so lucky

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Congratulations QH..well deserved.

 

[VanJack]

Kinda surprised the vote wasn't even very close.....Quinn captured all but 22 first place votes with 178 in total.

The Canucks first Norris Trophy winner after 54 seasons. And if he stays healthy, he's still young enough that he could win a few more. A special talent and one of the most dynamic players in the history of the franchise.

 

[Hit the post]

I'll admit, I never thought his defensive play would be good enough this soon. I figured he'd eventually win the Norris purely on his offensive play.

 

[bh53]

yea but if you scroll right or left it shows the voting break downs.

this was accidental leak I think.

Those votes are fan votes. It's different from the actual voting. The actual voting had Roman Josi second. That has Cale Makar at second.

 

[lawrence]

I'll admit, I never thought his defensive play would be good enough this soon. I figured he'd eventually win the Norris purely on his offensive play.

thank Adam foote, Gonchar and Tocchet for it. Tocchets philosophy is 5% better. 5% better. What can you do to make yourselves 5% better ?

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

It's disappointing that he wasn't able to carry that level of play throughout the playoffs, or we would have likely gone much further.

Having said that - the single most dominant season by a defenceman in team history. He was f***ing ridiculous for all 82 in the regular season.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Hughes named as one of the first six players for Team USA at the 4-Nations Tournament along with Fox, McAvoy, Eichel, Matthews and Tkachuk.

 

[Regress2TheMeme]

"That's a small body, gentlemen" - Brian Burke

 

[Hit the post]

Canucks US amateur scouts with another win (and yes, it being a 1st round selection, Jim Benning should get full credit as well). Meanwhile Ron Delorme is back in Sweden looking for the next EP.

 

[valkynax]

"That's a small body, gentlemen" - Brian Burke

Side note, I did enjoy what Burke said about the draft interview process and how he would ask a random question to throw the prospects off, as most of them were likely to give coached answers to the standard questions.

And how he said Yakupov was an arrogant little shit who got put on the Leafs' no draft list.