Jersey smells. I think he likes Vancouver better and already has made this city home for almost a decade. Canucks will give him a blank cheque and he is already the Captain of this team so I doubt he will leave to just play with his brothers.
Proposal: Value of Quinn Hughes
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Winning is probably important to him too so if he thinks he’ll have a better chance of winning with his brothers than the Canucks then he might consider moving. Probably depends heavily on what Vancouver can do this offseason to improve the team.
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Why wouldn't he leave his captaincy to go play with his family? Just because your named Captain doesn't mean you accepted this life long burden of carrying a single team on your shoulders forever. Especially when at the end of the day said team is getting worse by the year. At the end of the day I think playing with your brothers is more important than a letter on your chest. NJ is as good as a cup contender as any. Yeah they're not winning a cup this year but with the way NJ is built they will be in the playoffs year after year & is 100% going to be challenging for a cup. They have all the premium positions on lock. If Quinn joined NJ they would have a Hughes out on the ice at every single second of the game & would be trotting out some insane talent. Quinn, Jack, Luke, Nico, Bratt, Meier is a cup challenging core for sure.
Van is? Much closer than the Canucks. How is he leaving $ on the table going elsewhere? No, playing as the last trio of brothers since the Isles makes no sense at all!
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Hate to break it to you but he would be at minimum a 3-1 favorite to stay in Van and extend before this contract is up..............I really think anything else at this point is a long shot and the betting odds would show that.........
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That may be true, I just dont think so. Let me know where I can get some of that action, please! Van fans claiming it doesn't make it so. But you all know a little something about brothers on same team. 3 to 1, I love that
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Yeah don't see it at all...........makes for good press but there's no chance our management doesn't go super hard on resigning him.........I like our chances as I said I just don't see it at all he will be resigned as soon as he can sign a new contract.
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I don't know if Quinn Hughes will re-sign with Canucks, or sign with the devils, or someone else. It seems foolish to act as if he is guaranteed to end up in one location or another.
I'd argue with 99% sureity its Van or Jersey. the "somone else" is really not an option. If you have a betting site for this lemme know please!
At all, thats bold. No doubt they will go hard, that does not mean he just does what they want though. Doesnt mean he doesnt sign, but nothing you said makes it so either.
I really don't get this infatuation of playing with your brothers on HFboard. Like we have had Staal brothers, Niedermyer brothers that played separately for many years even decades and then they decided to play together only when they were at retirement age. None of them played together when they were still young and in their prime. Same with Hughes, their priority would be winning the cup and making as much money as possible and also being a key part of the team. Why would Quinn Hughes give up his captaincy and make less money in New Jersey holding his brother's bag? It doesn't make sense and maybe he doesnt even want to when he wants to carry his own team to the cup. Not all brothers are like Sedins that need to live together and play together and take the bus together and be roomies together. Also New Jersey Devils are not cup contenders and it shows. Being closer to being a cup contender doesn't mean much especially when things change fast. Last year Canucks were closer to being a cup contender than New Jersey. So its really a moot point to talk about it. I would only consider New Jersey a cup contender once they make the finals otherwise they are just another pretenders.
Seriously this is the same as when people were talking about how Drai wasn't going to sign in Edmonton until he did. Same BS is going around with Hughes not signing with Canucks. No one can read Hughes mind but I bet he will re-sign with Canucks and maybe even leave dollars on the table just based on his characteristic. He doesn't seem to be a greedy person and strikes me as very loyal. Its the reason why he was named Captain and its the reason why he probably will stay as a Canuck for a long time. Now if it was someone like Tkatchuk then I would worry about him signing somewhere else or signing to another team to play with his brother.
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I mean I wouldn't be so sure. Yea the obvious connections are there.
But if Jersey doesn't do anything in the playoffs the next two seasons I dont think hes a lock to go there. He'll certainly have his pick of teams to sign with and after spending the early part of his career not going on deep playoff runs, I dont know if hell want to commit to a team thats been lacking when it comes the playoff success.
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If one of the leagues best player is available, you try and acquire him even if it's only for one year.
Especially if you're a playoff team looking for that missing piece.
Hughes isn't the type that will abandon his team to play for another team. He is the Captain of our team and his characteristics doesn't strike me as the Miller or Tkatchuk types. He wants our team to win and I just dont see him wanting to go somewhere else, especially as a captain. He is similar to Sidney Crosby, those guys usually end up retiring with the team that drafted them. I think the only way he ends up on another team is if Canucks trade him to another team.
This is just speculations and dream scenarios made up by fans. Its interesting talking points that make for a good debate but at the end of the day, its all just fan made speculations. Similar to Draisaitl speculations of why he wouldn't sign with the Oilers. Realistically, does anyone really think Hughes will just sign somewhere else when Canucks would be handing him a blank cheque? Aqualini would have him signed or he would fire the whole front office if they just let Hughes walk or traded him for another rebuild. Aqualini didn't bring in Rutherford to go for another rebuild, he brought him to Canucks to make them a contender in a few years. Trading Miller was a big step back which they had no choice but trading Hughes or letting him walk would be signalling a rebuild which the owners don't want.
Lou Lams couldn't save Scott from leaving to play with his brother, thats why we lost him! You're making my point!
How does a top 3 defender, not help chances of winning a cup? Who says he takes pay cut? Giving up the C to win, thats pretty easy yes from any player. Hischier-C, Jack A, Quinn A
Jack and Quinn bought their summer house in MI together, they spend it on a lake with family and friends, again you're making my point.
Jersey lost: Their superstar, their best offensive defender and best defensive defender and goalie for a month. That would be Petey, Quinn and Marcus on your team? Your not in the playoofs now, how could you be if those injuries hit your team? Differnt when we're talking your players huh?
How do justify saying in the same post- "New Jersey Devils are not cup contenders and it shows" and "Being closer to being a cup contender doesn't mean much especially when things change fast." You cant have it both ways bud!
The turmoil in Van was your problem, is it solved? Playoffs look out of reach and the Miller saga has been over a bit. That is the epitome of pretenders.
Meanwhile in Jersey our GM is on record literal saying "no dickheads in our locker room"
I'm happy to continue having this pissing match, but its not why I commented
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If Canucks are pretenders, then so are the Devils. I don't see why Hughes would go to the Devils if winning was his priority. He would join Florida and play with his friend, Tkatchuk. And if you think his connections to his brother is so strong that he would be willing to leave the Canucks to join them, then he would have done it already before signing his 2nd contract.
When I say things change fast, I mean the injuries to key players that can knock you out of playoff spot. The Canucks had very bad luck this season with Hughes being injured for 14 games, Hronek for 3 months, Joshua being out for 3 months, Pettersson recovering from injury or hurt feelings, Miller leave of absents, Boeser injury, Demko being injured the whole year and even Garland that was an iron man for 6 years sustaining injury this year. We had to play with Deharnais as our top pair. The fact that Canucks are still a bubble team is a miracle. If same thing happened in New Jersey, they would be going for 1st overall instead of being in a playoff spot in the easy east. So don't think New Jersey is that superior to Canucks especially since Canucks have beaten Jersey this year with all their injury troubles and the only game Jersey beat Canucks, Canucks had to play with an ECHL caliber goalie in Silovs.
So what am saying, the only reason people talk about New Jersey being a destination for Hughes, is his brother and nothing else. I don't think that would be a strong reason for Hughes to leave the Canucks and if it was, again, he would have done it a long time ago.
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Vancouver ultimately needs to find out how committed Hughes is to Vancouver this offseason. I know they can’t re-sign him until July 2026, but I think Quinn is an honest guy and if he’s not interested in sticking around and leading this team to the promised land, then they should realistically be looking at a rebuild.
If they do keep Quinn then every pick/prospect should be on the table to improve the current roster.
If they do keep Quinn then every pick/prospect should be on the table to improve the current roster.
Power Surge
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Quinn to Jersey is something I would like to see.
I think it's great New Jersey is relevant again. I keep saying all the time, when all 3 NY teams (and both LA teams) are competitive it's better for the league. Especially when most of these teams have been down the past 20 years.
Well Quinn to Jersey is something I don't like to see. Because am rooting for my team and want Hughes to be a Canuck forever. Also NJ being a successful story never made the league any better or worst. I remember they winning cup with Stevens, Niedermyer and Brodeur, and no one really cared around the league except NJ fans. I remembers fans around the league complained about their logo being cartoonish rather than them praising NJ as cup champs.
Also I think the league cares more about Chicago, Boston and LA being more successful than it does NJ or even Buffalo.
Power Surge
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I didn't really read the full thread so I didn't know you were a Vancouver fan, I understand your feeling. No hard feelings.
You're 100% right about Chicago and Boston but they just had recent success, they can lay low a few years and they'll be fine.
New Jersey being successful or not won't make any difference for the NHL. NHL is a 32 team league and New Jersey is not that big of a market, same with Buffalo. New York Rangers being more successful would be something the NHL likes to see, because they are an original 6 team, have big media following and a huge fan base. NJD is really an after thought in New York state similar to Buffalo. Its like saying NHL cares about Ottawa being more successful than Toronto when all of us know most of Ontario follows the Leafs, heck maybe most of Canada.
