Confirmed Signing with Link: [VAN] Quinn Hughes re-signs with the Canucks (6 years, $7.85M AAV)

[LickTheEnvelope]

Sounds like Hughes at $7.75 mil for 6 years and Pettersson at $7.5 mil for 3 years then he will get all the cap space thereafter when Myer's contract is over.

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

I like this deal for both sides. Canucks get him at a decent cap hit and decent term. Hughes gets paid and becomes a UFA at 27 which lines him up perfectly to get paid extremely well

 

[CpatainCanuck]

Sounds like Hughes at $7.75 mil for 6 years and Pettersson at $7.5 mil for 3 years then he will get all the cap space thereafter when Myer's contract is over.

 

[c3po]

HOLY OVERPAYMENT

the kid hasn't even played a full season in the nhl

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Lol if true. Vancouver is going to be bad for a long time.

Same old hfboard that has memory of a goldfish

 

[platotld]

HOLY OVERPAYMENT

the kid hasn't even played a full season in the nhl

Umm which kid ?

Huggy bear who played 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 ?

 

[CpatainCanuck]

Should forsure be... the comparables shouldn't put him near 8. I would say 7 at the very most is fair

There are a myriad of comparables, but one of them is Kotkaniemi with a career high of 34 points signing a $6.1 million offersheet.

I'm sure Pettersson's agent wasn't above using an offersheet threat to keep the Canucks honest.

 

[Phrasing]

HOLY OVERPAYMENT

the kid hasn't even played a full season in the nhl

Man, really? Think critically as to why hasn’t played 82 games. Hint: it’s not his fault.

I mean neither has Makar? Or Fox?

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Americans don’t understand it’s hard to retain non Canadian players in Canada especially when your team isn’t a contender

 

[SupremeTeam16]

This seems like the opposite of what they should do. Bridge Hughes and lock Pettersson up longer, of course it all depends on what the player is looking for but I think EP is the better bet to be worth an expensive long term deal.

If Pettersson does end up signing for 3 years. What’s his contract status at the end? Could he just accept a qualifying offer for a year that would walk him to UFA?

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

Fine deal. Ironically if the Nucks had Chris Tanev i'd actually be pretty good with a core of:

OEL - Poolman
Hughes - Tanev
Rathbone - Myers
Juolevi - Schenn

Hamonic going AWOL it seems... hopefully the d-core can be carried by a pretty solid forward group and Demko until near the deadline.

 

[Strangelove]

the kid hasn't even played a full season in the nhl

Well he's played 129 NHL regular season games (97 points) and 17 playoff games (16 points).

 

[TheHelmet]

Its not great

But it also isnt the worst like that Nurse deal

 

[thebigbea]

I don't blame Hughes trying to get as much as possible.. Vancouver is an expensive city and taxed out the ass!!

Seems fair though for both sides I guess

I’m sure these players get deals for living at one of aquilini towers

 

[BWJM]

Suck it Jack... we get 1 year of UFA.

 

[SKNJD9]

See ya when you're 28 Quinn

 

[TheKingSlayer]

Same old hfboard that has memory of a goldfish

Lots hinges on OEL this year. If he stays awful defensively, Hughes is bad, Hamonic may opt out... that d core is going to be putrid. They don't have the team to get around that dcore for 82 games and even worse in the playoffs.

 

[JT Kreider]

HOLY OVERPAYMENT

the kid hasn't even played a full season in the nhl

Didn't Kaprizov just get $9 million?

This is a smart signing compared to every other move Vancouver has made. I'd rather overpay a young player as an investment in my future as opposed to paying for another teams past.

 

[Bobby9]

750K overpaid and I’m a Nucks fan.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Lots hinges on OEL this year. If he stays awful defensively, Hughes is bad, Hamonic may opt out... that d core is going to be putrid. They don't have the team to get around that dcore for 82 games and even worse in the playoffs.

One slumping season in his 2nd year
Again, memory of goldfish

 

[tantalum]

Makes sense. I know there are defensive concerns but fact is his offensive numbers being something rarely seen in the last 30 years is what is going to drive the value. On a long term I didn’t figure it would be much below 8 per.

 

[Zirakzigil]

Seems like a decent deal for both.

 

[vanarchy]

Oh now you've done it.

Getting war-like flashbacks to the dumb Hughes/Makar threads.

 

[M2Beezy]

I predicted 6 years at $7.7 million for Hughes so this is slightly over what I thought it would and should be. That extra $50 000 could be CRUCIAL

 

[Three On Zero]

Decent deal for one of the top offensive D in the league