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We’re going over Vancouver Canucks defenceman Quinn Hughes, and the controversy on social media regarding his player tier ranking from The Athletic.
Article: https://theathletic.com/4863183/2023/09/18/nhl-best-players-list-2023-2024-season/
This video is taking place after the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2022 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) Montreal Canadiens, Juraj Slafkovsky
2nd) New Jersey Devils, Simon Nemec
3rd) Arizona Coyotes, Logan Cooley
4th) Seattle Kraken, Shane Wright
5th) Philadelphia Flyers, Cutter Gauthier
6th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), David Jiricek
7th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Ottawa Senators), Kevin Korchinski
8th) Detroit Red Wings, Marco Kasper
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Matthew Savoie
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Pavel Mintyukov
11th) Arizona Coyotes (from San Jose Sharks), Conor Geekie
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Denton Mateychuk
13th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Frank Nazar
14th) Winnipeg Jets, Rutger McGroarty
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Jonathan Lekkerimaki
16th) Buffalo Sabres (Vegas Golden Knights), Noah Ostlund
17th) Nashville Predators, Joakim Kemell
18th) Dallas Stars, Lian Bichsel
19th) Minnesota Wild (from LA Kings), Liam Ohgren
20th) Washington Capitals, Ivan Miroshnichenko
21st) Pittsburgh Penguins, Owen Pickering
22nd) Anaheim Ducks (from Boston Bruins), Nathan Gaucher
23rd) St. Louis Blues, Jimmy Snuggerud
24th) Minnesota Wild, Danila Yurov
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Rinzel
26th) Montreal Canadiens (from Calgary Flames), Filip Mesar
27th) San Jose Sharks (from Carolina Hurricanes via Arizona Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens), Filip Bystedt
28th) Buffalo Sabres (from Florida Panthers), Jiri Kulich
29th) Arizona Coyotes (from Edmonton Oilers), Maveric Lamoureux
30th) Winnipeg Jets (from New York Rangers), Brad Lambert
31st) Tampa Bay Lightning, Isaac Howard
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Colorado Avalanche via Arizona Coyotes), Reid Schaefer
This video is also taking place after 2022 NHL Season, and after the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Colorado Avalanche defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Finals.
Quinn Hughes was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.
The 2018 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:
1st – Buffalo Sabres, Rasmus Dahlin
2nd – Carolina Hurricanes, Andrei Svechnikov
3rd – Montreal Canadiens, Jesperi Kotkaniemi
4th – Ottawa Senators, Brady Tkachuk
5th – Arizona Coyotes, Barrett Hayton
6th – Detroit Red Wings, Filip Zadina
7th – Vancouver Canucks, Quinn Hughes
8th – Chicago Blackhawks, Adam Boqvist
9th – New York Rangers, Vitali Kravtsov
10th – Edmonton Oilers, Evan Bouchard
11th – New York Islanders, Oliver Wahlstrom
12th – New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames), Noah Dobson
13th – Dallas Stars, Ty Dellandrea
14th – Philadelphia Flyers (from St. Louis Blues), Joel Farabee
15th – Florida Panthers, Grigori Denisenko
16th – Colorado Avalanche, Martin Kaut
17th – New Jersey Devils, Ty Smith
18th – Columbus Blue Jackets, Liam Foudy
19th – Philadelphia Flyers, Jay O’Brien
20th – Los Angeles Kings, Rasmus Kupari
21st – San Jose Sharks, Ryan Merkley
22nd – New York Rangers (from Pittsburgh Penguins via Ottawa Senators), K’Andre Miller
23rd – Anaheim Ducks, Isac Lundestrom
24th – Minnesota Wild, Filip Johansson
25th – St. Louis Blues (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Dominik Bokk
26th – Ottawa Senators (from Boston Bruins via New York Rangers), Jacob Bernard-Docker
27th – Chicago Blackhawks (from Nashville Predators), Nicolas Beaudin
28th – New York Rangers (from Tampa Bay Lightning), Nils Lundkvist
29th – Toronto Maple Leafs (from Winnipeg Jets via St. Louis Blues), Rasmus Sandin
30th – Detroit Red Wings (from Vegas Golden Knights), Joe Veleno
31st – Washington Capitals, Alexander Alexeyev
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Let the talking bobble heads under rate and under value Quinn Hughes , these so called experts are talking just to hear their own chatter .
I think he should be at least in the same category as Ekblad and the comment of "Hes the same dude plugging along" is so mean, dismissive and belittling towards Hughes' development as a hockey player. He is not the same guy, he is far better in the dzone now than his rookie season and has improved his point total each year.
Quinn is fresh offhis best season of 76 point season where he averaged 25 minutes a game and a +15.
How did Ekblad do last season? Ekblad put up 38 points and a -14 playing for a cup finalist.
Adam Fox's best season saw him put up 72 points and +28 playing for a much better team.
I would also like Dom to explain the reasoning behind these comments. Why do these scouts think so little of Hughes, and why do they think he is "The same dude plugging along"? Evidence please.
Dom who…. the athletic is actually still writing material? Guess you can find pundits under all sources of rocks
According to the nhl stats, Quinn Hughes is 14th amongs defenceman. Looks like they ranked him too high. No way that could possibly change after all the teams play tonight.
last year he was 'plugging along'. with a year end +15 with 76 points. i'll take that all day and if i could have any d man in the league, makar is the only guy in the league that i would select over quinn.
6 games? More like the last 2 years. The quotes were really revieling as to how out of touch they were with reality.
Most of the goofs voting on these things are from down east and they're not watching a western game, unless Colorado or Vegas are involved or it's being played in their time zone. Vancouver has struggled when this since I became a fan in 1990. I remember when Hockey Night In Canada would force me to watch the rest of a nothing Leafs game, causing me to miss the first 10 minutes of a Canucks game on the regular. Things seemed to get a little better in the 2000s, but then Rogers took over and it's even worse. East coast rules.
Lol. No way quinn hughes is a 3b tier rank. Lol
The thing is we know that Hughes is a top 10 dman in the league he showed us that last year when his name was thrown around in vezna conversations. This year so far he’s just solidifying those discussions. Canucks collectively have let in 17 goals this year out of those 17 Quinn has been on the ice for 1 of those. So people that say his defence is subpar you obviously do not watch Canucks hockey or pay attention to the advanced analytics of this team. I seen a tweet the other day of a representation of Hughes Vs dahlin and with Hughes having over 30 games less he has 20 points more and a better plus minus by over 50 goals against yet people still will put dahlin higher because he’s a 6 foot 1st overall dman which makes no sense. Dahlin isn’t a bust he’s a good player but Hughes simply put is more dominant. So it just erks me align with a lot of other Canucks fans especially ones like all of us that watch breakdowns like this that understand the analytics of the game that he doesn’t get respect he deserves
East coast bias or bias against west coast teams is real they consistently under rate west coast players cause they don't always stay up to watch them as much i remember when they did their top 100 players of all time list they left Kopitar off the list, and had Jonathan Towes close to the top 50 which is crazy considering Kopitar is/was arguably better
No. Keep tagging him. He needs to feel the consequences of making such an idiotic posts and fighting the fans about it on social media. Its super unprofessional, and deserves the hate that he is getting
The athletic? Who dat?