[Sportsnet Stats] Quinn Hughes is the first defenceman to be the first NHL player to reach 30 points in a season since Bobby Orr in 1974-75
#Canucks Quinn Hughes
First defenceman to be the first NHL player to reach 30 points in a season since Bobby Orr in 1974-75
— Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) November 21, 2023
by Sarcastic__
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Hughes is the heart and soul of this Canucks franchise. Hope he retires a Canuck and in the process convinces any siblings he has to join the Canucks.
He is the best hockey player to put on a Canucks jersey
3B 🤷♂️
And yet he’s still only 3 points up on Makar. Its horrible to think but this amazing season might be marred by a Makar robbery of the Norris.
This is kind of confusing wording but this is insane and is worth restating:
Quinn Hughes is the first player in the league to reach the 30 point mark. That last time this was achieved by a defensemen was Bobby Orr in 1974-75
Hey I’ve heard of that guy
Quinn Hughes and Bobby Orr. I can get used to hearing those names in the same sentence.
He became my favorite player during his draft year. I couldn’t f****in believe the Canucks got to draft him. I was speechless. I expected him to maybe be a 60-pointer type of guy, weak on D, not have a letter on his jersey due to his, at the time, monotone / deadpan demeanor. And I was cool with all that. It was his completely unique and mysterious playing style that drew me in. But to see him now as a badass superstar captain just smoking 🚬 top line NHLers night in and night out, making a case for not only a Norris, but a Hart trophy? Wow. F***ing wow. Can’t lose with Hughes. He deserves all of it and this city is beyond lucky to have him.
For context, someone pointed out that we’ve only had two defencemen this past decade put up 30+ points in an entire SEASON (Garrison and Edler).
God save the Quinn
Simply lovely!
There an easier way to write that title.
[Now Quinn lives in Bobby Orr’s house](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxe6rK3ha_fXEu2QoTPRv9RLKe3LGWphVu?si=_p-VOTnoTS7k55Kx)
Quinn Hughmungous
[Wow. That young lad’s a defenceman? He has better hands than I did! Wow](https://www.reddit.com/r/canucks/comments/eu1tzn/wayne_gretzky_praising_quinn_hughes_after_he/)
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect wed get a dman as good as Hughes. To be honest before Hughes and Makar I didnt even know dman this good still existed lol