Article: Overpaying For Quinn Hughes Is Impossible

[Tony Abbott]

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[Will D. Ness]

What is more of a gamble:

Zeev becoming a Norris type D or Hughes signing an extension?

We spent a lot of assets on Hughes when Zeev might fill that role for pennies on the dollar in both cap space and with zero capital.  

Also, could we have used that capital to acquire a top line forward?

There is opportunity cost that comes into play here.

With that said... I'm generally psyched to see what Hughes can do on this team... especially as the PP1QB.

[Willy the poor boy]

7 minutes ago, Will D. Ness said:

What is more of a gamble:

Zeev becoming a Norris type D or Hughes signing an extension?

We spent a lot of assets on Hughes when Zeev might fill that role for pennies on the dollar in both cap space and with zero capital.  

Also, could we have used that capital to acquire a top line forward?

There is opportunity cost that comes into play here.

With that said... I'm generally psyched to see what Hughes can do on this team... especially as the PP1QB.

All Fletch has to do is publicly say 'no one will outbid us for Quinn' and we're in like Flynn. Resign all but guaranteed.

[MacGyver]

What will it take to resign Hughes? Makar money whatever that is going to be? Then you got $17M into what could be your third best player on the team behind Hughes and maybe Boldy if he keeps trending. Hughes may make Kaprizov's contract look like you over paid for Kaprizov which I felt is true from the start. 

[Pewterschmidt]

All the prospects and futures Guerin has dealt away for Nyquist, Jiri project™️, brazzo, and now Hughes means the prospect pool/farm will look like the Fletcher era prospect pool for next five years.  Guerin is going all in on the current core + yurov for top 6, Hartman and Gus get dealt for a top 6 forward, and the Stramel’s and Lorenz’s fill out the bottom 6.  Is this group now one top 6 forward away from a deep Cup run?   

[Burnt Toast]

22 minutes ago, MacGyver said:

Makar money

I think you’re right on the $. It will be interesting to see who gets resigned first and for how much. Both are locked up through next year’s season. If QH wants to stay I’m confident the Wild can get the $ to work. I’m mostly just focusing on this year and my expectations are high. 

[Pewterschmidt]

Can we now spend assets on forwards?   It’s been 7 years of flushing picks for D-men.  How about some forwards please

[Pablo]

Players come and go but a Lord Stanley Cup win is forever. 

[Fortis]

IMHO, great deal by BG even if it seems like a gamble now. I wasn’t impressed with Buium’s overall game, so I view the trade as essentially Rossi + 1st round for one of the best players in the league. I don’t think Ohgren will ever excel at the NHL level. 

My question is how do the Wild implement Hughes into the team? In the last 25 years, the Wild have only had success with a suffocating defensive game. This isn’t Hughes’ game. Do the Wild go back to the drawing board and change their entire system mid-season? Our Power Play is atrocious right now…do we plug Hughes in and hope it changes? Do we change strategies? Or do we change coaching staff to support a more offensive system?

Adding Hughes changes the entire identity of this team (if only for 1.5 seasons)

[Pablo]

21 minutes ago, Pewterschmidt said:

All the prospects and futures Guerin has dealt away for Nyquist, Jiri project™️, brazzo, and now Hughes means the prospect pool/farm will look like the Fletcher era prospect pool for next five years.  Guerin is going all in on the current core + yurov for top 6, Hartman and Gus get dealt for a top 6 forward, and the Stramel’s and Lorenz’s fill out the bottom 6.  Is this group now one top 6 forward away from a deep Cup run?   

Yuri is that missing guy but it never hurts to have another. Trust in BG to find one more piece to the Cup winning puzzle!

 

[Pewterschmidt]

3 minutes ago, Pablo said:

Yuri is that missing guy but it never hurts to have another. Trust in BG to find one more piece to the Cup winning puzzle!

 

Who’s Yuri?  I assume you’re not saying yurov gets us over the hump