Article: The Wild Are Assembling the NHL's Ghostbusters After Trading For Quinn Hughes

[Mikki Tuohy]

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[MNCountryLife]

Ek and his punchable face.  Funny!!!  His play flat out pisses off the best players in the league. Which is really fun to watch.   Ek is a big boy now and appears to be very strong.   Opposing teams be wary.  Hitting Ek just seems to rev him up even more. And he hits back. The guy is a beast.... in every sense of the word.  

[mnfaninnc]

Smiles from Hughes. That would be a good omen towards a resigning, I would think. 

We need to truly sell the large market fanbase in a mid market city. It seems like the Hughes brothers could spend summers here in MN. It's not so different than Michigan. Having all 3 in Da Beauty League might be quite a draw.

[Imyourhuckleberry]

Alright, Vancouver at New Jersey at 11:30 am today for those who have NHL network. And Wild should get Hughes on the ice at 5:00 pm today, hosting the Boston Bruins and Khusnutdinov. Boston has won 4 in a row and are the only team in the league without an OT loss(6-0 in OT games).

Time to see what this Wild team could look like with Quinn Hughes on it, after the team picked him up using the owner's private jet. The Wild have zero guarantees of an extension with Hughes(that's direct from his agent, per the Athletic), but made the trade anyway.

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And as a long-time NoJo naysayer, I have to say that he delivered 2 of the best passes he has made in a Wild jersey Saturday against Ottawa. At age 35, on the $800k contract, he's on pace for the best season of his career. I certainly did not see that coming!

[bisopher]

Need to remember that the Canuck dressing room has had issues for a year, at least. They had to trade JT Miller last year because he and Pettersson couldn't get along, and their play this year has been lacking across the board.

I'm hopeful the Wild's room will be a much more positive, supportive environment for QH, and his play will improve as a result. 

[Pablo]

Tonight is gonna be incredible! and to get a matinee viewing of our old friends to boot. I wish them well!! Anyone have access to this mornings skate at the arena formerly known as the X? Post some vids on the tweet machine please & thank you. 

[Pewterschmidt]

23 minutes ago, Imyourhuckleberry said:

At age 35, on the $800k contract, he's on pace for the best season of his career.

On brand for NoJo.  Keeping everyone guessing

[MNCountryLife]

Looks like Rossi is off IR.  All 3 new Vancouver boys will be playing today. Rossi is listed as #1C.

[Imyourhuckleberry]

6 minutes ago, MNCountryLife said:

Looks like Rossi is off IR.  All 3 new Vancouver boys will be playing today. Rossi is listed as #1C.

Buium is 2nd pairing, but playing on PP1, per an interview I saw on the Athletic.

Ohgren was practicing with their 4th line so far, but he's young and could really develop. Those guys are going to put up some points for Vancouver.

 

For the Wild, Jonas Brodin (upper-body injury) didn’t play Saturday and will be out Sunday, Hynes said. Hynes indicated Brodin will be out a few days, but it’s not a week-to-week scenario.

I imagine Hunt will play 2nd pair for this one with Brodin and Middleton out. We'll see if they sit Jiricek or Kierstad now, as opposed to the Saturday game. Not sure what the PK units will look like. Boston has been pretty solid this year(7th in goals for per game), so this could be a higher scoring game, particularly if there are a lot of penalties.

 

[Imyourhuckleberry]

1 period in and Buium already has a PP goal and PP assist for the Canucks.

He could make a strong push for the Calder given the role he'll have for them.

[Imyourhuckleberry]

17 minutes ago, Imyourhuckleberry said:

1 period in and Buium already has a PP goal and PP assist for the Canucks.

He could make a strong push for the Calder given the role he'll have for them.

To be fair, neither was a great play by Buium, just getting more opportunity, but he's done well in scoring with significant opportunity for his prior teams.

[Willy the poor boy]

55 minutes ago, Imyourhuckleberry said:

1 period in and Buium already has a PP goal and PP assist for the Canucks.

He could make a strong push for the Calder given the role he'll have for them.

The Mighty Quinn has his work cut out for him already...

[FredJohnson]

On the other hand, he’s coming from a highly public leadership role in the Canadian market. 

 

Perty sure most of the national media thinks Minnesota is in Canada. 😬

[Sam]

1 hour ago, Willy the poor boy said:

The Mighty Quinn has his work cut out for him already...

Buium was gifted those two points. The assist, he didn’t play much of a role. And the goal was a lucky deflection.

Edited yesterday at 08:14 PM by Sam

[Quebec1648]

3 hours ago, FredJohnson said:

On the other hand, he’s coming from a highly public leadership role in the Canadian market. 

 

Perty sure most of the national media thinks Minnesota is in Canada. 😬

Many of the early settlers in Minnesota were French Canadian, so the media is not entirely wrong on Minnesota having ties to Canada. We even have a city named Little Canada...... 

I suppose the Minnesota accent was also heavily influenced by those same Canadian settlers. 

Alberta is often called the Texas of Canada and the most American friendly or American like province. Minnesota is the most Canadian friendly state aside from northern Maine.

[FredJohnson]

8 minutes ago, Quebec1648 said:

Many of the early settlers in Minnesota were French Canadian, so the media is not entirely wrong on Minnesota having ties to Canada. We even have a city named Little Canada...... 

I suppose the Minnesota accent was also heavily influenced by those same Canadian settlers. 

Alberta is often called the Texas of Canada and the most American friendly or American like province. Minnesota is the most Canadian friendly state aside from northern Maine.

German is the dominant genetic marker of Minnesota residents. All the Norwegian - Swedish - Whatever ethnicity marketing for Minnesota is bupkis! 

Edited 23 hours ago by FredJohnson

[TCMooch]

I want Keifer Sherwood now in our bottom 6 and I want to make opposing players cry when they play is we hit them so much

[Oliver It]

5 hours ago, FredJohnson said:

German is the dominant genetic marker of Minnesota residents. All the Norwegian - Swedish - Whatever ethnicity marketing for Minnesota is bupkis! 

You betcha!

 

[Up North Guy]

20 hours ago, FredJohnson said:

German is the dominant genetic marker of Minnesota residents. All the Norwegian - Swedish - Whatever ethnicity marketing for Minnesota is bupkis! 

You are correct but regionality counts also. For example NE Minnesota has a large Finnish population. NW Minnesota has a large Norwegian and Swede population. Central and Southern Minnesota has a large German population. All of that is in flux as people from other areas move into Minnesota.