Quinn Hughes signs with Vancouver
Welcome to the #Canucks Quinn Hughes! Last year’s 7th overall pick signs a three-year entry-level contract with Vancouver. https://t.co/lDwkuR7EPU
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) March 10, 2019
Boy that was fast. Says something about something.
Yeah he wants to play some in the NHL before the season ends
He nearly left last season and now the season is over. How do you have any issue with this?
What the fuck is he supposed to do, just linger around campus? Normal people move on with their lives.
This happens every year with star players on most teams. The second they're done, they're signing the contract if they're going pro. They'll work out arrangements to finish their courses and go. Coaches know, players know, and it's no big deal.
In other words, it says nothing about anything.
Says nothing about nothing! Every single year, within a day or two of a players team, who is going to be going to the NHL, is eliminated from postseason play, they either sign their entry-level deal or an ATO with their AHL affiliate.
But please, continue to make dumb comments about stuff you have no idea about, it says something about something!
Actually, it says everything about everything.
It says he's done everything he committed to doing for himself, his coach, and his teammates, and that everything he's dreamed of doing his entire life is now directly in front of him---an NHL career.
Best of luck, Quinn. Now go out into the world and fulfill your dreams!
Highly rated players leaving for NHL immediately after their NCAA season completes is very common. Off the top of my head, Dan Dekeyser did this just a few years ago; played 35 games withe WMU and immediately joined the Wings after his season was over. Source
Yeah it says his team’s season is over and he’s ready to make millions of dollars now.
He can play up to 10 games this season without this year counting on his entry level contract. Basically a free "get your feet wet" test run for both Hughes and Vancouver. The Canucks only have 13 games left. It benefited everyone to get to Vancouver quickly.
It says something about the structure of NHL rookie contracts.
March 11th, 2019 at 11:13 AM ^
no, it doesn't say anything about anything, dum-dum.
Michigan hockey summer came early this year.
He couldn’t wait to get the eff out of town.
Doubt it. Season's over. Sign and get some time in the show. Not to mention the $
Canadian money, that shit is worth half of real money. . . s/
FYI - Canadian teams have to pay their players in USD.
just like Berenson
March 11th, 2019 at 10:21 AM ^
Red Berenson played three years at Michigan, and graduated by the time he left.
That's not the case with Hughes.
March 11th, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
There were also six teams in the league when Red graduated/left Michigan. He also won a Memorial Cup with Regina before he went to Michigan... to say he took an unusual path to the NHL would be an understatement
Are the chances that the Canucks expected him to sign immediately after his season ended less than 100%? He'd be considered a hold out otherwise.
Go make some loonies, young man. You've earned them.
Getting out of this years shit show as fast as possible. Good idea.
March 11th, 2019 at 11:15 AM ^
i'd call it a "this year's transitional season" rather than "shit show," but hey, that's just me.
It says literally nothing about anything. He came back this year, played his ass off for the team including playing clearly injured at the end of the year but it was also clear this was the last year he would be in college. The season ended and he took the next step.
Except for the part where Quinn cannot play another game for Michigan until next fall even if he wanted to. Season ended. This is what happens with hockey. We were lucky to get him back for this season.
Why would he not leave right away? He's already been drafted and everyone knew he was gone. Do you want him to go to class tomorrow for no reason?
A lot of butthurt fans on this board. Guy was a top 10 pick. Happy for him, they were lucky he came back
A whole lotta dumb on the blog in general today. Can't decide if the comments in this thread are worse, or the win-or-else ultimatums being issued to Beilein on the front page after a 26-5 season and finishing one game out of the B1G regular season championship.
Best of luck Q.
That withdrawl won’t look in his permanent transcript.?. Good luck at the next level Quinn except when you match up against the Wings.
I would like this news more, if he signed with the Wings. Good luck, Q.
Some people would rather that players lie and pretend that they’re just there for school and sports is a hobby.
I’m in favor of truth. Which Quinn has told basically the entirety of the past year. He openly said that he’d make his decision whether to go pro last summer based upon what the NHL franchise wanted. He spoke pretty frankly about going pro after this season while the year was in progress.
Michigan lost, he signed, he’s going to go on and keep playing. Everyone was an open book about it.
March 11th, 2019 at 10:26 AM ^
"Some people would rather that players lie and pretend that they’re just there for school and sports is a hobby."
Given that Hughes made it clear he was never going to stay more than two seasons at Michigan, why did he come here in the first place? If playing professionally has always been his #1 goal, why not go pro and bypass college?
March 11th, 2019 at 10:57 AM ^
Education and development is why he came to Michigan. He could have easily went to Sarnia, where he was drafted at 15 years old, to play in the OHL but he decided the NCAA was the best development plan for him as did the Canucks, when they'd drafted him 7th overall.
March 11th, 2019 at 11:04 AM ^
He came to Michigan last year because he was 17 and not draft eligible. Playing professionally wasn't an option.
He came back this year instead of spending this year in the AHL as rookies often do to delay the start of their rookie contract. He trained with Vancouver in the offseason after being taken #7 overall. The plan was obvious. Marinate for one more year and then go to the big club. He chose Michigan over the minor professional league.
As was the plan all along if you read any of the billion Hughes articles originating out of Vancouver all year, he is now rushing out to British Columbia to play his 10-game limit before the end of the NHL season.
(https://www.thefourthperiod.com/feb-2019/hughes-expected-to-join-canucks-in-march)
There is nothing weird or sinister about any of this.
Can’t be mad at the kid, time to make some money and hopefully get nhl experience
Best of luck to him. Hope to see him play in a game or two this season. Expect him to have a great NHL career
March 11th, 2019 at 10:24 AM ^
This is quite common
Thank you Quinn! It was a joy watching you in Ann Arbor.