{"id":335241,"date":"2025-12-08T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335241\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:20:09","slug":"canucks-red-wings-have-reportedly-spoken-about-quinn-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335241\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks, Red Wings Have Reportedly Spoken About Quinn Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on his report from Saturday Headlines<\/a>, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman has reported on another team that has spoken to the Vancouver Canucks regarding a potential trade for star defenseman Quinn Hughes<\/a>. In today\u2019s rendition of\u00a032<\/a> Thoughts<\/a>, Friedman shares that the Detroit Red Wings have inquired about Hughes\u2019 availability.<\/p>\n

Like his update linking Hughes to the New Jersey Devils, it doesn\u2019t appear anything is imminent with the Red Wings, either. About New Jersey, Friedman said, \u201cI do not believe there is anything imminent. I don\u2019t even know that they\u2019re anywhere far along. But I do believe that a conversation was had about where things stand and where they might be going.\u201d It appears similar conversations have been had with Detroit.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first report linking the Red Wings to Hughes, although it is the first confirming that the interest is legitimate. A week and a half ago, Jeff Marek of The Sheet reported<\/a> that Detroit was a team to watch if the Canucks were open to moving Hughes, citing defenseman Simon Edvinsson<\/a> as a potential headliner that could head back to Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Additionally, David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period suggested<\/a> that Lucas Raymond<\/a> would be of the most interest to the Canucks. For what it\u2019s worth, although he didn\u2019t mention a specific name, Friedman believes that if they were to move Hughes, Vancouver would only trade him unless a prominent center was coming back, which would make Edvinsson or Raymond a non-starter. There\u2019s no indication the Red Wings would have any interest in moving either, even if they were able to acquire a defenseman of Hughes\u2019 caliber.<\/p>\n

Although the Red Wings don\u2019t have the benefit of rostering Hughes\u2019 brothers, the family\u2019s connection to Detroit runs deep. Before debuting in the NHL, Hughes spent nearly four years in southeast Michigan, playing for the United States National Team Development Program before playing for the University of Michigan Wolverines.<\/p>\n

Notably, during the 2018 NHL Draft, Detroit surprisingly selected Filip Zadina<\/a>, who\u2019s now playing for the NL\u2019s HC Davos, while Hughes was still on the table. The Canucks selected Hughes one pick later with the seventh overall pick.<\/p>\n

Much like it would be for any team, acquiring a consistent Norris Trophy candidate such as Hughes would be a franchise-altering move for the Red Wings. The team already has a top-pairing defenseman in Moritz Seider<\/a>, though he doesn\u2019t offer the same offensive profile as Hughes.<\/p>\n

Regardless, whether it be with Detroit or New Jersey, it doesn\u2019t appear that the Canucks are close to trading Hughes or even firmly entertaining the idea. However, with their position in the standings and the fact that Hughes is expected to become an unrestricted free agent after next season, teams from around the league are beginning to gain confidence that the Canucks could end up moving him now rather than lose him for nothing after next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following up on his report from Saturday Headlines, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman has reported on another team that has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3064,10232,575,68762,85,2371],"class_list":["post-335241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-quinn-hughes","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}