{"id":356125,"date":"2025-12-18T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356125\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:34:16","slug":"ranking-every-team-in-the-nhl-central-division-after-quinn-hughes-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356125\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking Every Team in the NHL Central Division After Quinn Hughes Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Through Quinn Hughes&#8217; first two games with the Wild, they&#8217;ve dominated the Bruins 6-2 and the Capitals 5-0. I&#8217;m tempted to put a disclaimer here that I don&#8217;t expect them to keep doing\u00a0that, but sheesh, anyone watching these games has been treated to some of the most fun, fast-paced, skilled, and motivated hockey we&#8217;ve seen this season from anyone other than the Avalanche. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Even if we can&#8217;t expect the Wild to keep crushing every opponent by a five-goal margin, we can expect the puck-moving jolt that Hughes brought to the team to persist. Hughes&#8217; transition game and ability to see the ice bring exactly what the Wild were missing to enter that upper echelon as they played catch-up after a rough start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Minnesota had been heating up for a month and a half before the deal, and now the team&#8217;s efforts have been rewarded with a top-two NHL defenseman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Don&#8217;t get me wrong: The Stars have been resilient, even dealing with a slew of injuries, but the combination of the Wild&#8217;s momentum and the Hughes factor has me thinking the Wild will soon pass Dallas in the standings and end the season No. 2 in the division. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through Quinn Hughes&#8217; first two games with the Wild, they&#8217;ve dominated the Bruins 6-2 and the Capitals 5-0.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-356125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356125","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=356125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}