{"id":944512,"date":"2026-10-28T23:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944512\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T23:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:42:12","slug":"wild-gm-bill-guerin-talks-hughes-negotiations-i-havent-really-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944512\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild GM Bill Guerin talks Hughes negotiations: ‘I haven’t really decided’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that Bill Guerin’s optimism regarding a new contract for Quinn Hughes<\/a> is waning. <\/p>\n

“To be quite honest, I had not talked to them about this in a long time,” Guerin said of contract talks with Hughes and his agent, Pat Brisson. “There\u2019s nothing to talk about right now. What am I going to do (say) ‘Please, please, please’?”<\/p>\n

It seemed to be a departure from Guerin’s previous tone on the matter when he said that there was “no tension” and “communication is good.”<\/p>\n

Hughes is in the final year of his current deal with a $7.85 million salary cap hit. The 27-year-old blue-liner became eligible to sign a new contract with the Wild on July 1, but negotiations seem to have stalled since.<\/p>\n

The Wild have started the season red-hot with a 9-3-2 record. Still, the prospect of letting a player of Hughes’ calibre walk for nothing at the end of the season is difficult to grapple with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven’t really decided, at some point in time I’ll have to try to figure things out and see what\u2019s best for the team,” Guerin said. “I know one thing\u2019s for sure: having Quinn on our team is what\u2019s best for the team.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ll be completely honest with you, I don\u2019t know. I don’t know what\u2019s going to happen. I don’t know what I\u2019m going to do. There\u2019s no date. What we’re doing right now is focusing on our team and trying to win hockey games. That\u2019s really it. I think some people want to make this more complicated than it really is \u2014 being the media. And it\u2019s not that complicated.”<\/p>\n

The former Norris Trophy winner has 18 points (three goals, 15 assists) in 14 games this season and has scored over 70 points for four straight seasons. <\/p>\n

He also appears amenable to signing in Minnesota. <\/p>\n

“I’m excited right now. My two feet are planted in Minnesota and, you know, something could happen soon. I’m not really too sure,” Hughes told reporters Saturday<\/a>, regarding contract talks. “I’m really enjoying playing here.”<\/p>\n

However, the possibility of joining his younger brothers, Jack and Luke, with the New Jersey Devils could also potentially factor into Hughes’ decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears that Bill Guerin’s optimism regarding a new contract for Quinn Hughes is waning. “To be quite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-944512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944512","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=944512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}