{"id":336142,"date":"2025-12-10T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/336142\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:29:07","slug":"vancouver-canucks-asking-price-for-quinn-hughes-has-been-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/336142\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks&#8217; asking price for Quinn Hughes has been revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trade winds are blowing in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>With the Vancouver Canucks near the bottom of the NHL standings, trade chatter began after the team sent out a memo stating that they were willing to listen to offers on veteran players.<\/p>\n<p>Those blustering trade winds picked up a notch on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/devils-called-canucks-asking-about-quinn-hughes-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported over the weekend<\/a> that the New Jersey Devils called on Quinn Hughes. Other teams such as the Detroit Red Wings, Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/new-york-rangers-making-trade-interest-canucks-quinn-hughes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">have also been linked<\/a> to the star defenceman.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes himself commented on the rumours after a victory on Saturday night against the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like me, [Jim Rutherford] and [Tom Fitzgerald] hopped on a call, I wasn\u2019t a part of that,\u201d Hughes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut obviously, I\u2019m aware that things like that could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest trades in recent NHL history seems like an inevitability, but what could the Canucks actually get in return?<\/p>\n<p>Sportsnet\u2019s Nick Kypreos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/real-kypers-nhl-buzz-hughes-trade-market-tanevs-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported on what he\u2019s hearing<\/a> as the Hughes trade chatter picks up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, it seems the going rate for a team wishing to acquire Hughes is a combination of four or five pieces, including roster players, prospects, and first-rounders,\u201d Kypreos wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Canucks are seeking those first-rounders to be unprotected so that if they end up in the lottery, Vancouver wouldn\u2019t have to worry about waiting another year to receive the return and would maximize the potential package.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kypreos goes on to mention the Devils and the fact that Simon Nemec, Dawson Mercer, and \u201cany of New Jersey\u2019s first-round picks in the next three years\u201d are in play.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, based on his report about what the Canucks are seeking, a minimum four-asset return would equate to Nemec, Mercer, and at least two first-round picks going back to Vancouver in a Hughes trade.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a Canucks fan, is that a return you\u2019re happy with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trade winds are blowing in Vancouver. With the Vancouver Canucks near the bottom of the NHL standings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-336142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}