{"id":345902,"date":"2025-12-15T02:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345902\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T02:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:51:09","slug":"hughes-gets-eccentric-welcome-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345902\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes gets eccentric welcome in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hughes was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/quinn-hughes-traded-to-minnesota-wild-by-vancouver-canucks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traded to Minnesota<\/a> from the Vancouver Canucks on Friday, in a blockbuster deal, for forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/marco-rossi-8482079\" title=\"Marco Rossi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Rossi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/liam-ohgren-8483499\" title=\"Liam Ohgren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Ohgren<\/a>, defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/zeev-buium-8484798\" title=\"Zeev Buium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zeev Buium<\/a> and a first-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing a player like Quinn Hughes here, you just don\u2019t get these opportunities all that often,\u201d said Wild general manager Bill Guerin of the 2024 Norris Trophy winner. \u201cWhen a player of Quinn\u2019s caliber comes available, and you have an opportunity to get him, there\u2019s a cost to it and we were willing to do what it takes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hughes is one of six players that have been named to the United States roster for the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hughes was traded to Minnesota from the Vancouver Canucks on Friday, in a blockbuster deal, for forwards Marco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-345902","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\/345902","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=345902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}