{"id":450650,"date":"2026-02-03T06:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/450650\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:45:08","slug":"quinn-hughes-extends-assist-streak-to-tie-wild-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/450650\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn Hughes extends assist streak to tie Wild record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his 25th game with the Wild, Hughes tied teammate <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"561ebae2-f93e-414e-a269-94b712ce63f8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/kirill-kaprizov\/561ebae2-f93e-414e-a269-94b712ce63f8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> for the longest assist streak in franchise history. Hughes extend his streak to nine with an assist on a Kaprizov goal in the first period against the Montreal Canadiens on Monday, then added two more later as the Wild won 4-3 in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>He now has 14 assists over the streak and 400 for his career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mnwildPR\/status\/2018502714045383113?s=20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mnwildPR\/status\/2018502714045383113?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">According to the NHL<\/a>, Hughes also tied the record for longest assist streak by a defenceman in their first season with a team, with Tom Kurvers of the 1991-92 Islanders and Tom Edur of the 1977-78 Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>The Wild acquired Hughes in a blockbuster trade with the Vancouver Canucks in mid-December. He has 30 assists and 33 points since joining the Wild, and his 55 points on the season are fifth-most league-wide for defencemen.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes will get a chance to extend his assist streak to 10 games Wednesday against the Nashville Predators before travelling to Italy to represented the United States at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Kaprizov had his nine-game assist streak in the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his 25th game with the Wild, Hughes tied teammate Kirill Kaprizov for the longest assist streak in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-450650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450650","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=450650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}