{"id":455344,"date":"2026-02-05T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455344\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:24:07","slug":"quinn-hughes-sets-wild-record-with-assist-in-10-straight-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/455344\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn Hughes sets Wild record with assist in 10 straight games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although he&#8217;s only been in Minnesota for nearly two months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/quinn-hughes\/bbc4fe2b-f685-47e8-ae58-8ca29ff706e6\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"bbc4fe2b-f685-47e8-ae58-8ca29ff706e6\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Quinn Hughes<\/a> is already in the Wild&#8217;s record books.<\/p>\n<p>With a helper on Matt Boldy&#8217;s second of three first-period goals on Wednesday, Hughes set a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mnwildPR\/status\/2019220826348810302?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">franchise record<\/a> for the longest assist streak at 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was previously tied with teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/kirill-kaprizov\/561ebae2-f93e-414e-a269-94b712ce63f8\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"561ebae2-f93e-414e-a269-94b712ce63f8\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> for the Wild record at nine games.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old also registered an apple on Boldy&#8217;s third of the night, putting him at 16 assists over the streak and 34 points (three goals, 31 assists in just 26 games with the Wild.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Hughes set a Wild record, but he also set the NHL record for the longest assist streak by a defenceman in their first season with a team, passing Tom Kurvers of the 1991-92 Islanders and Tom Edur of the 1977-78 Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes will suit up for Team USA at the Winter Olympics in Milan before given a chance to extend his streak on Feb. 26 when the Wild take on the Avalanche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although he&#8217;s only been in Minnesota for nearly two months, Quinn Hughes is already in the Wild&#8217;s record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-455344","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\/455344","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=455344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}