“It may not boil down to money with [Quinn]. He said before he wants to play with his brothers. That would be partly out of our control. In our control if we brought his brothers here.” Rutherford said.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old was one of very few bright spots on the Canucks last year, with the club missing out on the Stanley Cup Playoffs<\/a>, but with some new additions to their roster and players returning to full health, the Canucks are hoping for a return to the postseason in 2026, but one former NHLer doesn’t believe Quinn Hughes has what it takes to win at the most important time of the year.<\/p>\n Former NHLer doesn’t believe Vancouver Canucks can win a Stanley Cup with Quinn Hughes<\/p>\n During a recent edition of the Empty Netters podcast former National Hockey League defenseman and 2018 Olympian James Wisniewski had some bold words regarding the Vancouver Canucks and captain Quinn Hughes.<\/p>\n When discussing mobile, puck-moving defenseman currently in the NHL, including guys like Lane Hutson<\/a>, Adam Fox<\/a> and Cale Makar<\/a>, Wisniewski not only doesn’t believe he should be mentioned in that same group, he doesn’t think the Vancouver Canucks can win a Stanley Cup “with a guy like him”.<\/p>\n Hughes, who has appeared in six more Stanley Cup Playoff games than Wisniewski already in his career, doesn’t have to be a Zdeno Chara-type to win a Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n From a leadership standpoint, sure, Hughes might not be the most vocal guy on the ice, but he leads by example, recording 75+ points in each of the last three seasons and quite frankly, is someone like Adam Fox more of a Zdeno Chara-type than the Canucks captain, if that’s what Wisniewski is trying to imply, no disrespect to the former NHLer, but it’s very hard to believe that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It may not boil down to money with [Quinn]. He said before he wants to play with his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,37071,448,12430,37069,37070,82,452,4669],"class_list":["post-55671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-james-wisniewski","tag-nhl","tag-quinn-hughes","tag-quinn-hughes-canucks","tag-quinn-hughes-playoffs","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouver-canucks-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55671","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=55671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}