{"id":402935,"date":"2026-01-12T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402935\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:39:09","slug":"quinn-hughes-offered-glimpse-into-matthew-schaefers-islanders-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402935\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn Hughes offered glimpse into Matthew Schaefer&#8217;s Islanders future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG, Manitoba \u2014 I saw Matthew Schaefer\u2019s future Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The future wore No. 43 for the Wild, skated 30:37, had three assists, eight shots on goal and is one of two players who can lay claim to the title of best defenseman in the world right now.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer\u2019s own brilliance for the Islanders at age 18 has raised questions about how he can top this amazing rookie season, where he can be better, what he will look like in his prime if he can do this already. Well, Quinn Hughes turned 26 in October and Schaefer, whose skating, edgework and offensive ability provide a natural comparable, might just look a whole lot like he does once he hits that age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuinn\u2019s obviously such a skilled player,\u201d Schaefer told The Post. \u201c\u2026 He\u2019s very skilled, very fun to watch. They got a great team over there as well. It\u2019s fun to play against them because you\u2019re always challenging yourself at all lines of the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG, Manitoba \u2014 I saw Matthew Schaefer\u2019s future Saturday night. The future wore No. 43 for the Wild,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[38006,4828,394,385,99,362,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-402935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-matthew-schaefer","9":"tag-minnesota-wild","10":"tag-new-york-islanders","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}