News per Dhaliwal is that Canucks may trade him this year if he wants out which makes sense:
"I do believe that they internally do think that it’s better to move him this year if – capital letters – if he doesn’t want to commit to the franchise long-term," Dhaliwal said. "Maybe you get more from this year than next year."
My take:
These guys had a clear timeline to make the right calls to help Quinn see a future here. They did not just fumble the ball. They handed it to the opposition and decided to run in the other direction. Convincing Quinn is not signing Kane or taking a flyer on Reichel.
There is no haul that is worth Quinn Hughes. We need a new front office.
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Yes, Reichel was reason….
They were tasked with a near impossible project.
Build a contender out of the mess left by Benning without taking the time to stockpile the necessary assets to do so.
“Glueing macaroni pieces to construction paper.”
I legit can’t even enjoy my team without the talking heads causing nothing but doom and gloom because it generates attention. It’s no better this year than last year. Getting pretty sick of our fanbase tbh, too many fairweather fans in here.
Eternal mediocrity until they get a new owner. I think this team is just screwed until Aqua is gone. Get new gm’s, coaches, players or whatever. They’ll just never be allowed to fully build the team properly with that bozo running it from the top.
It makes no sense for Quinn to commit long term. Vancouver is cursed by having a meddlesome owner, arguably the worst owner in the entire league.
There’s no playoff success happening here in Quinn’s career so why should he commit? Makes all the sense in the world to go play with his brothers AND have a better shot at the Cup.
Sucks for Vancouver but Quinn’s decision isn’t going to change anything. Vancouver will continue to be a middling franchise until Aquilini is no longer the owner. Then there’s a chance.
The OEL trade killed this core. It’s just an unfortunate reality in the cap era.
I wish everyone would stop being doomers. Quinn hasn’t said anything either way. He could be wanting to stay here but with everyone and their mom assuming he’s gonna walk you’re putting bad energy out there
Am I one of the few optimistic fan where if we get a top three draft pick in the upcoming draft, demko cam play 50-60 games, and petey shows that he is back to his 100 point season that hughes will stay?
*My take:*
*These guys had a clear timeline to make the right calls to help Quinn see a future here. They did not just fumble the ball. They handed it to the opposition and decided to run in the other direction. Convincing Quinn is not signing Kane or taking a flyer on Reichel.*
*There is no haul that is worth Quinn Hughes. We need a new front office.*
Eh, the original sin was trading for JT Miller in the first place. Great player for the Canucks, Benning’s best trade despite the initial risk but it completely wrecked the timeline of this team. We then doubled and tripled down on the botched timeline by doing the OEL trade, which also impacted the Quinn Hughes deal we signed (6 years and walking him to free agency at 27), and then picking JT over Bo. Current management has been left trying to do a nearly impossible task, and as a result, even minor mistakes they’ve made become big problems (for example: something as minor as the botched re-signing of Kuzmenko ended up all but forcing a buy-out of OEL, and then we dumped Kuzmenko only months later)
current management has made mistakes, but the biggest mistake they made was to try to do the impossible and build a contender out of the mess Benning left them.
Why does everyone just instantly assume that devils are our only potential trade partner in a Quinn deal.. ridiculous.
been watching this team since 94. i will quit this stupid fucking franchise aqualini fuckface if quinn leaves. haven’t watched a full game on tv all season. when i went years watching everything including pre season. already stopped giving them my $. made multiple cali playoff road trips during the sedin era.
linden wanted a slow build. goddamn so angry just thinking about the loser owners and their yes men. bandwagoning the blue jays was a great time this year.
He is not staying. Better get something for him
The tone in these articles and posts on here are like fans have packed his bags for him already.
I don’t blame Rutherford and crew. Legitimately everything that could have gone wrong went wrong and the some. No one could have foreseen the JTPetey fiasco, Demko being made of glass, Peteys mega regression, constant injuries plaguing this team in general spanning multiple years. We were 1 game away from the WCF 2 years ago and possibly could have made the finals had Demko not been injured.
They don’t have a perfect track record like with letting Suter walk but at the same time they inherited Bennings catastrophe. I’ve said it in other posts, but this core is not the one that will lead us to the cup. Letting go of Hughes at least settles us on the path of a proper fresh start for the first time since the organization began.
The stupidest move was Benning not structuring Quinn’s deal to end while he was still a restricted free agent. The moment I heard about that I realized how stupid a deal that was.
Reichel and Kane are not the problems with this team. They are simply buy low trades to plug in to a depleted lineup.
Truth is their options were to trade a ton of futures to try and salvage the season (only this season mind you) or focus on the future and accept what happens with Hughes.
Whether Hughes leaves or not, we will be in a better position having kept all our premium assets and letting them develop. Trading em for fucking Zacha ain’t the play.
The chances of Quinn Hugh’s sticking around is slim to none in my opinion. Imagine the tampering going on at the table this Christmas with his brothers, parents, aunts and uncles. If they don’t start offering his services to anyone who will listen now, with no NTC, they are going to lose him for nothing or pennies on the dollar at the deadline next year.
Make New Jersey overpay to stop anyone else from acquiring him. Trade him to California, Florida, someplace hot where he might sign an extension. NYC would be a fun place to live and is close to NJ. 🤷♂️
Might be an unpopular opinion but what difference does it make, the team sucks. They are a bad to mediocre hockey team with a bad owner.
Just rip the bandaid and move on. Moving hughes now this season not only gets a haul, it helps ensure a higher pick. Just kick off a real rebuild already.
The other Hughes brothers aren’t here and who can blame him for wanting to play there? You can blame Alvin, but that part isn’t his fault.
I mean, you’re right, we should sell the farm trying to keep Hughes. But if that wouldn’t even keep him here, he’s got to go. He’d be a 1.5-2 year rental player that a team trading for him would expect to give up to Jersey at the end of it. In that sense, his trade value is very good, but not close to being what he’s actually worth as a player. Hopefully, for his sake, Jersey can at least outmatch the offers from other teams.
The only thing I’d be happy about is if it finally helps Aqua commit to a proper rebuild. If they trade him away for anything but picks and prospects, yup, that would be a disaster.
What OP doesn’t understand is that our team sucks with Hughes on it. Hughes is amazing, no doubt. But it’s time to tear it all down and start from scratch. Build through the draft like many of these other now successful teams. Moving Hughes this year should yield one of the best returns in terms of picks/prospects, ever. As long as they don’t trade him for win now players.
The only reason QH would stay is if we offer him way more money than NJ could possibly fit in their cap. This may be the only way. That doesn’t make us a good team long term tho…
He’ll do the McDavid deal for 2 more years and then he’s out.
Not defending the front office very often, but it’s not their fault he has two brothers playing for the devils. We knew this was coming. I agree, better trade him this year rather than a panic trade next season.
Ultimately it’s up to Quinn. Let’s hope he’s honest enough to tell everyone what he wants
If we lose Hughes this organization burns to the ground. It’ll certainly be the end of Allvin and Rutherford, and possibly even Aquilini gets out at that point.
They replaced Reichel with Kampf as our new and improved 2C. Surely that would convince Hughes to resign here?
Sell the team. You can’t convince me Alvin and Rutherford are this inept. They clearly have a mandate from management that hamstrings them.
But what if Hughes turns into Nemic and Bratt?
Jim Benning and Jim Rutherford have done a number on this franchise.
What Rutherford has done to the Canucks is not quite as bad as what Eby has done to this province
we don’t need a new front office, we need new ownership fr
A new ownership group is needed, ones who actually care about the sport and team instead of just making profit in a single playoff round. The team isn’t playing well and yet ticket prices are still expensive as if they are a playoff/cup contender team
I think this would be the straw that breaks my back with this team. It almost sounds stupid considering everything else I have seen with this team since I was a kid but man I just don’t think I could stand behind this anymore if we did.
Rick is a fine example of why players hate the media in this city. He has no insight into the inner workings of hockey operations. This is not stuff talked about in the locker room so any ‘contants’ he has in there arent legit sources.
Fun fact, I downvote every story I see on Canucks reddit about Quinn leaving!
What do you mean “if”? He is rich. Set for life. He’s going to play with his brothers. Would you not want to?
I love our captain but if he does not want to stay, there’s no point in keeping him.
Let logic prevail here. No emotions.