Hughes Bowl 3: Quinn, Jack and Luke Hughes face off for the first time in Minnesota

More about the behind the scene stuff.

The Wild have tried their hardest to make Quinn feel at home. Guerin, the Wild’s president of hockey operations, and assistant GM Chris Kelleher personally flew to New Jersey, where the Canucks had landed the night of the blockbuster, to pick Quinn up in owner Craig Leipold’s private plane. They sent an Escalade to brother Jack’s house to pick him up. They had Quinn’s favorite meal waiting on the plane and a table of his favorite food at the hotel waiting for him in his room.

How did they know his favorite food? Team services manager Dominic Hennig reached out to his compatriot with the Canucks. He got word from the Canucks’ team chef that Quinn loves chickpea pasta, ground chorizo sausage and premium olive oil and will sometimes mix in grass-fed Bolognese for his pregame pasta. He’s big on grass-fed and organic meats and vegetables, and prefers food that’s gluten-free with no corn products.

So, the Wild had chickpea noodle pasta and a Bolognese waiting in his hotel room, a charcuterie platter, a fresh fruit bowl and the scrumptious hummus appetizer from Mara, renowned chef Gavin Kaysen’s restaurant.

On his bed were both types of Wild No. 43 HUGHES home sweaters for him to gift his parents. The Wild made sure to rent him a brand new BMW SUV that was delivered to the hotel the next morning after arriving.

“Amazing,” Quinn said when asked about the way he has been treated. “I mean, starts with Billy, everything he did, and coming up, picking me up, obviously. And then just the trainers and my teammates, Dom here, and just all the guys have been amazing.”

Brisson, who lives in southern California, met up with Hughes in Newport Beach last week and says he’s loving his time with the Wild. “He’s very happy. Very happy with the team and excited about the opportunity to hopefully make a difference,” Brisson said.

“The entire family is happy,” Brisson said. “The brothers are happy for Quinn that he’s happy, that he’s in a good spot. Minnesota’s got a good team going in the right direction. It’s an exciting platform right now, but again, we’ll see how it goes. It’s been a good experience so far because no matter what, when you get traded, you see the difference from the old to the new. You adjust, you adapt, you learn. You grow. I know he loves how he’s been treated by the organization and his teammates. Like, he went on and on about Kaprizov and Boldy and Faber and all these guys. He really thinks they can do damage.”