NHL Rumors: The Quinn Hughes Situation Could get Interesting Around the Olympics

The Quinn Hughes situation could get interesting around the Olympics

Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman, on the Quinn Hughes situation with the Vancouver Canucks. Things could get interesting around the Olympics.

** NHLRumors.com transcription

Friedman: “And I’ll tell you someone else too, I mean, I think now Vancouver, 30th in the NHL, with the Quinn Hughes situation hanging over them, I think that’s a team they’re going to start hearing a lot more about too.”

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Justin Bourne: “Adding?”

Nick Kypreos: “What about the actual noise around Quinn Hughes and what 30th place does to that, Elliotte? Because we’re all under the impression that he wants to win now, and he doesn’t see a window of it, we all believe that he’s going to walk. Is it not where it’s leading us to?”

Friedman: “Well, look Nick, like it doesn’t look pretty right now. There’s no question about that. You know, one of the things I’ve noticed is, I don’t know if they spoke to him or what they did, but, you know, last (week) was post-game. It doesn’t bother me so much.

But he, if you noticed him a couple weeks ago, like he just, he looked really miserable, and he kind of changed that. So I think when, when you’re the captain, you kind of have to not, he tried to try to hide that from time to time. And I think he’s done a better job of it.

Like, to me Nick, it comes down to it comes down to me, I’m curious, to me I’m curious to see where everybody is at the Olympic deadline, because at the Olympic, at the Olympics. Because the Olympics is starts a month before the trade deadline, and, but it also gives everybody time to breathe and figure out what they’re looking at.

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That for me is the big time this year. Like, where’s everybody at the deadline, at the Olympic tournament? Hughes is going to be there. Maybe these conversations happen while he’s playing there.”

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