{"id":130037,"date":"2022-06-24T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=130037"},"modified":"2022-06-23T19:40:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T23:40:33","slug":"quinn-hughes-is-the-vancouver-canucks-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/06\/24\/quinn-hughes-is-the-vancouver-canucks-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn Hughes is the Vancouver Canucks MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Vancouver Canucks’ “untouchable trio” is going to come up a LOT in the next few weeks leading to the draft. They are, in various order, Thatcher Demko<\/a>, Elias Pettersson<\/a>, and Quinn Hughes<\/a>. In our opinion, Hughes is the lynchpin of the team.<\/p>\n

Quinn Hughes First Among Equals<\/h2>\n

It is difficult to talk about the impact Quinn Hughes has had on the Vancouver Canucks without using historical terms. After playing with the team for three seasons – two shortened – he sits 12th in career points for the team. Vancouver has been in the league for 52 seasons. They’ve had some good defencemen in that history, of course. The silky-smooth Jyrki Lumme<\/a>, the stalwart Matthias Ohlund, and career leading-goal scorer Alexander Edler<\/a> all wait for Hughes to join them atop the scoring list. And he will – almost certainly before the end of his current five-year contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m playing tonight. I\u2019m pretty excited.\u201d – Hughes pic.twitter.com\/PioX3obMf0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) March 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n