00:00There was a gigantic trade that happened over the weekend that I think sends a pretty big
00:06shock throughout the league. Let's talk about Quinn Hughes on his way to Minnesota.
00:18Quinn Hughes is on his way to the Central Division, traded to the Minnesota Wild for
00:24three very good young hockey players and a first-round pick. Let's start on the Canucks
00:34side of this. Actually, no, no, because that one can get a little down. Let's go on the Minnesota
00:39side of this conversation. They are in a very unenviable spot because the Dallas Stars are a
00:46really good hockey team, and the Colorado Avalanche are playing at an elite level right now. You could,
00:52again, you could make the case those are the two best teams in the National Hockey League,
00:57and they are both in Minnesota's division. And Minnesota has a good hockey team. We had them
01:03come through Calgary here a little bit ago, and they didn't do well against the Flames,
01:07but they were playing unbelievable hockey leading up to that. And you can see where this is a dangerous
01:13group with Kirill Kaprizov, obviously, at the head of all of that, but just some solid pieces
01:20throughout the lineup. And then on that blue line, there's a lot to be excited about. With Faber,
01:25Spurgeon is just solid, and he's getting more and more recognition as the year goes on. And then both
01:30goalies are playing insane right now. So, honestly, I credit Minnesota and Bill Guerin greatly for making
01:37this move. There are so many times in sports you will hear, well, you know what? We got, like,
01:43Blue Jays for forever. We would hear, well, you got the Yankees, you got the Red Sox.
01:50What? You may as well just rebuild. And hopefully you can kind of come back at a time where they're
01:54not the juggernauts. That's such a loser mentality. There would be, I think, a lot of teams that would
01:58see those two at the top of it and be like, you know what? This ain't our time, man. Let's try to
02:04kind of regroup. Now, you can't do that with $16 million for Kaprizov coming up, or $17 million or
02:08whatever it is. So, you obviously have to make a real go of it. But I do think a lot of teams would
02:14kind of fold up shop a little bit and just, you know what? Let's see where we land and not give
02:18up a few futures to try to be competitive with them. But Minnesota recognized, hey, we're a good
02:22team too. They got to worry about us. So, can they? And go out and make this move. And now with Faber
02:29and Hughes on the blue line, that is about as good of a 1-2 as you're going to get in the National
02:34Hockey League, this makes them a real player. Does it make them better than Dallas? I don't think so.
02:39I still think that a little bit more secondary scoring is needed to have that be the case. And
02:45then Dallas is just playing at a juggernaut type of a level. But even them, they have some
02:49weaknesses as well. So, I think it is clear why Minnesota is still attached to rumors about
02:55Nazem Qadri. But I still think that this is a team that is in a very, very good spot. And I love
03:03how aggressive they are being here. For the Canucks, you don't win a lot of these trades.
03:09It is very difficult with a move like this to make four quarters equal a dollar. That being said,
03:15this is a really good return. Like, Bouyem is not going to be Quinn Hughes. But he can be a pretty good,
03:23he's the Quinn Hughes we have at home. Sort of a thing. Like, that is, that's a real strong upgrade
03:30to the youth and kind of the core of this team. Marco Rossi, I'm, I have my concerns about him
03:38turning into that, like, real number one center. But they need Elias Pettersson to turn into a
03:43number one center. If Rossi can be a number two that they haven't had in a really long time out
03:47since, like, I don't know, like the Sedin twin times. Obviously, you know, they were not in the
03:53number two line. But you know what I mean. Going back to that time, that's kind of all they need
03:59him to be right now. And there's a little bit more pressure, a little bit less pressure, sorry,
04:04on him than in Minnesota. And an opportunity, I think, for him to kind of grow into a good role
04:09there. And then the prospect they got, you hear a lot of talk about how injuries kind of hit at the
04:16exact wrong time in his development. But we'll see what would they kind of turn into. But this
04:19certainly does signal that the for sale sign is really up in Vancouver. And we can talk till we're
04:25blue in the face about how they screwed up this young core. But they have at least kind of
04:29recognized it and are at least moving now in a more youthful direction. It was nice to see the
04:33Canucks get a first round pick and not flip it for a defensive rental who is a 3-4 defenseman right
04:37away. So smart out there for Van, I suppose. Just quickly, because you can kind of see a bit of a
04:47local angle to this one. Obviously, Rasmus Anderson is now once again the prettiest girl at the bar
04:53in terms of the defensive market in the NHL, and maybe just the trade market in general,
04:57because very reasonable contract to take on this season. Rental, but very reasonable contract to
05:03take on this season. Talked about this on radio out here in Calgary. I don't think that you can
05:09just copy and paste whatever Buffalo was going to give Vancouver and just be like, well, we'll take
05:13it. Or the New Jersey offer. And yeah, we'll take that. That's not going to be the case. The one thing
05:20though, is that maybe in these discussions, teams that were going for Quinn Hughes maybe recognize
05:26that the list of untouchables wasn't as long as they thought. And so maybe that does kind of pry
05:32another person loose that the Flames didn't have at their disposal in some of these negotiations
05:36before. So I don't think that you can compare the two even a little bit. But sometimes it just,
05:43okay, well, we were going to trade that guy for Quinn Hughes. So what if we just did that and one
05:47more thing for Rasmus Anderson? And we're good. And we can kind of delete a few of the things we had
05:52in the Hughes offer. But this big one that we didn't think we'd get to, maybe we do that for
05:56Anderson. So I do think it kind of helps out the Flames here a little bit that you can kind of see
06:00where the market is at with a few of these teams. And they've had a few discussions about guys they
06:04maybe didn't think they would have discussions about before. So just a really interesting trade
06:09and a Minnesota team that I've always kind of liked. Very excited to see them now and what they can be
06:15even after just a couple of games here with Quinn Hughes. So let me know in the comments who won this
06:20trade. Feels like Minnesota, they got the best player, but the Canucks did really well for a team
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