Insider Reveals MASSIVE Quinn Hughes Update...

NHL insider Elliot Freeman gives a massive update on Quinn Hughes, which will have Canucks fans fired up and Team USA fans heading into the Four Nations Finals. We're going to break all this down and more later on this episode, but before we get into that, if you're part of the 72.3% that's not subscribed yet and you're enjoying this daily Canucks content, make sure to go down below, hit that subscribe button, we'll keep you up to date on everything to do around the team. For that we got up straight into the script and where we did get an update from Elliot Freeman saying Mike Sullivan said Quinn Hughes is coming to join Team USA. Now listen we're going to dive into Quinn Hughes in a second but looking at this from the standpoint of Team USA this is a huge step for him and this is a huge step for Canucks fans as we finally see that Quinn Hughes is healthy. I mean, looking at this in the last five games, Quinn Hughes has not played since January 31st against Dallas. We've seen them go in, lose this game, but seeing Quinn Hughes fully healthy Grimpin, looking at this, are you excited as a Canucks fan where it does seem like Quinn is going to come back and join this team the second the Four Nations tournament is over? As a Canucks fan, I'm super fired up. It goes to show, yes, he's healthy. He's going to be ready to go. We were hoping that was going to be the case and that seems like it would be the case and that's what we're that's what we're reporting on now and then we have Thatcher Demko as well with all that concern so this is just one less injury to have to worry about coming back from the Four Nations tournament now the flip side of that coin is I'm very happy for Quinn Hughes I'm happy he's healthy I'm happy the Canucks are going to get him back don't play on Thursday please please don't play because we were I was saying to one of my family members the other day saying we have Team USA in the final because we didn't have Cale Makar last game and now we got him and then the USA team they didn't they don't have Quinn Hughes for this tournament so I thought okay we're fine we got the second best defenseman on our side for Team Canada the best defenseman in the game is not going to be playing for Team USA now it seems like that might not be the case now and Quinn Hughes being able to join Team USA again it's amazing for his health and it's great that he has this opportunity now to play with his countryman and to play with his brother as well as a preview before the Olympics however because they're playing against Canada in the final I am very conflicted about and i'm sure you have many thoughts on it as well and i mean the biggest thing is looking at this we did get more updates Elliott Freeman was told unless there is another injury Quinn Hughes cannot play we've seen Charlie McAvoy go down with the injury we've seen reports that he had to go to the hospital on this there's not full details on this right now but looking at this from Pierre LeBrun according to NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly just like the Harley and Canada situation Quinn Hughes is not in unless someone is definitely out due to an illness or injury can't practice with the team or play until that happens so the biggest thing is and the biggest takeaway from that is Quinn Hughes seems 100% healthy we've seen his agent we've seen Quinn all speak out on how hard it was not to join this team his brother is on this team with Jack he wants to be on this team he wants to play for his country he was held out with an injury but seeing the progression where we can see that there is a fact he is joining the team there is a chance he can play this is a huge step in the recovery for Quinn Hughes and it seems like the recovery is fully done the biggest thing is yes I would love for Quinn to go out represent his country and the biggest thing is yes I'm a Team Canada fan you can see from behind me I have my Team Canada picture but the biggest thing is I want to see Quinn stay healthy if he goes into this game goes down with an injury that's the worst case but there is a chance he doesn't play but just looking at Quinn Hughes this season he has been dominant we've seen him win the Norris last year putting up 92 points in 82 games this year in 47 games 59 points 14 goals 45 assists Quinn Hughes is the best defenseman in the league we've seen it last year with the Norris he's on pace to probably win his second Norris and a back-to-back Norris I mean just looking at Quinn's last 10 games the goals the assists it seems like every game minus a few Quinn is going up and putting up multi-point performances putting up two points against top teams in the NHL he'd score two goals against the Washington Capitals Quinn Hughes has been a phenomenal player over the past few seasons looking like the franchise player and I'll say he is the franchise player for this Canucks team but Griffin looking at this how much of an impact and what kind of spin out of the whole Team USA say stuff how much of an impact does this help with the Canucks we've seen them make moves they moved on from JT Miller in after Quinn's last game with the team we've seen this team go on a bit of a run going 3-0-1 in their last four how much of a boost does this give the new Canucks team once he returns oh this is going to be massive and I'm going to do you one better not saying that he's just the best defenseman in the league right now he is a generational talent at defenseman position we caught we possibly have the next coming of Bobby Orr in the Vancouver Canucks building so that's why you have to do everything at all costs to keep him happy and keep him in the building for the future now how this affects the Canucks and how their new look is Quinn Hughes might not be asked to do as much so the point per game it's not that that's going to go anywhere necessarily but he's not going to be asked to do as much because now Filip Pironk he's back to a point per game and on his streak we've been able to beat good teams we only lost one game and it was in overtime without him and this is a team that like i said in our last video he this is a team without him we are terrible without him but we have been proven that we can win games without him we can go on little runs without him we can have other guys step up and be the difference maker be the leaders that he isn't there to beat maybe i know a lot of people say what they got about pd with him having the assistant captain and him not stepping up into that but there's other guys like i said Philip Peronik Philip Heidel Drew O'Connor who just got extended today keeper sherwood has been an absolute wrecking ball and then we have some of these new defensemen where Marcus Pettersson he's going to be paired with probably Peronik and Hughes at some point as well too so there's going to be a lot of options here that vancouver canucks can explore not only to just make sure they have the depth and also pieces to go on a run but also the pieces where you don't have to rely on one or two or three guys to be the main points of production to create opportunities now Quinn Hughes is coming back onto a roster after this four nations break where there's been a few changes not too much since he left but in the sense that jure connor he's getting into his stride right now we got him extended as well philip hedel as well Marcus Pettersson these guys are starting to get clicking where they had only just gotten there when Quinn Hughes got hurt so now they have a little bit more time to practice with the team they have a little bit more time to get assimilated with everybody and build that chemistry and then when Quinn Hughes comes back as the leader of this ship he is going to be in a much smoother situation than when he left and the biggest thing is looking at the defensive pairings this is from Puck Peter what they project the Canucks to have this looks so much better than what we had this season Hughes and Hronko we know is an elite setup we've seen them play together last season into this year this is one of the best pairings in the entire NHL Marcus Pedersen has came in and been the perfect shutdown defenseman to pair with someone like Tyler Myers on the second pairing they've looked great together then again you have Derek Forbert who missed some time this year due to injury. Carson Soucy's on the back end. This defensive core looks like a Stanley Cup winning defensive core, in my opinion. You have everything from puck movers, in Hughes, Hronko, Pedersen can do a bunch of it. You have the defensive shutdown capabilities of the entire bottom four. Yes, you might want to tweak. Yes, you might want to bring in an extra defenseman, which we will touch on now in a second. But looking at this, this looks so much better than what we've seen. The team finally looks healthy. And I mean, looking at their current win streak, They did lose back-to-back games, won in overtime to Detroit, and won full game in Dallas. But looking at the past games from the Canucks beating the Washington Capitals, the top team in the NHL, in the East, 2-1, beating St. Louis, Nashville, Colorado, San Jose, and the Toronto Maple Leafs. This team is rolling, and this was without Quinn Hughes for the Detroit, Colorado, San Jose, Toronto game. This is going to be a huge step in the right direction. but looking at this one player that's a little interesting that i would like to see back what's your thoughts on with this team fully healthy maybe bringing up DPD as that sixth defenseman to switch in with Derek Forbert i love that idea honestly because when you were saying that that is a Stanley Cup winning defensive core i i don't know if we're quite there yet especially if we're talking about still bringing in another defensive guy but we're getting there it's not as swiss cheese as it was earlier this year now we have our top four locked down those guys are going to be solid now it's just worrying to make sure those back two are barely hunkered down and Carson Soucy he's had an up and down season Derek Forbert he's had a lot of injuries this season as well but DPD I would love to see him get back in there because since Eric Branstrom left I know people will say that the advanced stats weren't so great but I really like Eric Branstrom the short tenure he had in Vancouver and I think a DPD Elias Pettersson could do this as well where he can be that puck moving and productive defenseman as well and still be able to lay hits and be one of these guys that teams don't know how to game plan for because there's not enough tape on him there's not a lot on him where he has a lot of upside potential and not a lot of evidence as to what he can do on the ice so we can really catch teams off guard with that especially with Vancouver coming out of this four nations break where I know Forbort is the set defenseman right now on that pairing but if you put DPD in there coming out of the break teams might not know how to game plan necessarily and you can kind of go and continue this little bit of a run that they're on don't look now with the Vancouver Canucks because I know as soon as we start blowing smoke up their butts as when they disappoint us and go on a losing streak however with things right now considering we're on a winning streak when we didn't have Quinn Hughes and now we can come out of the break against a team like Utah and Vegas those would be two really big wins to get coming out of this break what's your guys thoughts on this what's your thoughts on Captain Quinn joining the Canucks and USA fans if you're still here watching this or even stumbled across this video what's your thoughts on Quinn Hughes maybe joining Team USA versus Canada Thursday night in what's going to be one of the most exciting games we have witnessed in quite some time i mean three fights in the first nine seconds we know what it's going to be like but this is the gold medal game let us know down below what your thoughts on this while you're down there leave like subscribe share this with your friends we'll be back with another episode so keep your eye out for that but i've been your host Mark with my co-host Griffin and take care