Quinn Hughes

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Quinn Hughes
Date of birth October 14, 1999
place of birth Orlando , Florida , USA
size 178 cm
Weight 79 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2018 , 1st round, 7th position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
2015-2017 USA Hockey National Team Development Program
2017-2019 University of Michigan
since 2019 Vancouver Canucks

Quinton "Quinn" Hughes (born October 14, 1999 in Orlando , Florida ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League since March 2019 . In the 2018 NHL Entry Draft , the seventh-position defender was selected by the Canucks. He took part in the 2018 World Cup with the USA national team.

Career

Quinn Hughes was born in Orlando when his father, Jim Hughes, was an assistant coach with the Orlando Solar Bears . Then the family moved to Toronto , where Jim was employed in the organization of the Toronto Maple Leafs , so that Quinn Hughes ran up in the junior division for the Toronto Marlboros, among others . At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, the defender switched to the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP), the central talent factory of the USA Hockey Association . With the team he took part in the game operations of the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the country, and was appointed to the Second All-Star Team in his second season . At the same time, the NTDP selections function as junior national teams, so that Hughes took part in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2015 before winning the gold medal with the U18 at the 2017 U18 World Championship .

After two years, Hughes retired due to old age from the NTDP and moved to the University of Michigan , for whose Wolverines he has since participated in the game operations of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As a freshman , he scored 29 points in 37 games and was consequently elected to the Second All-Star Team and the All-Rookie Team of the Big Ten Conference . He also took the U20 national team at the U20 World Cup in 2018 and won the bronze medal there before leaving for the senior national team during the 2018 World Cup debut. He was the youngest player of the entire tournament and won the bronze medal with the team.

Hughes was considered one of the most promising talents in the upcoming NHL Entry Draft 2018 , so he was seen by all relevant rankings among the top ten selected players. Due to his physique (178 cm; 79 kg), which is clearly below average for a defensive player, he is primarily considered a talented offensive defender, so he is certified as having outstanding technical skills and an above-average game overview. In the actual draft, the Vancouver Canucks selected him in seventh position. For now, however, he returned to Michigan and took part in the U20 World Cup again at the turn of the year , where he won the silver medal with Team USA . He ended the 2018/19 season with a points average of over 1.0 per game (33 in 32 games) and as the top scorer for the Wolverines, before signing an entry-level contract with the Canucks in March 2019 and his debut in the National Hockey League a little later (NHL) gave.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2017 USHL Second All-Star Team
  • 2018 Big Ten Conference Second All-Star Team
  • 2018 Big Ten Conference All-Rookie Team
  • 2019 Big Ten Conference First All-Star Team

International

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2015/16 USA Hockey NTDP USHL 34 4th 7th 11 -12 10 - - - - - -
2016/17 USA Hockey NTDP USHL 26th 4th 22nd 26th -1 10 - - - - - -
2017/18 University of Michigan NCAA 37 5 24 29 +14 26th
2018/19 University of Michigan NCAA 32 5 28 33 −2 16
2018/19 Vancouver Canucks NHL 5 0 3 3 ± 0 2 - - - - - -
USHL total 60 8th 29 37 -13 20th - - - - - -
NCAA overall 69 10 52 62 +12 42

International

Represented the USA at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012 United States WHC 6th place 5 1 5 6th 6th
2017 United States U18 World Cup gold medal 7th 1 4th 5 +6 4th
2018 United States U20 World Cup Bronze medal 7th 0 3 3 +1 6th
2018 United States WM Bronze medal 10 0 2 2 +4 2
2019 United States U20 World Cup Silver medal 7th 0 2 2 +3 2
2019 United States WM 7th place 8th 0 3 3 +7 0
Juniors overall 26th 2 14th 16 18th
Men overall 18th 0 5 5 +11 2

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

family

Quinn Hughes comes from a hockey family. His father Jim Hughes played briefly in the professional field and then worked as a coach, including as an assistant to the Boston Bruins and as head coach of HK Dinamo Minsk . His mother, Ellen Hughes, née Ellen Weinberg , represented the USA at the 1992 World Cup , where she won the silver medal with the team and was elected to the tournament's All-Star Team. In addition, his brothers Jack (* 2001) and Luke (* 2003) also play ice hockey.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Scheig: Quinn Hughes - 2018 NHL Draft Prospect Profile. thehockeywriters.com, April 7, 2018, accessed May 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Canucks sign defender Quinn Hughes. nhl.com, March 10, 2019, accessed on March 11, 2019 .
Squad of the Vancouver Canucks in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Quinn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hughes, Quinton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Orlando , Florida , United States