Star defenceman knows that such prominent names in the game can help achieve his goal of becoming a complete player in a demanding position.
Hughes has become more assertive in the offensive zone. Since scoring his fourth goal of the season on Jan. 18 with a zig-zag dash from the point and a deft deke against the Tampa Bay Lightning, his forays have been elevated by finding those seams.
“It’s the way you can defend with quickness and that’s where he’s really going to benefit from Sergei and Adam.”“I wish these guys were 15 years younger and they’d be in the lineup,” he joked Tuesday. “They’d be going against Kane and Toews. They played a game a certain way and they bring up stuff.”
“I worked on backward skating and practising against Jack, Kyle Connor, Copp and Zegras and a bunch of really good players.When we would do three-on-threes and guys would worry about playing offence, I would defend for the whole 20 minutes and not doing anything offensively. I tried to focus on that to get better at poke-checking and pick-pocketing sticks.”Article contentIn his 1998-99 season with the Washington Capitals, Gonchar became the first Russian defenceman to score 20 goals.
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