The biggest challenge for Hughes will be figuring out what he can’t get away with in the NHL that he could nightly in the NCAA, while still being fearless with his natural abilities. (RoryBoylen)
The 19-year-old is coming off a monster of a season, his second with the Wolverines, in which he recorded 33 points in 30 regular season games. That 1.10 points per game average was the second-highest mark of any under-20 NCAA defenceman in the 21st century, trailing only Adam Fox’s 1.14 in 2016-17. Fox was a freshman for a loaded Harvard Crimson that made it to the Frozen Four that season, while Hughes led the 13-14-7 Wolverines who were swept in the first round of the Big 10 playoffs.
“Like Dylan Larkin in Detroit, another Michigan player. Dylan’s a hell of a player, but he’s not going to get them to the playoffs this year. Somewhere down the line they’ll get there and he’ll be a big part of that and the same will be true about Quinn.”Your browser does not support theThe area of his game that will need the most tightening is on defence, which isn’t uncommon for a teenaged blueliner stepping into the NHL.
"He stood up and apologized and said 'hey guys I was the other team's best player tonight,'" Pearson said."It takes a lot of guts to stand up and do that. The beauty is he's humble. He's not saying 'hey I'm outta here after this and going to the NHL...there's none of that." Pearson noted that, generally, when he talks to NHL teams about various defencemen, the kind of answers they seek aren’t the same that were being sought out years ago.
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