How the Quinn Hughes Trade Could Reshape the NHL Power Landscape Forever
The jury is still out on exactly how good those players will become, but their appeal to the Canucks as blue-chip assets is all that matters for the Wild. The Devils, in comparison, drafted Alex Holtz two picks ahead of Rossi in 2020 and Anton Silayev two picks ahead of Buium. Silayev could still turn out to be a good selection, but there’s an alternate universe where New Jersey could have had the exact assets Vancouver coveted in a Hughes deal had it made different picks.
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Winner: Brock Faber
Brock Faber is a bona fide top-pair talent, but at times, he’s been asked to do too much as the team’s No. 1 defender. When the Wild ran into top-four blue line injuries in past years, Faber would routinely be pushing 26-30 minutes per night. That excessive workload would eventually catch up to him and cause a dip in his play and two-way metrics.
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