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We’re going over New Jersey Devils d-man Luke Hughes, and whether or not the Vancouver Canucks would, could, or should make a huge trade offer for him.
This video is taking place after the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2025 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) New York Islanders, Matthew Schaefer
2nd) San Jose Sharks, Michael Misa
3rd) Chicago Blackhawks, Anton Frondell
4th) Utah Mammoth, Caleb Desnoyers
5th) Nashville Predators, Brady Martin
6th) Philadelphia Flyers, Porter Martone
7th) Boston Bruins, James Hagens
8th) Seattle Kraken, Jake O’Brien
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Radim Mrtka
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Roger McQueen
11th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Benjamin Kindel
12th) Philadelphia Flyers (from New York Rangers via Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins), Jack Nesbitt
13th) Detroit Red Wings, Carter Bear
14th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Jackson Smith
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Braeden Cootes
16th) New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames via Montreal Canadiens), Victor Eklund
17th) New York Islanders (from Montreal Canadiens), Kashawn Aitcheson
18th) Calgary Flames (from New Jersey Devils), Cole Reschny
19th) St. Louis Blues, Justin Carbonneau
20th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Minnesota Wild), Pyotr Andreyanov
21st) Nashville Predators (from Ottawa Senators), Cameron Reid
22nd) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Colorado Avalanche via Philadelphia Flyers), Bill Zonnon
23rd) Ottawa Senators (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Nashville Predators), Logan Hensler
24th) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Los Angeles Kings), Will Horcoff
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Vaclav Nestrasil
26th) Nashville Predators (from Vegas Golden Knights via San Jose Sharks), Ryker Lee
27th) Washington Capitals, Lynden Lakovic
28th) Winnipeg Jets, Sascha Boumedienne
29th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Mason West
30th) San Jose Sharks (from Dallas Stars), Joshua Ravensbergen
31st) Los Angeles Kings (from Edmonton Oilers via Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins), Henry Brzustewicz
32nd) Calgary Flames (from Florida Panthers), Cullen Potter
This video is also taking place after 2025 NHL Season, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.
Luke Hughes was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.
The 2021 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:
1st) Buffalo Sabres, Owen Power
2nd) Seattle Kraken, Matty Beniers
3rd) Anaheim Ducks, Mason McTavish
4th) New Jersey Devils, Luke Hughes
5th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Kent Johnson
6th) Detroit Red Wings, Simon Edvinsson
7th) San Jose Sharks, William Eklund
8th) Los Angeles Kings, Brandt Clarke
9th) Arizona Coyotes (from Vancouver Canucks), Dylan Guenther
10th) Ottawa Senators, Tyler Boucher
11th) Arizona Coyotes, FORFEITED
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), Cole Sillinger
13th) Calgary Flames, Matthew Coronato
14th) Buffalo Sabres (from Philadelphia Flyers), Isak Rosén
15th) Detroit Red Wings (from Dallas Stars), Sebastian Cossa
16th) New York Rangers, Brennan Othmann
17th) St. Louis Blues, Zachary Bolduc
18th) Winnipeg Jets, Chaz Lucius
19th) Nashville Predators, Fedor Svechkov
20th) Minnesota Wild (from Edmonton Oilers), Jesper Wallstedt
21st) Boston Bruins, Fabian Lysell
22nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Minnesota Wild), Xavier Bourgault
23rd) Dallas Stars (from Washington Capitals via Detroit Red Wings), Wyatt Johnston
24th) Florida Panthers, Mackie Samoskevich
25th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Corson Ceulemans
26th) Minnesota Wild (from Pittsburgh Penguins), Carson Lambos
27th) Nashville Predators (from Carolina Hurricanes), Zachary L’Heureux
28th) Colorado Avalanche, Oskar Olausson
29th) New Jersey Devils (from Islanders), Chase Stillman
30th) Vegas Golden Knights, Zach Dean
31st) Montreal Canadiens, Logan Mailloux
32nd) Chicago Blackhawks (from Lightning via Blue Jackets), Nolan Allan
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15 Comments
Thanks for the morning laugh
Lol fat chance
He's not coming here !!! We have enough left handed D !!!
Vancouver gave up all their bargaining leverage when they said Quinn wants to play with his brothers. It makes way more sense that one brother would join the 2 rather than the other way around. Not to mention Vancouver has historically been a poorly run organization. Quinn would have more chances to win in NJ than Vancouver. Especially if NJ is smart and just waits till Quinn is a free agent. The Devils wouldn't have to give up any premium assets
By making this trade, NJ not only loses Luke Hughes, but they lose the leverage that might have brought them Quinn AND now gives Vancouver the leverage to eventually lure Jack away from them as well. I’m sure they’ll be quite tempted to make this deal. 😂
Guessing its the fake trade proposal??
why not. we trade a defenseman then to get assets or centers
The argument that Jack will be upset somehow that Luke will be paid more than he is, is compounded with the Canucks because Quinn is paid less than Jack and is the best of the Hughes bros at the moment.
The Devils trade Luke Hughes and Ondre Palat
Canucks trade Elias Petterson with 50% retention.
Finally, Luke's agents is the same scumbag that Dawson Mercer uses. During Mercer's last contract, the agents held out until the night before training camp to apply the most pressure. Everyone in NJ expects that this is just a bad agent's tactic.
The Canucks totally need to trade a centre away to get another defenceman…
Can we all just be honest with ourselves for a minute?.. No one is coming to Van. Let's face it lol this is going to be a very rough, depressing year, and it's probably not getting better any time soon…
From what my dad had heard from a rumer was Hronek, Myers, a first round and a prospect for Luke, one way to dump cap space, but I had to laugh as well if NJ wants Quinn why give up 1 of the bothers, with that it makes sence for jack to leave to join van in 2 or 3 years
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Ha outside of Quinn there isn't enough value in the Vancouver franchise to trade for Luke.
Probably a hot take but I’d look at trading Quinn + away to Sharks for Celebrini. Mack could make a long term difference in Van being a fan.
I don't care which team gets them, but it sure would be nice to see them on the same team. I would wager, given that they are american, that they would prefer to play in NJ. Especially if you consider the political and economic climate in Canada currently (*cough* commy country *cough*).
Now that I got that out of the way… I will definitely say that both teams should be in endless conversations to work this out so that at least one of them gets both brothers on the same team, and the other gets a good deal in return.
… because if they don't work this out, there is a good chance neither team will end up with them in the near future.