Quinn Hughes signs in Minnesota and plays with Dylan Larkin?
If you have been reading my content and watching my You Tube videos you will know that when Dylan Larkin asked for a trade, I predicted he would pick three teams to go to and two of them would be extremely unlikely destination and the other one would be Minnesota. You can see my previous content for all the reasons I thought this, but one big reason was his relationship with Quinn Hughes and Bill Guerin. Quinn and Dylan have known each other for quite a while and of course had the opportunity to play with each other in this past winter Olympics winning a gold medal as a result. I suggested that this deepened the relationship between Quinn and Dylan even more and gave an opportunity for even more discussion between them about their situations on the teams that they now play for. That being of course Detroit in the case of Larkin and Minnesota or Quinn where he was recently traded to from the Vancouver Canucks. The interesting thing for me was that Quinn himself had asked for a trade while in Vancouver after what appeared to be a very tumultuous previous two years with player conflict and unsuccessful team results to go with it.
After making the trade request three teams were reported to become leading candidates to acquire Hughes. New Jersey, where two of his brothers play, Minnesota, where he eventually ended up and Detroit of course where Dylan Larkin plays. The trade speculation of Quinn going to Detroit seemed to carry on for some team and I believe it quite likely resulted in many conversations between Dylan and Quinn about the possibility of them playing together which very well could have fueled the desire in their minds for it to eventually happen. As we know it did not for whatever reason to, I imagine, the disappointment of both of them. Quinn would finally end up in Minnesota before the Olympics and. as mentioned both he and Dylan would play on the Olympic team.
In my mind these series of events had quite an impact on the relationship between Quinn and Dylan. The parallel of both of them being dissatisfied with teams they were on and the conversations they probably had as Quinn Hughes talked about how he made up his mind to leave Vancouver and how much better of a time he was having in Minnesota. Dylan would seem to have been in a similar situation in Detroit and I can comfortably assume Quinn's story helped give him the courage to also change his situation. Combine this with the G.M of the Minnesota Wild who acquired Quinn from Vancouver also being the G.M. of the Olympic team . The G.M. that showed much confidence in Dylan Larkin be selecting him for the Olympic team and I felt and still feel it created a perfect cocktail for Larkin to take the big risk he did in asking for a trade with 5 years left on his deal, which is not something that would be recommended that one do by an agent I imagine due to the poor leverage a player would have, but they did it anyway. To me this is almost like a pact between the two. An I have your back brotherhood move that gets carried out until the end, For these reasons I still do think Dylan Larkin ends up in Minnesota eventually even though Detroit will make their attempt towards reconciliation. I think Quinn signs a contract lower than people are predicting to make it happen and Guerin gives up a healthy package to Detroit in order to facilitate the deal. There is too much investment to go back now.
