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Defence · #43

Quinn Hughes

Vancouver Canucks Minnesota Wild(traded during the season)
Age
26
Shoots
Left
Height
178 cm
Weight
82 kg
Born
Orlando, USA
Draft
2018, round 1, #7 (VAN)

Career · 2018–19 to 2026–27

Games
52
Goals
7
Points
59
TOI per game
27:55
xGF% (5v5)
54.7%
Goals above expected
−2.6

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2018–19VAN5033018:0560.0%20.347.5%
2019–20VAN6884553−1021:531266.3%236.751.3%
2020–21VAN5633841−2422:48983.1%195.245.9%
2021–22VAN7686068+1025:151505.3%317.049.9%
2022–23VAN7876976+1525:401544.5%347.949.4%
2023–24VAN82177592+3824:411998.5%3812.156.2%
2024–25VAN68166076+225:441928.3%2913.055.1%
2025–26VAN2622123−1027:26742.7%125.150.5%
2025–26MIN4854853+627:541134.4%228.654.9%
2025–26All teams7476976−427:441873.7%3413.753.3%
2026–27MIN4246+228:001414.3%21.052.2%
Total2 teams51168423491+2924:531,1266.0%21266.851.9%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.511.52101520253035404550
27m28m28m29m29m30m101520253035404550Game

Player card

How 2018–19 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

96th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

1st pair
  • Goals /600.3287th pct
  • Assists /602.00100th pct
  • ixG /600.3292nd pct
  • Shots /605.3186th pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)51.9%81st pct
  • CF% (5v5)53.6%94th pct
  • Relative xGF%+4.898th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.4858th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game24:5399th pct
  • PP time share74.6%100th pct
  • PK time share11.0%23rd pct
  • Quality of competition24.8%87th pct

Percentiles among defencemen with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Finishing

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−2.6 goals above expected

02468101020304050Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−20−100+10+20+30+40

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed34.5 km/h87th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph796th pct
  • Hardest shot134.5 km/h59th pct
  • Distance skated20 km92nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time49.4%97th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian defencemanMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

36.2 km/h78th pct

▼ −3.3 km/h since 2024–25

32343638404221–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.4 km/h, 85th percentile (76 games)2022–23: 36.1 km/h, 76th percentile (78 games)2023–24: 36.3 km/h, 77th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 39.5 km/h, 100th percentile (68 games)2025–26: 36.2 km/h, 78th percentile (74 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

5.198th pct

▲ +1.4 since 2024–25

024621–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 3.0, 85th percentile (76 games)2022–23: 2.5, 81st percentile (78 games)2023–24: 3.6, 92nd percentile (82 games)2024–25: 3.7, 92nd percentile (68 games)2025–26: 5.1, 98th percentile (74 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.5 km95th pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.51521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 14.4 km, 94th percentile (76 games)2022–23: 14.0 km, 76th percentile (78 games)2023–24: 13.8 km, 63rd percentile (82 games)2024–25: 14.2 km, 82nd percentile (68 games)2025–26: 14.5 km, 95th percentile (74 games)

Hardest shot

153.0 km/h71st pct

▼ −0.9 km/h since 2024–25

14014515015516021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 152.8 km/h, 58th percentile (76 games)2022–23: 150.7 km/h, 47th percentile (78 games)2023–24: 153.3 km/h, 67th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 153.9 km/h, 78th percentile (68 games)2025–26: 153.0 km/h, 71st percentile (74 games)

Offensive-zone time

46.7%96th pct

▼ −0.5 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%48%50%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 45.5%, 95th percentile (76 games)2022–23: 46.7%, 95th percentile (78 games)2023–24: 48.5%, 99th percentile (82 games)2024–25: 47.2%, 99th percentile (68 games)2025–26: 46.7%, 96th percentile (74 games)