Just as we discussed yesterday, another former Vancouver Canuck is advancing to the second round while eliminating another.

On Wednesday night, we saw Rick Tocchet and the Philadelphia Flyers eliminate Arturs Silovs and the Pittsburgh Penguins. And on Thursday night, Tyler Myers, who was a healthy scratch for this game, and the Dallas Stars were eliminated by the Minnesota Wild, with a big night from Quinn Hughes.

Following a massive 4-2 victory on the road, the Wild head home with a chance to advance to the second round for the first time since the 2014-15 season, when they were swept by the eventual Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks.

In what was an uneventful first six minutes of the game, Hughes opened the scoring. After firing a stretch pass to enter the zone, Hughes receives the pass back and immediately sets up in a shooting position. This drops the Stars forward, allowing Hughes to drag the puck into a better shooting position and fire the puck past Jake Oettinger.

Then it got ugly for Minnesota over the following 30 minutes of game action. Wyatt Johnston capitalized on a Yakov Trenin interference penalty, and Maverick Bourque gave the Stars the lead with just under four minutes remaining.

But not even a minute later, the Wild get one back. Matt Duchene’s poor backhand clearing attempt goes straight to Hughes at the point. He sends the puck toward the net front traffic, where good things happen. Before the puck could get to Oettinger, it deflected off a few sticks and almost out of the reach of Vladimir Tarasenko, who drops to his knees, extends his arms to shovel the puck across the goal line and tie the game. Hughes is credited with the only assist on the play.

Both teams would head into the second intermission tied at two, and it would stay that way for over half of the third period. But Hughes wasn’t done there.

With the Wild putting the pressure on in the offensive zone, Brock Faber fires a D-to-D pass to Hughes at the top of the left circle. Hughes has a ton of room to skate to the faceoff dot and has a wide-open look on net. Instead of testing Oettinger, Hughes fires a slap-pass to the front of the net. And sometimes, you have to be lucky to be good.

Hughes’ slap-pass attempt ricochets off a Stars defender and behind Oettinger to re-give the Wild the lead.

After the goal, the Stars struggled to mount the comeback. They did not register a shot on goal until 2:20 left in the third, and Matt Boldy solidified that the Wild could be moving on by burying an empty-net breakaway as the Grand Casino Arena erupted.

Boldy would add another empty-netter, to bring the final score to 5-2. Hughes finished the game as the first star with his pair of goals and an assist in 28:55 minutes of ice time. The Wild will now take on the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Colorado Avalanche in round two.