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‘Zeev already had Hughes upside’: Wild fans react to Quinn Hughes trade with the Canucks
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Lachlan Irvine
Dec 13, 2025, 16:00 ESTUpdated: Dec 13, 2025, 15:36 EST
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Much like Vancouver Canucks fans have been coming to grips with the club trading away Quinn Hughes, Minnesota Wild fans have been trying to process the trade package GM Bill Guerin sent to acquire him. The Canucks’ additions of centre Marco Rossi, winger Liam Ohgren and perhaps most notably, defender Zeev Buium, give the franchise the first key players in a rebuild that’s begun with a bang. But those pieces that Minnesota gave up have a number of Wild fans questioning if the return was worth it.
Much of the Wild fans’ dissatisfaction with the trade stems from the subtraction of Zeev Buium in the deal. At 20 years old, Buium was starting to round into his own at the NHL level fairly quickly this season. But every fanbase tends to overrate their own prospects, and Buium’s ceiling in Wild fans’ eyes was Quinn Hughes. And a lot of the immediate reactions don’t seem to like the idea of getting the real thing instead. We scoured the
trillwhitepeople: I hate this. Zeev already had Hughes upside. He’s not signing here either. He will be in a NJ sweater first chance. This is so short sighted.
Painwracker_Oni: I was jumping for joy when this first got reported then the next tweet that included Buium killed the joy a bit for me personally. Literally any of our D core besides Buium and Faber I could handle trading away without being sad but [expletive] man this honestly kinda sucks. Hughes is amazing he’s going to be insanely good for us, he’s what you hope Buium turns into but he lacks size.
This is almost a dream trade, losing Buium sucks though.
swallowrazors: I’m legit bummed about Zeev. He’s been looking solid.
Wild fans are also worried about the likelihood of Hughes resigning. The same problem exists for the Wild as it did for the Canucks, albeit with a different flavour. Minnesota is firmly trenched in the playoff race, but their history as a middling team might sway Hughes’ opinion on resigning.
drtrobridge: Better re-sign his ass at that price
PayneTrain181999: If we do, this is probably worth it. If we don’t? Worst trade in league history.
RedEyeBadGuy: See this is stupid.. why would we trade away a haul for him only to have to trade him away in another year for a lot less of a haul (he will be a one year rental next season). It just makes no sense unless there’s some agreement that he will re-sign here which was reported that there wasn’t. I definitely love this if Hughes is here long term but I don’t think he is so I’m left scratching my head.
atom-wan: It’s mortgaging our future on a guy that may or may not re-sign with us in a couple years and will be expensive. At least 2 of the 3 guys we traded were starting to hit their stride
gregthestrange: I fully understand how good quinn is but what they gave up just doesn’t make sense. if he signs an extension sure, but he’s stated so many times he wants to play with his brothers
But for all the comments upset with the trade, there’s plenty that love and understand the move as well. The Wild are trying to win now, and Hughes makes that dream a much closer reality for the Twin Cities, especially part of a roster that already boasts Kirill Kaprizov, Brock Faber and Matt Boldy.
dafreak999: Hughes with Boldy will be magic
EducationGold: Are people in this thread [expletive] stupid? We just got the 2nd best D-man in the NHL, a team’s franchise player. Imagine the Avs giving us Cale Makar for this. Zeev is good but he’s not even sniffing close to this.
Ok_Nature645: Billy G over here thinking “let’s put Faber and Hughes on the same D-pair to get them used to each other for team USA”
There were plenty of upset Wild fans who also joined last night’s emergency edition of Canucks Conversation, which you can watch the replay of below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in-qnhxFezI

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