Each set of NHL brothers has dreamed about having a possibility to play with each other.
The three Hughes brothers — Norris-winning Vancouver Canucks defender Quinn Hughes, hotshot ahead Jack Hughes and 2021 No. 4 decide Luke Hughes — aren’t any completely different. The Hughes household is exceptionally shut. The three brothers skate collectively and dwell collectively throughout the summer season months in Michigan. They’re continuously engaged within the highest attainable degree of hockey expertise work and hockey dialog. In fact, they’ve thought of the likelihood at size and mentioned it. Particularly provided that Jack and Luke are already New Jersey Devils teammates.
At a gathering with numerous print media, together with each The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun and Michael Russo on the NHL Media Tour in Las Vegas, Jack Hughes opened up about his want to ultimately play along with his brother.
I requested Jack Hughes about whether or not he talks to his brother Quinn about his future and presumably enjoying collectively.
“That is the headline query, you understand?,’’ Jack smiled again.
“Actually, I am not afraid to say it. Yeah, I’d love for Quinn to — ultimately I might like to play…— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) September 9, 2025
“Actually, I’m not afraid to say it. Yeah, I’d love for Quinn to — ultimately I’d like to play with him. And whether or not that’s in New Jersey or at what time that takes, sooner or later, I need to play with Quinn. However yeah, that’s the query going round. They discuss all day about it up in Vancouver, you understand?” he mentioned.
Quinn, who presently serves as Vancouver’s captain, has two years remaining on his second contract and will probably be eligible to signal a contract extension on July 1, 2026. Although Hughes is 2 years out from hitting unrestricted free company, as we’ve seen on many events within the NHL, extension eligibility can function a pivot level at which gamers are in a position to start to dictate phrases and name their shot about their enjoying future.
All of this has develop into, as Jack famous on Monday, one thing of an obsession in an already-obsessive Vancouver market. None of it ought to be stunning or stunning, nonetheless. At his end-of-season media availability again in April, even Canucks group president Jim Rutherford famous prominently, and with a good bit of tongue in cheek, that “(Quinn has) mentioned earlier than he needs to play along with his brothers, and that might be partly out of our management — in our management if we introduced his brothers right here. So, there’s many shifting elements.”
On the finish of the day, all three Hughes brothers need to win above all else. And that’s the place you may anticipate Quinn’s focus to be, no matter how a lot the sideshow dialog that can encompass his enjoying future over the course of the subsequent 10 months dominates the eye of Vancouver hockey followers.
Quinn is in Las Vegas and attending the media tour himself. So it’s possible that we’ll hear extra from the Canucks captain, reacting to his brother’s utterly comprehensible want to get an opportunity to play collectively ultimately, on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning.
In different phrases, keep tuned. We’ll be doing this all season.
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