Joni Mitchell was mostly right when she sang, “You don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” But in the case of the Vancouver Canucks, everyone knows what they’ve got in Quinn Hughes — and he’s still here.

No matter how this season unfurls for the Canucks, there will be angst on the West Coast about the future of Hughes, who will make a decision next summer whether to negotiate a long-term extension in Vancouver or seek to join his brothers in the National Hockey League in New Jersey.

This uncertainty only heightens the appreciation for what Hughes does on nights like Wednesday (and most nights), when the Canucks’ all-world defenceman beautifully set up the first two goals for his team and then later deftly scored one himself as Vancouver dismantled the Calgary Flames 8-1 in their penulti

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