Canucks Schedule: Why Quinn Hughes won't play it safe or slow in injury return

Canucks Schedule: Why Quinn Hughes won't play it safe or slow in injury return

“I feel healthy enough.”

We heard that refrain more than once last NHL season when Quinn Hughes returned from injury to give the Vancouver Canucks a fighting chance to beat playoff odds, especially in late March when wild-card positioning math wasn’t adding up.

Hughes is expected to find himself in a similar situation Monday in Nashville.

Yes, it’s early, but being below the .500 performance bar with a 6-7-0 record is only placing more pressure on the injury-ravaged Canucks — and their best player — to gut out victories minus eight players. And because we’ve yet to see Hughes at his best in a ridiculously condensed schedule that invites fatigue and injuries, what should we expect against the Predators?

Will he wheel and deal?

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