Quinn Hughes ’ mind is racing quicker than one of his trademark defensive zone exits.

You see it in his body language and those long stares into oblivion. And you hear it in his voice during short and stark media scrums.

The Vancouver Canucks captain was raised to be respectful and grateful. He has always placed the team ahead of personal goals and ambitions and the will to win — including Tuesday against the league-leading Colorado Avalanche in Denver — is what separates him from the pack.

Dominant Nathan MacKinnon and defensive dynamo Cale Makar? Bring it on. It’s why Hughes has played through pain and why another season of struggles for his NHL club, especially amid a plethora of injuries, hurts the most.

And when you do everything possible as a record-setting generational tal

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