The Vancouver Canucks announced Friday that they have traded captain Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild.

In exchange for the star defenceman, the Canucks will receive forwards Marco Rossi and Liam Ohgren, defenceman Zeev Buium and a first-round pick in the 2026 NHL entry draft.

When asked at a Friday night news conference about the leadup to the trade, Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin said "you probably go back even a year ago when this started to come to our attention that this might be the path that Quinn wants to go."

"We were trying to do everything to convince him to stay and work through it."

"When we were not able to do it, that's where we started the process of looking to see what potential destination that would be out there and what potential teams that can come up wit

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