ST. PAUL — Before Quinn Hughes had even played a game in a Wild uniform, the team’s general manager was already promoting Minnesota as a place the star defenseman might want to stay long-term.

“I think Quinn will really like it here. He’s a hockey nut. He watches every game. He knows what’s going on in the league. … He just loves hockey,” Bill Guerin said. “And I think there’s obviously no better market than Minnesota to be a hockey player.”

Originally from Florida, Hughes, who will make his debut Sunday evening versus Boston, arrived in his new hockey home on a prototypical deep winter Minnesota day, with the sun shining and a minus symbol in front of the day’s high temperature. Asked about the first impression the bone-chilling weather would offer, Guerin said perhaps their first s

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