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The Hockey PDOcast

Breaking Down the Quinn Hughes Trade to Minnesota

The Hockey PDOcast

Sportsnet

Nhl, Sports, Hockey, Sportsnet

4.8920 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Dimitri Filipovic is joined by Thomas Drance to get into as many layers of this weekend's Quinn Hughes trade as they can over the course of an hour, ranging from how the Canucks got here as an organization, the acquisition cost and timing of the deal, to why the Wild were the ones to go for it and how he'll fit in Minnesota.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey PEDEOCast with your host, Dmitri

0:16.3

Filipovich.

0:19.0

Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast.

0:20.8

My name is Dmitra Filipovich and joining me as always on a Sunday.

0:24.0

My good buddy Thomas Trans, Tom, what's going on, man?

0:26.9

Dmitri, what a weekend?

0:28.8

I mean, what a weekend?

0:30.1

What else can we say?

0:32.7

It was a tectonic weekend.

0:34.2

We saw Stan Bowman.

0:40.9

How did the Oilers, first of all, I know everyone wants to talk Quinn Hughes. How did the oilers find a way to lose a trade in which they

0:47.3

upgraded a net? Honestly, it's stunning. I mean, how is that possible? I even liked the Spencer Stasney part of it. But,

0:57.4

I mean, Pittsburgh's going to end up netting what? Multiple seconds for Tristan Jari by the time this is all

1:04.3

said and done. And given the term on that contract, given his performance, given the fact that he

1:09.9

was clearly their third

1:12.0

best goaltender. I mean, it's shocking. And if Pittsburgh rehabilitates Skinner and finds a way

1:19.4

out of that deal before the deadline, we won't be shocked, you know they're getting a second at least for

1:24.0

Kulak. And honestly, I just have no idea what the Oilers are doing.

1:29.3

And honestly, there's no amount that they can pay for a marginal upgrade in net that I should

1:34.0

hate, that I should even think twice about or anyone else.

1:37.5

And yet they found a way to lose a trade to upgrade a net.

1:42.1

I never would have believed it.

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