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Minnesota Can't Trade Its Way Out of the Hughes Deal

The Wild gave up four pieces for a season and a half of Quinn Hughes. The extension everybody is treating as a separate decision is actually the second half of that trade's price, and it is the only thing that can still make the December deal look sane.

Wild by the numbers

Final 2025-26 regular season · source NHL, data as of 2026-09-28. Goals per game exclude shootout deciders. Standings · All 32 teams

46-24-12Record
104Points
7thNHL rank
3.27GF / GP
2.87GA / GP
25.2PP%
79.8PK%
46.6FO%

Possession · 5-on-5

Computed by Play-Pause Hockey from the league play-by-play, 2025-26, 1312 regular-season games. Where a rank is shown it is among the 32 clubs, 1st = best. PDO and zone starts carry none: a high PDO means hot rather than good, and zone starts are how a club is deployed rather than how well it plays. All 32 teams

48.2CF%24th of 32 · Share of shot attempts
49.0FF%20th of 32 · Unblocked attempts
100.8PDOShooting % + save %, 100 is neutral
47.5OZS%Share of zone faceoffs in the attacking end

Skaters

Wild skaters, 2025-26 · by points
Player	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PPP	S	TOI/GP
Kirill Kaprizov	L	78	45	44	89	+10	32	269	22:09
Matt Boldy	L	76	42	43	85	+18	30	254	20:34
Quinn Hughes	D	74	7	69	76	-4	34	187	27:44
Mats Zuccarello	R	59	15	39	54	-5	21	122	18:39
Brock Faber	D	80	15	36	51	+18	11	173	24:41
Joel Eriksson Ek	C	70	19	32	51	+16	16	194	19:05
Marcus Johansson	L	75	15	34	49	+18	9	106	15:25
Vladimir Tarasenko	R	75	23	24	47	-11	13	148	14:56
Ryan Hartman	R	76	23	20	43	-1	7	167	16:45
Bobby Brink	R	68	15	15	30	-7	7	104	15:10
Danila Yurov	R	73	12	15	27	-7	3	80	13:18
Yakov Trenin	C	82	6	17	23	+13	0	98	13:17
Jared Spurgeon	D	79	6	16	22	+2	6	90	19:36
Jonas Brodin	D	62	4	14	18	+19	1	76	20:17
Michael McCarron	C	79	8	9	17	-16	0	109	14:02
Jacob Middleton	D	75	2	14	16	+2	0	62	17:30
Nick Foligno	L	54	4	11	15	+2	2	49	12:39
Marcus Foligno	L	56	8	5	13	-12	2	65	12:51
Nico Sturm	C	49	5	6	11	0	0	37	10:57
Jeff Petry	D	67	0	9	9	-15	2	54	14:46
Daemon Hunt	D	32	0	6	6	-3	0	19	12:26
Zach Bogosian	D	41	2	4	6	+8	0	30	14:33
Robby Fabbri	C	21	2	3	5	-4	0	30	11:48
Ben Jones	C	28	1	2	3	-10	0	26	8:50
Hunter Haight	C	9	1	1	2	-5	0	13	10:50
Nicolas Aube-Kubel	R	6	0	2	2	+1	0	5	11:37
Tyler Pitlick	C	32	2	0	2	-4	0	26	7:46
Matt Kiersted	D	6	0	1	1	0	0	4	15:44
Carson Lambos	D	1	0	0	0	+1	0	1	10:16
David Spacek	D	2	0	0	0	-1	0	0	10:45
Viking Gustafsson Nyberg	D	2	0	0	0	+1	0	0	21:18

Goalies

Wild goalies, 2025-26
Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SV%	GAA	SO
Filip Gustavsson	50	49	28	15	6	.904	2.69	4
Jesper Wallstedt	35	33	18	9	6	.916	2.61	4

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Wild on NHL EDGE

Puck and player tracking, 2025-26 regular season · source NHL EDGE. Ranks are among the 32 clubs, 1st = best; defensive-zone time ranks the least time first. All 32 teams

23.6mphTop skating speed20th of 32league avg 23.8
18Shots over 90 mph31st of 32league avg not published
1663Bursts over 20 mph18th of 32league avg 1762
3720.7miDistance skated19th of 32league avg 3727.0
95.5mphTop shot speed32nd of 32league avg 99.7
2393Shots on goal7th of 32league avg 2282
11.2%Shooting %15th of 32league avg 11.1
41.3%Offensive-zone time12th of 32league avg 41.1
41.2%Defensive-zone time15th of 32league avg 41.1

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The Real Quinn Hughes Fight Isn't the $17M. It's the Term.

The $17M is basically settled. The term is the whole negotiation, and Minnesota is on the wrong side of it.

Jul 17, 2026