from Ben Kuzma of the Vancouver Province,

For most NHL rookies, one game doesn’t make a season and five aren’t a gauge of future potential.

However, Quinn Hughes is not an ordinary rookie.

Even before the seventh selection in the 2018 draft dazzled in a memorable first outing with the Vancouver Canucks in a 3-2 shootout victory over the Los Angeles Kings on March 28, the diminutive defenceman was being compared to Brian Leetch, Phil Housley, Kris Letang and even the legendary Bobby Orr.

Part of it had to do with how the 5-10, 175-pound Hughes manipulates the opposition with quickness and thinking two plays ahead. Part of it is a rich family hockey lineage that includes his father, Jim, and brothers Jack and Luke.

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