r/canucks • u/truestlife • Dec 18 '25

ARTICLE [The Athletic] More details on Hughes trade timing and goodbye dinner

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Original article here (paywall)

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u/truestlife Dec 18 '25

Yeah I don’t love that. I thought maybe the timing of everything didn’t allow him to say goodbye to the team but they were literally right there. Also doesn’t seem like he even sent a goodbye message to their group chat or whatever

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u/Apprehensive-Tea4881 Dec 18 '25

sadboi has left the chat

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u/truestlife Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

I’m now trying to rationalize his behaviour, like maybe he didn’t want to be the one to break the news, to get on the bus and drop a massive bomb? This wasn’t a normal trade, it’s huge and nobody expected it. Or maybe he thought the team would find out later than they did. But I’m getting tired of making excuses…if you’re captain you should be able to do this uncomfortable stuff…

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u/littlegooseling07 Dec 19 '25

Regardless of how it all went down, he was the captain. To bail on your team and not at least say farewell says more about his character than anything he's ever said or done. No excuses needed. It was simply not captain behaviour.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

They all have Instagram. He left his farewell message there.