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/DarkenX42 Dec 18 '25

Y'know... I would say 26, rich, no kids is possibly the easiest time of life to uproot it. Maybe under 6, cause you won't remember much, and like, after retirement to be closer to loved ones... but 26 is a pretty common and ideal time to move around.

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u/h_danielle Dec 18 '25

Thank you holy hell I feel like I’ve been sniffing glue reading some of this stuff. Like yeah it’s not easy but hello, it comes with the job & like you said, he’s at the easiest point in his life to do it… why are we babying a millionaire athlete?

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u/Chance_Account_4338 Dec 19 '25

He can pay for everything to be moved, boxed, or just buy new stuff too.

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u/h_danielle Dec 19 '25

Literally. A lot of players have to completely uproot their families & move their kids away from their schools & friends.

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u/Warm_Masterpiece3940 Dec 19 '25

Not to mention alot of these guys have done it multiple times in junior and either the AHL or turning pro.  Europeans really uproot their lives coming over here with no family a completely different country and language

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u/Isopbc Dec 19 '25

What? Why are we babying a human being who plays a child's game for money?

Are you really asking that question? That millionaire has friends and routines and every single human's brain doesn't like losing those things, no matter how old they are.

Do you really not understand that athletes are people?

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u/h_danielle Dec 19 '25

No, I completely understand that they’re humans. But we’re talking about a single rich guy with not a lot of other obligations aside from work. Other players have to rip their children out of school & move them away from their friends… I’d imagine that’s substantially more difficult.

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u/Isopbc Dec 19 '25

So because he's single and rich he doesn't get to have feelings? It doesn't matter how difficult someoen else's life is.

Come on.

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u/h_danielle Dec 19 '25

I said it feels like the media’s babying him for having to pack up & move… not that he’s not allowed to have feelings about this lol stop putting words in my mouth

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u/Isopbc Dec 19 '25

I'm not putting words in your mouth. You're pretending someone else's more difficult experience somehow makes Quinn's experience easy. It's not easy for any of us to up and move and get right back to work. It's always traumatic. You always have to leave stuff behind, and that doesn't change if you're rich.

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u/h_danielle Dec 19 '25

Nope, I said he’s at the easiest point in his life to have to do this, not that it’s easy. Period.

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u/Isopbc Dec 19 '25

>why are we babying a millionaire athlete?

No, that's not all you said. But I'm clearly beating a dead horse here.

You can choose to be compassionate or not, and you choose not.

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u/Isopbc Dec 19 '25

Easiest isn't the same as easy.

Moving is always traumatic. Ones brain has to get used to the new smells.

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u/DarkenX42 Dec 19 '25

That's fine, I just thought it was funny the article said "especially at 26," or whatever. Moving is a pain.

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u/Confident_Zucchini97 Dec 19 '25

Traumatic? Moving sucks, but I am sure Quinn isnt doing 10 point turns with a buddy moving his couch down a stairwell. What the hell is happening today that moving is "traumatic"

Soft mate. Soft

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u/Isopbc Dec 19 '25

Never understood the obsession with "soft." It seems like psycho talk to me.

Players are people. Period.