Canucks fans are a little spoiled as they get to watch Hughes on a nightly basis. He pulls off moves that few players in the world can do while making it look easy. While the moves look spectacular from a distance, they are also stunning from ice level, according to Boeser.

That’s the window Canucks management is looking at. That is why they can’t dither anymore about the state of the team, especially the core. They need to assume that Hughes isn’t going to stick around, that he has a New Jersey Devils sweater in his future.