Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin reportedly met with Quinn Hughes in Michigan last week, hoping to make progress in signing the 26-year-old superstar defenseman.
Hughes is set to become an unrestricted free agent next summer, but the Wild can sign him to an extension now. On June 24, Wild owner Craig Leipold said his club would sign the 2024 Norris Trophy winner, adding it was a question of how long the deal would be.
That was before the Philadelphia Flyers signed Anaheim Ducks center Leo Carlsson to a five-year offer sheet worth an average annual value of $18 million.
The Ducks matched the offer, but the ripples from Carlsson’s new contract will affect every superstar