Pinch yourself all you want, Minnesota Wild fans, but the Quinn Hughes trade was not some collective dream we all shared. It's a reality, and one that has put the entire NHL on notice thanks to the arrival of another Stanley Cup contender.
We still have to see how things go, but it's impossible to overstate to the uninitiated how big a deal this is to Minnesota hockey fans. The Wild have been in dead money hell for the entire decade, and the carrot dangling in front of everyone was that the team would finally be able to spend in free agency.