Truth By Numbers: Quinn Hughes becoming one of the NHL's best defencemen - Sportsnet.ca

Hughes has been the seventh-most involved defenceman in his team’s offence of all blueliners left playing , creating 4.36 scoring chances every 20 minutes he’s on the ice. And he has the puck on his stick for a higher percentage of his ice time than any defenceman not named John Klingberg, with 2:02 of every 20 minutes being controlled by Hughes.

The real heavy duty impact he has, though, is what makes the rest of the differentials look small by comparison: his impact on slot passes. Without Hughes on the ice, the Canucks are getting just 36.2 per cent of the slot passes at 5-on-5, compared to 61.5 per cent when he’s on the ice.

That may be damning with faint praise for a player who has consistently been given more ice time than his play warrants, but there were some positives for Ceci this year. He had one of the lowest dump out rates in the league at just 21.3 per cent, and a high defensive zone exit success rate of 52.4 per cent. He was in the top 10 per cent of all defencemen for both, seriously.

He’s in the bottom 20 per cent of the league in cycle chances against per 20 minutes, and bottom 10 per cent in both entry denials and entry denial rate.

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