Willes' Musings: High praise for Quinn Hughes at NHL All-Star Weekend

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OPINION: NHL All-Star Weekend sheds a whole new light on the brilliance of Quinn Hughes

• Another NHL All-Star Weekend has come and gone with the usual assortment of highlights and lowlights. If you set your expectations low enough and focus on the fun bits, it’s a reasonably entertaining divertissement. If you’re looking for anything else, well, you haven’t been paying attention for the last 30 years.

Just wondering if 20 years from now this game will be referred to as Hughes’s first-all star appearance.2: Bringing in Green Day to perform.• It’s hard to process the sudden passing of Kobe Bryant let alone try to put the man and his career in some kind of perspective. Bryant was 41. It seemed like we had plenty of time for that exercise.

Team USA, of course, destroyed the field that year, pummelling the Argentines by 30 in the semifinal before downing a game Spanish squad led by the Gasol brothers in the gold-medal game. They haven’t lost a game since. I got to see the legend live in his last Masters and last U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. On his last hole, he hit the par-five 18th in two, then wept openly as the crowd saluted him.• Speaking of Woods, didn’t see Marc Leishman coming out of the pack to win at Torrey Pines over the weekend but it’s hard to keep your eyes off Tiger if he’s anywhere near the top of the leaderboard.

• And finally, Hall of Fame inductions are supposed to be a moment of celebration, not of relief but there was a bit of both for Larry Walker last week. There was also something about Walker that’s so quintessentially Canadian. The self-deprecating sense of humour — who else would have @cdnmooselips33 as their twitter handle — and the sense of perspective. Even his backstory is soaked with maple syrup

 

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