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With a perspective that can only be gained through experience, Quinn Hughes looks back and understands he made the right decision when he opted to return to the University of Michigan for this hockey season.

Back in the summer it was a different story. Hughes might have gone a buck seventy on a 5-foot-10 frame but if he was lacking in some areas, confidence wasn’t one of them. He was convinced he was ready to leap into the unforgiving world of the NHL. He believed he could succeed at the next level because he’d always succeeded at the next level.

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But that was then. This is now and let’s just say when you’re a grizzled 19-year-old, you just see things differently than a wide-eyed 18-year-old.

“I haven’t even thought about that decision in a long time,” Hughes says. “I trained myself to think there was no turning back so I don’t even bother thinking about the other options.

“I just thought about college and trying to get better, whether it’s in the weight room or with my game. I think I made a great decision.”