Patrick WilliamsTheAHL.com Features Writer
Quinn Hutson He returned from his latest stretch in the National Hockey League earlier this week, and he continues to make it harder for the Oilers to keep him out of Edmonton.
The 24-year-old rookie plays his latest show in Abbotsford. He had two goals and an assist to help the Bakersfield Condors beat the Canucks 5-3 on Tuesday night in his sixth three-point game of the season. He then scored a power-play goal on Wednesday to help the Condors sweep their Pacific Division rivals 4-1.
Hutson leads the entire American Hockey League with 22 goals. He scored 36 points, two shy of the league leader. He has totaled nine goals and 12 points in his last six games for Bakersfield.
Hutson has excellent shooting ability and has taken 82 shots so far this season. He's 5-foot-11 and 176 pounds, but he can make solid plays, make contact and manage his defensive duties.
brother Ryan Hutson Quinn, who won the Calder Trophy as the National Hockey League's outstanding rookie last season, joined the Oilers as an undrafted free agent from Boston College last April. He appeared in two games with Edmonton late last season and has appeared in four NHL games so far in the 2025-26 season, scoring his first major league goal on December 18 against the Bruins in Boston. During his most recent tenure, Oilers head coach Chris Knoblauch Deploy Hutson on the line with fellow draftees Isaac Howard and Bakersfield graduate Matt Savoy.
Hutson and Howard, both first-year pros, produced dominant scoring performances for the Condors when they were together in Bakersfield. Howard had 23 points in 16 AHL games and was named Fortune Tires' Expect More AHL Player of the Month for December, while Hutson earned Upper Deck AHL Rookie of the Month honors. As head coach of the Condors, getting them on the ice together Colin Chalk Being able to play games at different points this season and see how they perform. Bakersfield ranks second in the AHL with 3.64 goals per game. The same goes for Game of Thrones, which had a click-through rate of 26.1%. Hutson, for his part, leads opposing penalty killers in both power-play goals (10) and power-play points (18 points).
The Pacific Division is in chaos and the AHL schedule is quickly reaching the midpoint. Bakersfield sits in the middle of the standings, with eight points separating the top eight teams. A quick run can propel a team past several competitors, but even a brief misstep can mean a drop in the standings. In the Pacific Region, the division champion will receive a first-round bye, but the teams ranked second through seventh must play a best-of-three first-round series. Therefore, every point the Condors can score while Hutson is still in the lineup is crucial.
After a 50-point season at Boston College last spring, Hutson had no shortage of suitors. Edmonton felt like a good fit. If he has to spend more time developing in Bakersfield, that's okay. The Condors like him as long as he remains on the roster.
“I think there's a path for me here,” Hutson recently told reporters in Edmonton. “Maybe it's going to go faster than I thought.”
So what does he need to do while in Bakersfield?
“Keep going, work hard, don’t put yourself down and stay confident.”
About two decades in the American Hockey League, TheAHL.com feature writer Patrick Williams also currently covers the league for NHL.com and FloSports and is a regular contributor to SiriusXM NHL Network Radio. In 2016, he received the AHL's James H. Ellery Memorial Award for outstanding coverage of the league.
