{"id":267769,"date":"2025-11-07T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267769\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:36:08","slug":"jack-hughes-start-could-be-the-makings-of-an-mvp-caliber-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267769\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes\u2019 start could be the makings of an MVP-caliber season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/new-jersey-devils\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> have gotten off to a fast start in the 2025-26 NHL regular season and enter Thursday night\u2019s clash with the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/teams\/montreal-canadiens\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> sitting atop the Metropolitan Division.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Yet, of all the good stories happening on head coach Travis Green\u2019s team, the success of center Jack Hughes has been among the leading themes. Now in his seventh NHL season, Hughes has 10 goals and six assists in his first 13 games, currently sitting tied for first in NHL goalscoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Thursday\u2019s episode of <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F7ktwDaH7W0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Daily Faceoff Live,<\/a> New Jersey Hockey Now\u2019s James Nichols joined hosts Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton to break down the hot starts for Hughes and his Devils.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Yaremchuk: Let\u2019s start at the top of this Devils lineup\u2026with 10 goals on the season for Jack Hughes, nine of them at even strength. Are we in the first month of what could be an MVP-caliber season?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Nichols: He and the Devils are certainly hoping so. He looked really good, really strong through the first 13 games, and he\u2019s out to prove to everyone. Obviously, the injuries over the past couple of seasons have been the narrative around him, and coming in, there were questions about whether he could be the same player or not due to those injuries. Now, he\u2019s come in looking better than ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">There was a lot of talk about how this surgery would make him stronger and better than ever, and so far, so good. He\u2019s the motor that makes the Devils\u2019 engine rev, and it\u2019s been a great benefit for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">When I watch the Devils this year, there\u2019s his speed and his availability, but what I really noticed was their back end \u2014like a healthy Dougie Hamilton, what Brendan Dillon has done there\u2026 what can you say about your back end just making it easier for their two veteran goalies?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You can catch the full Devils breakdown and the rest of the latest episode right here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Jersey Devils have gotten off to a fast start in the 2025-26 NHL regular season and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-267769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}