{"id":106636,"date":"2025-08-30T00:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106636\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T00:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:39:15","slug":"heres-the-latest-on-devils-luke-hughes-extension-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106636\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the latest on Devils-Luke Hughes extension talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Z66NHJDO6NHTTBFYXJLEVHYWBM\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/devils\/2025\/08\/latest-on-devils-luke-hughes-contract-jack-hughes-injury-novozinsky-mailbag.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke Hughes<\/a> situation is getting tricky. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/devils\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Devils<\/a> are still negotiating hard with their 21-year-old restricted free agent, but several factors are drawing out the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3DPP27BK2NAVHIKHXSKOUUL7QE\">For starters, the two sides seemingly want different things. Last we heard, the Devils were seeking either a short bridge deal (around three years) or the max eight years, while the Hughes side wants Luke\u2019s deal up to line up with his brother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/devils\/2025\/03\/jack-hughes-injury-deals-devils-massive-blow-hes-done-for-the-season.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jack<\/a>\u2018s (Jack becomes a free agent in 2030, so this would mean a five-year extension for Luke).<\/p>\n<p>If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Luke Hughes situation is getting tricky. The Devils are still negotiating hard with their 21-year-old restricted free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-106636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}