{"id":132114,"date":"2025-09-09T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132114\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:03:07","slug":"jack-hughes-would-love-to-play-with-quinn-confident-luke-stays-with-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132114\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes would ‘love’ to play with Quinn, confident Luke stays with Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"

HENDERSON, NV \u2014 Jack Hughes<\/a> expressed confidence that younger brother Luke will remain his New Jersey Devils<\/a> teammate, despite growing concern from fans over the stud defenceman\u2019s lack of employment.<\/p>\n

\u201cEventually it\u2019ll get done,\u201d Jack\u00a0told Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas Tuesday during a recording of the\u00a032 Thoughts\u00a0podcast in Henderson, Nevada.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet training camp is just days away and there is still a negotiating gap to be closed with the restricted free agent. Any worries the stalemate fails to result in a contract?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think so. He enjoys playing in New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack was reminded of older brother Matthew Tkachuk\u2019s outspoken involvement in younger brother Brady\u2019s pivotal RFA negotiation back in September 2021. (\u201cIt\u2019s a family business. Nobody wants to deal with the Tkachuks in this,\u201d Matthew\u00a0said at the time<\/a>. \u201cBut we do it by committee.\u201d) Though the Tkachuk brothers remain divisional rivals, Jack and Luke have even more reason to feel invested in each other\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m giving really political answers, because that’s what you’re supposed to do,\u201d Jack admitted, with a grin. \u201cEven more so than Matthew, like, I\u2019m on Luke\u2019s team. So, I want to see it get done. But, yeah, obviously, there’s a lot of pieces in play. I know he wants to stay in New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jack\u2019s assertion aligns with that of Devils GM Tom Fitzgerald, who is still toiling away on the top item of his off-season to-do list.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t sense anything other than Luke wants to be a Devil for a long time,\u201d Fitzgerald said.<\/p>\n

Fitzgerald has a projected $6.1 million in cap space, according to\u00a0PuckPedia.com.<\/p>\n

Luke prefers to sign a five-year contract,\u00a0reported NJ.com\u2019s Ryan Novozinsky<\/a>, that would take him to directly to unrestricted free agency \u2014 and, presumably, a second big payday \u2014 at age 26.<\/p>\n

Such a term would mean Jack and Luke hitting the open market together in the summer of 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Devils, understandably, would rather bridge at three years or lock Hughes up for eight.<\/p>\n

Would Jack and Luke prefer to align their expiry dates?<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, for sure,\u201d Jack said. \u201cI think that report \u2014 I saw it too \u2014 it’s probably just a shot in the dark, though. Where is he getting this information from?<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, just from the outside, like, anyone at any bar talking hockey can be like: \u2018I’m sure the Hughes brothers want their contracts to match up.\u2019 For sure. But then there’s so many things that come into play: money, the term, and the money\u2019s always changing,\u201d Jack said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think (a five-year deal for Luke) is a make-or-break thing. Luke is his own guy. I want Luke to set himself up for the rest of his life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

A juicy eight-year extension? Great. A three-year pact? So be it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hey, as far as Jack is concerned, three more years could be perfect for oldest bother Quinn. The captain of the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> is scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent in 2027 and will be eligible to re-sign in Vancouver on July 1.<\/p>\n

Until he does, speculation that all three Hughes brothers could one day suit up for the same NHL team will linger.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I’m not afraid to say it. Yeah, I would love for Quinn to \u2014 eventually I’d love to play with him. And whether that’s in New Jersey or at what time that takes, at some point I want to play with Quinn,\u201d Jack told reporters Monday in Las Vegas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, yeah, that\u2019s the question going around. They talk all day about it up in Vancouver, you know? But, yeah, I’d love to play with Quinn at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everyone was a bit surprised,\u201d Jack said in his\u00a032 Thoughts\u00a0interview, flashing a smile. As the only Hughes brother not dealing with contract uncertainty, Jack seems relieved to be on the sidelines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I’m the guy on the eight-year deal, you know?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Though Jack describes Rutherford as \u201ca straight shooter,\u201d he maintains that Quinn is consumed with driving the Canucks back to the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, he\u2019s either gonna stay or he\u2019s gonna go,\u201d Jack said. \u201cHe still likes it there.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuinn\u2019s not the one making any noise. Quinn has one focus \u2014 and that\u2019s go to Vancouver, play elite hockey and get in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HENDERSON, NV \u2014 Jack Hughes expressed confidence that younger brother Luke will remain his New Jersey Devils teammate,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-132114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132114","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=132114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}