{"id":182775,"date":"2025-10-01T14:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182775\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:57:07","slug":"luke-hughes-signs-seven-year-63-million-extension-with-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182775\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Hughes signs seven-year, $63-million extension with Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/luke-hughes\/6949e7e4-a2a6-4e08-8cee-e4cd5e46d0e7\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"6949e7e4-a2a6-4e08-8cee-e4cd5e46d0e7\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Luke Hughes<\/a> has signed a seven-year contract extension with an average annual value of $9 million, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes, 22, entered the off-season as a restricted free agent following the expiry of his three-year, $2.78-million entry-level contract.<\/p>\n<p>Picked fourth overall by the Devils in the 2021 NHL Draft, Hughes made his NHL debut late in 2022-23 after finishing his second season at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was named to the NHL&#8217;s all-rookie team in 2024 after his first full season in the league.<\/p>\n<p>In 71 games last season, Hughes posted 44 points (seven goals and 37 assists). He appeared in Game 1 of the Devils\u2019 first-round series against the Carolina Hurricanes but suffered a shoulder injury that required surgery. He missed the remainder of the series \u2014 which the Devils lost in five games.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes has recorded 93 points (17 goals and 76 assists) across 155 career NHL games.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes&#8217; brother and teammate, Jack Hughes, is entering the fourth year of an eight-year deal with the Devils. <\/p>\n<p>Quinn Hughes, a brother of both Devils, is the captain of the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Hughes has signed a seven-year contract extension with an average annual value of $9 million, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-182775","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\/182775","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=182775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}