{"id":442122,"date":"2026-01-30T02:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442122\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:54:21","slug":"devils-jack-hughes-exits-vs-predators-with-apparent-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442122\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils&#8217; Jack Hughes exits vs. Predators with apparent injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, N.J. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/new-jersey-devils\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-jersey-devils\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/jack-hughes\/1b48264e-4f71-4aaf-a263-62ba01d12b63\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"1b48264e-4f71-4aaf-a263-62ba01d12b63\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jack Hughes<\/a> left Thursday night&#8217;s game against Nashville in the first period and did not return at the start of the second.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes skated just three shifts. He took one shift and went to the locker room before returning for another and then heading down the tunnel again, followed by a trainer \u2014 all in the first 7:30 of the game. He logged 2 minutes, 27 seconds of ice time.<\/p>\n<p>The team did not announce any injury status for Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old missed five weeks earlier this season after injuring his right thumb at a team dinner and undergoing surgery on it on Nov. 15. Hughes had 14 points in his first 16 games back, including a pair of assists Tuesday night in a\u00a04-3 home loss\u00a0to Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes&#8217; latest absence comes two weeks before the U.S. is set to play its first game at the Milan Cortina Olympics. USA Hockey has already made one change to its 25-player roster, with\u00a0Jackson LaCombe replacing\u00a0injured defenceman Seth Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes, along with brother Quinn, is a first-time Olympian. The U.S. has two sets of brothers, with Matthew and Brady Tkachuk also on the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWARK, N.J. \u2014 New Jersey Devils centre Jack Hughes left Thursday night&#8217;s game against Nashville in the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-442122","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\/442122","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=442122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}