{"id":499697,"date":"2026-02-26T00:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499697\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:57:07","slug":"olympic-star-jack-hughes-returns-to-nhl-missing-a-few-front-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499697\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic star Jack Hughes returns to NHL &#8212; missing a few front teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, N.J. (AP) \u2014 U.S. Olympic hero Jack Hughes was honored by the New Jersey Devils before their game Wednesday night against Buffalo as NHL play resumed following a three-week break.<\/p>\n<p>The Devils showed video of Hughes&#8217; overtime goal in the United States&#8217; 2-1 victory over Canada on Sunday in the gold medal game in Milan. The 24-year-old center lost a few teeth in the third period of that game when he was high-sticked by Sam Bennett.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so proud and so happy that the men\u2019s and women\u2019s hockey teams brought the gold medal back to America,\u201d Hughes told the crowd. \u201cAnd I\u2019m so proud to represent the New Jersey Devils organization and to represent the great state of New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was not at the morning skate Wednesday. He arrived in New Jersey late Tuesday night after being recognized with his U.S. teammates by President Donald Trump at the State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, a popular deli near the Prudential Center named a sandwich after Hughes. The sandwich is advertised as being \u2018so tender, you don\u2019t need teeth.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everett Merrill, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWARK, N.J. (AP) \u2014 U.S. Olympic hero Jack Hughes was honored by the New Jersey Devils before their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,12429,749,448,82],"class_list":["post-499697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jack-hughes","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499697","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=499697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}