{"id":291998,"date":"2025-11-14T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/291998\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:49:07","slug":"devils-star-jack-hughes-being-evaluated-for-non-hockey-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/291998\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils star Jack Hughes being evaluated for non-hockey injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"beb0cb35-4d9f-a5e8-9e7b-d5ca97e51d93\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nj\/new-jersey-devils\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> star <a data-player-guid=\"2f88918b-3298-ca4b-e0c1-7f045469143d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4565222\/jack-hughes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Hughes<\/a> is being evaluated for a non-hockey injury on his hand, the team announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Hughes injured his hand in a &#8220;freak accident&#8221; at a team dinner on Thursday. While the team is en route to Washington for a game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-capitals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Capitals<\/a> on Saturday, Hughes returned to New Jersey for further evaluation, sources said. The 24-year-old is not expected to play in Saturday&#8217;s game, and the team should have clarity on the timeline for return after that.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was off to a terrific start for New Jersey, which is 12-4-1 and atop the Metropolitan Division entering Friday. The American-born star has 10 goals and 20 points in his first 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how the injury could affect Hughes&#8217; status for Team USA for the 2026 Olympics in Milan. Hughes&#8217; brother, Quinn, has already been named to the team. The Devils star was also expected to be named to the roster, which is due on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils star Jack Hughes is being evaluated for a non-hockey injury on his hand, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-291998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}