{"id":474868,"date":"2026-02-18T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474868\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:04:09","slug":"this-is-the-jack-hughes-the-u-s-mens-hockey-team-was-envisioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474868\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Jack Hughes the U.S. men&#8217;s hockey team was envisioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN \u2014 He has looked like a different Jack Hughes than the one who showed up at 4 Nations a year ago, doing more with less of a role.<\/p>\n<p>He has looked like a different Jack Hughes than the one who\u2019s had an injury-riddled season and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/05\/sports\/jack-hughes-has-every-right-to-play-in-olympics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drawn the ire of the Devils\u2019 fan base<\/a>, controlling the puck and dominating shifts.<\/p>\n<p>He has sounded like a different Jack Hughes off the ice, suddenly smiling and affable and engaging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust been fun playing with all these guys,\u201d Team USA\u2019s No. 86 said following practice on Tuesday. \u201cGuys you\u2019re always playing against. Feel like the buildup to the Olympics has been so big for so many years. Just to be here, be in the experience and be in the moment, it\u2019s so fun. We\u2019ve been looking forward to it for so long, so to be here is an unbelievable experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 He has looked like a different Jack Hughes than the one who showed up at 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[152840,4822,385,1082,99,362,358,42270,211565],"class_list":{"0":"post-474868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-jack-hughes","9":"tag-new-jersey-devils","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-olympics","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-team-usa","16":"tag-winter-olympics-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474868","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=474868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}