{"id":538046,"date":"2026-03-22T05:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538046\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T05:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:40:14","slug":"hughes-brothers-take-photo-with-alex-ovechkins-sons-after-capitals-devils-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538046\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes brothers take photo with Alex Ovechkin\u2019s sons after Capitals-Devils game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Capitals defeated the New Jersey Devils 2-1 on Friday, and after the game, there was a meeting between two sets of famous hockey brothers.<\/p>\n<p>In a photo posted by <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Alex Ovechkin&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/alex-ovechkin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a>\u2018s wife, Nastya Ovechkina, <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Jack Hughes&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/jack-hughes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Hughes<\/a> and <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Luke Hughes&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/luke-hughes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Hughes<\/a> posed with the couple\u2019s two sons, Sergei and Ilya.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was notable not only for the two pairs of brothers dapping each other up, but also for what was in the background. Jack and Luke had brought signed sticks to the meetup. Luke\u2019s autographed twig is in the foreground while Jack\u2019s is behind his.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-586544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/jack-hughes-luke-sticks.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Hughes and Luke Hughes sticks\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"  \/>\ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nastyashubskaya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@nastyashubskaya\/Instagram Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sticks suggest another memorabilia swap, which Ovechkin has been holding both publicly and privately with NHL stars throughout this season, to collect gear for his future hockey museum in Moscow, Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Not only has Ovechkin been collecting twigs, but he\u2019s also notably exchanged jerseys with <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/17\/alex-ovechkin-jersey-swap-anze-kopitar-kings-capitals-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings forward Anze Kopitar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/07\/alex-ovechkin-evgeni-malkin-jersey-swap-900-goals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/12\/02\/brady-tkachuk-alex-ovechkin-jersey-swap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/13\/alex-ovechkin-brad-marchand-swap-jerseys-capitals-panthers-1000-points\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers forward Brad Marchand<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/01\/17\/alex-ovechkin-jersey-swap-with-marie-philip-poulin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team Canada superstar Marie-Philip Poulin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing that makes me sad is you see these jersey swaps,\u201d Matthew Tkachuk <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/12\/02\/brady-tkachuk-alex-ovechkin-jersey-swap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said on his Wingmen Podcast<\/a>, \u201cit\u2019s like, man, I hope this isn\u2019t the last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hughes-Ovechkin pic also featured Jack Hughes showing off his fixed smile for the first time since the Olympics. The superstar forward, who <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/02\/22\/jack-hughes-scores-golden-goal-team-usa-gold-medal-1980-miralce-on-ice-canada-olympics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scored the Golden Goal for Team USA<\/a>, was high-sticked during the championship game of the tournament, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/photographer-hockey-jack-hughes-toothless-grin-gold-medal-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having several teeth chipped at the top of his mouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-586550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/jack-hughes-fixed-smile.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Hughes fixed smile after the Olympics\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\"  \/>\ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nastyashubskaya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@nastyashubskaya\/Instagram Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals defeated the New Jersey Devils 2-1 on Friday, and after the game, there was a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-538046","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\/538046","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=538046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}