{"id":420684,"date":"2026-01-21T23:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/420684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:49:11","slug":"new-jersey-devils-place-defenceman-luke-hughes-shoulder-on-long-term-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/420684\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils place defenceman Luke Hughes (shoulder) on long-term injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> placed defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/&#009;luke-hughes-897782\/8482684\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/&#009;luke-hughes-897782\/8482684\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Hughes<\/a> on long-term injured reserve on Wednesday with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The move is retroactive to Jan. 19. In a corresponding move, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/colton-white\/8478841\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/colton-white\/8478841\" target=\"_blank\">Colton White<\/a> has been recalled from the American Hockey League\u2019s Utica Devils.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NEWS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NEWS<\/a>: We&#8217;ve placed D Luke Hughes (shoulder) on Long-Term Injured Reserve, retroactive to January 19.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also recalled D Colton White from Utica (AHL). He&#8217;s met the team in Vancouver. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bunILuNMph\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bunILuNMph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Jersey Devils (@NJDevils) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NJDevils\/status\/2014095735612961069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hughes, 22, incurred the injury during Monday night\u2019s 2-1 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a>. Hughes appeared to be hurt while chasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/justin-kirkland\/8477993\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/justin-kirkland\/8477993\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Kirkland<\/a> for a loose puck during the second period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Manchester, NH, Hughes is in his fourth NHL season after being selected with the fourth overall selection of the 2021 NHL Entry Draft out of the United States Hockey League\u2019s USA U-18 Development Team. He appeared in 49 games this season, scoring four goals and adding 21 assists while averaging 23:04 of ice time a night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hughes is the younger brother of Devils teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jack-hughes-359977\/8481559\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jack-hughes-359977\/8481559\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Hughes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/quinn-hughes\/8480800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/quinn-hughes\/8480800\" target=\"_blank\">Quinn Hughes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">White, 28, is in his second stint with the Devils. He has four assists in 23 games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Devils return to action on Friday night on the road against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Jersey Devils placed defenceman Luke Hughes on long-term injured reserve on Wednesday with a shoulder injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[4759,201,5,33380,576,151,33382,5185,5184,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-420684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-devils","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-luke-hughes-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482684","12":"tag-new-jersey","13":"tag-new-jersey-devils","14":"tag-new-jersey-devils-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-1","15":"tag-newjersey","16":"tag-newjerseydevils","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115935770364350820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}