{"id":456955,"date":"2026-02-13T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/456955\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:59:15","slug":"meet-team-usa-hockey-stars-and-brothers-jack-and-quinn-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/456955\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Team USA Hockey Stars\u2014and Brothers\u2014Jack and Quinn Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel isn\u2019t the most ceremonious of locations, but it was something of an American athlete-sighting hotspot over the first few days of the Milano Cortina Winter Games<\/a>. As competitors deplaned, the first stop for many would be the \u201cTeam USA Welcome Event\u201d in a temporarily built-out atrium on the Sheraton\u2019s first floor, with booths from Ralph Lauren, Skims, New Era, and even Starbucks\u2014all Team USA sponsors, and all ready to heap swag upon the inbound athletes. I think Access Hollywood even had a reporter on site.<\/p>\n

There, at Ralph Lauren\u2019s set-up (where the company had tailors on hand, just in case), I met brothers and hockey phenoms Jack and Quinn Hughes. They\u2019d flown overnight from JFK and were dropping in to pick up their closing ceremony outfits: color-blocked parkas with \u201c2026\u201d printed on the front.<\/p>\n

I felt a little bad that there were so many cameras around\u2014kind of tough after a redeye\u2014but the guys didn\u2019t seem to mind. \u201cWe\u2019re not too bad,\u201d said Quinn of the jet lag.<\/p>\n

Orlando, Florida-born Quinn, 26, and Jack, 24, are big names in the National Hockey League\u2014an organization that has its stars, for sure, but does not project or vaunt celebrity quite as much as the NBA or NFL. Jack is a center forward on the New Jersey Devils, and holds that franchise\u2019s record for the most points scored in a single season\u201499 (43 goals, 56 assists)\u2014which he set between 2022 and 2023. He\u2019s been named an NHL All-Star three times. Quinn, a defenseman currently with the Minnesota Wild and a two-time All-Star, led the entire NHL in defenseman points over that same season (back then, he played for the Vancouver Canucks). Quinn was drafted in 2018, Jack in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Jack Hughes (#86 of the New Jersey Devils) and Quinn Hughes (#43 of the Minnesota Wild) before a game in St. Paul in January.<\/p>\n

Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Hughes boys hail from a notable hockey family. Their younger brother, Luke, also currently plays for the Devils. Their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, is a consultant for the US women\u2019s hockey team at these same Olympics\u2014a squad that claimed an early 5-0 victory over rival Canada. (It was the first time Canada\u2019s women\u2019s team had been shut out in any Winter Games.) Weinberg-Hughes was also on the US Women\u2019s National Team herself, helping them win a silver medal at the 1992 World Championships.<\/p>\n

True to their athlete bones, the prize is what they\u2019re here for; family time can wait. \u201cI think all three of us have come to try to win the gold medal. That\u2019s the most important thing: coming here and trying to do well,\u201d Jack said. \u201cDoing this with Quinn, though\u2026 it is super special, and it\u2019s something that I\u2019ve really been looking forward to.\u201d (US men\u2019s hockey has another pair of brothers, too: Matthew and Brady Tkachuk.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel isn\u2019t the most ceremonious of locations, but it was something of an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4,5966],"class_list":{"0":"post-456955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-new-jersey-devils","12":"tag-newjersey","13":"tag-newjerseydevils","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-olympic-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116064392641725370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456955","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=456955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}