{"id":469128,"date":"2026-02-24T05:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/469128\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:07:14","slug":"jack-hughes-shuts-down-reporter-over-awkward-question-before-olympic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/469128\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes Shuts Down Reporter Over Awkward Question Before Olympic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Hughes might not have slept for nearly 48 hours.<\/p>\n

The American hero is back home in the United States after the men’s hockey<\/a> team landed in Florida following the long trip from the Winter Olympic Games in Milan.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Hughes scored the game-winning goal in overtime to bring Team USA its first men’s hockey gold medal in 46 years.<\/p>\n

Before the New Jersey Devils star defeated Canada, however, he lost something of his own.<\/p>\n

Two things, in fact.<\/p>\n

As time was winding down in the third period, Hughes lost two teeth after getting popped in the face with an errant high stick.<\/p>\n

After scoring the golden goal, Hughes was famously captured smiling, his grin broken, with the American flag draped across his back.<\/p>\n

While the jokes about his teeth might have been funny for the first few hours following the game, the 24-year-old seems done with being asked to show off his now iconic smile.<\/p>\n

More news: Jack Hughes Surprises With Who He Thought Of After USA\u2019s Olympic Win<\/a><\/p>\n

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More news: Jack Hughes\u2019 Letter to His Future Self Feels Powerful After Olympic Gold<\/a><\/p>\n

As Hughes prepared for the gold medal celebration at Miami’s famous nightclub E11EVEN, he was pulled aside by a local reporter to answer how it feels to be back on home soil.<\/p>\n

Hughes, gracious but obviously tired, said he was happy to be back and was ready to party again after spending the last night in the Olympic Village basking in the victory.<\/p>\n

Things got awkward, though, when the reporter asked one final thing of Hughes.<\/p>\n

“Can you give [Fox-7] News a smile real quick?”<\/p>\n

“Nah, man,” Hughes replied<\/a>. “I don’t even love these teeth. I don’t like this look for me.”<\/p>\n

After the reporter said the chipped teeth looked good for the country, Hughes said thanks and walked off.<\/p>\n

Hughes will have a quick turnaround if he gets any sleep tonight, as the Devils play at home against the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes might not have slept for nearly 48 hours. The American hero is back home in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,6,576,151,5185,5184,4,2602],"class_list":{"0":"post-469128","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-ice-hockey","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-new-jersey-devils","13":"tag-newjersey","14":"tag-newjerseydevils","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116123877659880698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469128","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=469128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}