{"id":470512,"date":"2026-02-25T03:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/470512\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:02:31","slug":"jack-hughes-olympics-heroics-might-lift-him-into-new-nhl-stratosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/470512\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes&#8217; Olympics heroics might lift him into new NHL stratosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s been right here, under our noses for seven years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/24\/sports\/quinn-and-jack-hughes-speak-out-on-us-womens-hockey-drama\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American hero in waiting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the better part of those years (read: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/15\/sports\/devils-jack-hughes-undergoes-surgery-out-eight-weeks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when he\u2019s been healthy<\/a>), since he was drafted No. 1 overall by the Devils in 2019, an argument can be made that Jack Hughes has been the most dynamic young player among our three local NHL teams.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, he\u2019s been curiously overlooked, mostly because he doesn\u2019t play his home games at the World\u2019s Most Famous Arena, but also because he\u2019s been plagued with a litany of injuries that have stolen games from him and stunted his potential for greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s been right here, under our noses for seven years.\u00a0 An American hero in waiting. For the better&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,1272,576,151,5185,5184,4,2602,43,350,336,422,2787,31286],"class_list":{"0":"post-470512","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-jack-hughes","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-new-jersey-devils","13":"tag-newjersey","14":"tag-newjerseydevils","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-olympics","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-usa-hockey","21":"tag-winter-olympics","22":"tag-winter-olympics-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116129047791442581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470512","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=470512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}