{"id":493594,"date":"2026-03-08T19:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/493594\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:22:10","slug":"jack-hughes-is-getting-love-from-rangers-fans-after-team-usa-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/493594\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes is getting love from Rangers fans after Team USA win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/new-jersey-devils\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/new-york-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a> faced off on Saturday, with the Devils taking the 6-3 victory. Devils and <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/team-usa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team USA<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/jack-hughes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Hughes<\/a> was electrifying in the game, scoring three goals. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/new-jersey-devils\/devils-news-devils-jack-hughes-shares-moment-eli-manning-after-rangers-clash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hughes also got to share a moment with Eli Manning<\/a> after the game.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Hughes <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JLazzy23\/status\/2030448352194707577?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">spoke about facing<\/a> the Rangers and his Team USA teammate Vincent Trochek and coach Mike Sullivan, per Jonny Lazarus of Daily Faceoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know it\u2019s funny \u2014 after Olympics I got Ranger fans cheering for me and it\u2019s an unbelievable fan base, but in the past \u2014 they\u2019ll be like \u2014 say something nice and then be like \u2018Go Rangers\u2019. Now it\u2019s like, we\u2019re all Americans. They\u2019re proud Americans. I think it\u2019s really cool that that happened and obviously it\u2019ll continue to happen with the Devils fan base,\u201d Hughes said following the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Devils&#8217; star scored his first goal of the game in the second period on the power play, making it 3-2 at the time. He would score a second goal of the game with just over three minutes left in the game, making it 5-3 for the Devils. After that goal, fans were chanting \u201cUSA!\u201d He then completed his hat trick on an empty net goal late in the third period. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/new-york-rangers-new-jersey-devils-game-recap-march-7-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was a solid game facing their rival<\/a>, and a game Hughes looks forward to, per Mike G. Morreale of NHL.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the schedule, you&#8217;re looking for the Rangers games,\u201d Hughes said. \u201cDevils and Rangers. \u2026 Great rivalry, great fan bases. It&#8217;s fun to go into [Madison Square Garden] and it&#8217;s fun here when there&#8217;s a lot of Rangers fans and a lot of red too, Devils fans. I enjoy playing these games. It&#8217;s a game you circle on the calendar and you want to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hughes and the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/nhl-stories\/clutchpoints-nhl-power-rankings-week-19-trade-deadline-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devils are now 32-29-2 on the season<\/a>, placing them seventh in the Metropolitan Division. They return to the ice Sunday night, hosting the Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers faced off on Saturday, with the Devils taking the 6-3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,1272,576,151,35,5185,5184,4,3255],"class_list":{"0":"post-493594","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-new-york-rangers","14":"tag-newjersey","15":"tag-newjerseydevils","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-team-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116195186793959563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493594","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=493594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}