{"id":538230,"date":"2026-04-03T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/538230\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:23:02","slug":"capitals-jack-hughes-has-2-goals-3-assists-in-devils-7-3-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/538230\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals: Jack Hughes has 2 goals, 3 assists in Devils\u2019 7-3 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"text-container\">NEWARK, N.J. \u2014 Jack Hughes had two goals and three assists and Dawson Mercer scored twice as the New Jersey Devils beat the Washington Capitals 7-3 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Hughes scored his first goal 9:10 into the second period on a wrist shot, assisted by Jesper Bratt and Johnathan Kovacevic. He tacked on a wrist shot 8:10 into the third, assisted by Bratt and Connor Brown. Hughes has 24 goals and 44 assists this season.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Bratt, Dougie Hamilton and Cody Glass also scored for the Devils.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Tom Wilson, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Cole Hutson scored for the Capitals.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Jake Allen made 29 saves for the Devils. Logan Thompson had 23 for the Caps.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Devils: Host the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Capitals: Host the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWARK, N.J. \u2014 Jack Hughes had two goals and three assists and Dawson Mercer scored twice as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5109],"tags":[967,201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4,61718],"class_list":{"0":"post-538230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-devils","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-new-jersey-devils","13":"tag-newjersey","14":"tag-newjerseydevils","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-penn-north"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116340053607678058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538230","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=538230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}