{"id":539016,"date":"2026-04-03T19:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539016\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:41:46","slug":"jack-hughes-5-point-game-powers-devils-to-a-7-3-win-over-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539016\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes&#8217; 5-point game powers Devils to a 7-3 win over Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>Hughes scored his first goal for the Devils 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>Bratt, Dougie Hamilton and Cody Glass also scored for the Devils.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Wilson, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Cole Hutson scored for the Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Allen made 29 saves in the win for the Devils. Logan Thompson had 23 saves for the Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Devils: Host the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Capitals: Host the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Hughes had two goals and three assists and Dawson Mercer scored twice as the New Jersey Devils&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,5,4,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-539016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-capitals","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-capitals","13":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116342481531405276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539016","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=539016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}