Jack Hughes silences doubters with forever aim:…
MILAN — It was just over two weeks in the past in New Jersey, and Jack Hughes was standing on the ice in avenue garments. In their last recreation before the break, the Devils have been holding a ceremony to honor their Olympians, and the big query was whether or not Jack would get booed by his home crowd.
He wasn’t, in the end, but there was real animosity among Devils followers toward their best participant over a pileup of circumstances: a poorly worded reply at a charity perform; a irritating season in which Hughes had missed time with a hand injury incurred at a group dinner and didn’t look fairly proper upon return; plus the optics of him lacking New Jersey’s last recreation before the break before flying to Milan, where he can be a “full go” for Team USA.
There was so a lot on the road for Hughes in these Olympics, past his popularity with followers of his own group. He hadn’t produced in the 4 Nations Face-off. His playoff résumé was short. He began right here on the fourth line.
“Yeah, people don’t know s–t,” Quinn Hughes said Sunday, after his brother authored an Olympic second for which America has waited 46 years, the 2-1 additional time winner for a gold medal over Canada. “There’s a bunch of idiots out there and no one’s rehabbed before, you know? There’s reporters out there saying this and that. They don’t know what it’s like to get surgery for six months, not really feel good for 10 months and do that back-to-back. For him to just persevere and keep believing and just keep going, no matter what happens, he’s a special guy. Special player.”
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