Jack Hughes (ice hockey player, 2001)

United States Jack Hughes

Date of birth	May 14, 2001
place of birth	Orlando , Florida , USA
size	179 cm
Weight	76 kg

position	center
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2019 , 1st round, 1st position New Jersey Devils

Career stations

2014-2015	Toronto Marlboros
2015-2016	Mississauga Rebels
2016-2017	Toronto Marlboros
2017-2019	US National Team Development Program
since 2019	New Jersey Devils

Jack Hughes (born May 14, 2001 in Orlando , Florida ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League since July 2019 . The center is considered a great talent and was selected in first position by the Devils in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft .

Career

Hughes was born in Orlando , Florida , where his father Jim was an assistant coach with the Orlando Solar Bears in the International Hockey League at the time. As his father changed jobs, he spent parts of his childhood in Boston and Manchester (New Hampshire) . However, Hughes spent his youth in the Canadian metropolis of Toronto . There he played for several junior teams, including - with the start of the 2014/15 season - the Toronto Marlboros in the various classes Greater Toronto Hockey League . There followed a year with the Mississauga Rebels before he returned to the Marlboros. For the playoffs of 2017, the striker moved to the Georgetown Raiders in the Ontario Junior Hockey League , with whom he won the league title. Hughes himself contributed three scorer points in nine missions. Furthermore, he reached the final of the Dudley Hewitt Cup with the team .

For the 2017/18 season, the American moved back to his homeland, where he joined the National Team Development Program of the US ice hockey association USA Hockey . He spent most of the season with the team in the United States Hockey League . There he reached 54 scorer points in 27 missions. In all missions for the U17 and U18 teams of the US federation, he came to 87 games and 170 points.

In the run-up to the 2019 NHL Entry Draft , Hughes was almost unanimously traded as a likely first overall draft pick and was subsequently also considered in first position by the New Jersey Devils . This provided him with an entry-level contract in July of the same year before he earned a place in the squad as part of the season preparation and thus made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in October 2019 . He finished his first professional season with 21 points from 61 games.

International

At the international level, Hughes took part in a junior tournament for the first time with the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2017 in November 2017. The center forward led the team as team captain to win the gold medal. He collected a total of 15 points scorer in six tournament appearances, including five goals. He contributed four points in the final game. In addition to winning the gold medal, Hughes was the top scorer and best assist provider of the competition. A few months later, Hughes also took part in the 2018 U18 World Cup in Russia . Again, Hughes was the standout player on the team that won the silver medal. In addition, he was named Most Valuable Player after the tournament was over , and he was also elected to the All-Star Team and the best striker of the tournament. He also led the scoring and shared that of the best preparer with the Slovak Maxim Čajkovič .

At the U20 World Cup 2019 , Hughes made his debut for the U20 national team in his home country , where he also won the silver medal with the team. Later in the year he also took part in the U18 World Cup 2019 , where he won a bronze medal with the US boys. Hughes was the tournament's top scorer, breaking the points record set by Russian Alexander Ovechkin. In addition, Hughes was again on the All-Star team. A few days later he made his debut finally in the preparation for the men's World Cup 2019 , for which he was nominated as the youngest player in the USA, in the senior team .

Achievements and Awards

2017 OJHL Champion with the Georgetown Raiders

International

2017 gold medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2018 top scorer of the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2018 Best Assists in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
2018 silver medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
2018 top scorer of the U18 Junior World Championship
2018 Best assists in the U18 Junior World Championship (together with Maxim Čajkovič )
2018 Most valuable player in the U18 Junior World Championship

2018 Best striker in the U18 World Junior Championship
2018 All-Star Team of the U18 Junior World Championship
2019 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
2019 bronze medal at the U18 Junior World Championship
2019 top scorer of the U18 Junior World Championship
2019 Best assists in the U18 World Junior Championship
2019 All-Star-Team of the U18 Junior World Championship

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season					Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2017/18	US National Team Development Program	USHL	27	21st	33	54	10	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	US National Team Development Program	USHL	24	12	36	48	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	New Jersey Devils	NHL	61	7th	14th	21st	10	-	-	-	-	-
USHL total			51	33	69	102	14th	-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall			61	7th	14th	21st	10	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented the USA at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2017	United States	U17-WHC		6th	5	10	15th	2
2018	United States	U18 World Cup		7th	5	7th	12	2
2019	United States	U20 World Cup		4th	0	4th	4th	0
2019	United States	U18 World Cup		7th	9	11	20th	8th
2019	United States	WM	7th place	7th	0	3	3	0
Juniors overall				24	19th	32	51	12
Men overall				7th	0	3	3	0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹ play-downs / relegation )

family

Hughes came from a family of ice hockey players. His father Jim Hughes was the team captain for the Providence College ice hockey team . He was also an assistant coach for the Boston Bruins in the NHL. His mother, Ellen Weinberg, played for the University of New Hampshire and the United States women's national ice hockey team , with which she won the silver medal at the 1992 World Cup . His brother Quinn was selected as overall seventh in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft by the Vancouver Canucks . His younger brother Luke plays as a defense attorney for the Little Caesars Bantam Major AAA in Detroit .

Web links

Player biography on the New Jersey Devils website
Jack Hughes at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Report IIHF - All Star. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .
^ Report IIHF - Best Player. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .
↑ Elite Prospects - NHL Entry Draft 2018. Accessed September 30, 2018 .
^ Meet the Hughes brothers, America's future first family of hockey . In: ESPN.com . ( espn.com [accessed October 1, 2018]).

Squad of the New Jersey Devils in the season 2020/21

personal data
SURNAME	Hughes, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 2001
PLACE OF BIRTH	Orlando , Florida , USA

[1] Report IIHF - All Star. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .

[2] Report IIHF - Best Player. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .

[3] Elite Prospects - NHL Entry Draft 2018. Accessed September 30, 2018 .

[4] Meet the Hughes brothers, America's future first family of hockey . In: ESPN.com . ( espn.com [accessed October 1, 2018]).