Devils' top scorer Jack Hughes sidelined rest of season after shoulder surgery

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 05, 2025 5:31 PM EST | Last Updated: March 5

New Jersey Devils starring scorer Jack Hughes had enarthrosis country and is retired for the season, a stroke to the team's hopes of making a playoff run.

The squad said Hughes had country connected his close enarthrosis successful Vail, Colo., connected Wednesday aft tests and conversations with his family, cause and aesculapian staffs. The anticipation is that helium volition beryllium acceptable for grooming camp.

Hughes, 23, was injured erstwhile helium slammed into the boards aft getting tangled up with Golden Knights centre Jack Eichel precocious successful New Jersey's nonaccomplishment astatine Vegas connected Sunday night.

The Devils enactment Hughes connected semipermanent injured reserve, a roster determination that gives them immoderate abstraction to usage against the wage headdress earlier the NHL commercialized deadline connected Friday.

He leads the squad with 70 points connected 27 goals and 43 assists.

Defenseman Dougie Hamilton was injured Tuesday nighttime astatine Dallas, and manager Sheldon Keefe did not person an update erstwhile asked earlier Wednesday.

The NHL fined Keefe $25,000 US connected Wednesday for unprofessional behaviour toward officials that led to his ejection Sunday aft Hughes was injured.

The league announced the punishment Wednesday. The wealth goes to the NHL Foundation.

Keefe was incensed nary punishment was called erstwhile Hughes crashed into the boards.

"I get kicked disconnected the seat for telling the referee I felt that it was 10 times worse than the [interference penalty] that was antecedently called connected Jack," Keefe said successful Las Vegas.

Quinn Hughes to beryllium reassessed Thursday

Canucks skipper Quinn Hughes volition not play Wednesday erstwhile Vancouver hosts the Anaheim Ducks.

Hughes volition get attraction for a lower-body wounded and beryllium reassessed connected Thursday, said caput manager Rick Tocchet.

He added the ailment is not the aforesaid contented — reported to beryllium an oblique (rib cage) wounded — that kept the 25-year-old prima defenceman retired of six NHL games and forced him to propulsion retired of the United States squad astatine the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament.

The 2nd wounded whitethorn person been caused successful portion from Hughes's assemblage overcompensating for the first, Tocchet said.

"When you're dealing with something, thing other benignant of gets affected," helium said. "It's a batch of antithetic things – however choky you are, and each that benignant of stuff."

Hughes returned to Vancouver's lineup connected Feb. 26 but was wounded again successful Vancouver's 6-3 nonaccomplishment to the Seattle Kraken connected Saturday.

He had 1 assistance crossed 3 contests successful his return.

"Eighty per cent Quinn we'll instrumentality connected our squad close now. But we've besides got to beryllium cautious due to the fact that helium wasn't himself the past mates of games," Tocchet said.

The manager said helium doesn't expect Hughes to instrumentality to 100 per cent wellness this season.

Hughes is the reigning Norris Trophy victor arsenic the league's apical defenceman and leads the Canucks (27-22-11) successful scoring with 14 goals and 60 points successful 50 games this season.