The New Jersey Devils are off to a horrendous start. None of us expected what has transpired over the last two games, a blown lead, a blowout loss, and a bad Jack Hughes.
The Devils magical summer began when they won the NHL Draft Lottery and the chance to draft a player as exciting as Hughes. The kid is 18-years-old and probably doesn’t even shave, yet he’s burdened by the weight of an entire franchise and that’s not an overstatement. Make no mistake, that’s a lot for anybody, let alone a young man like Hughes to deal with and so far he’s struggled to deliver.