LAS VEGAS, NV - The Devils did not have an update on the status of center Jack Hughes on Tuesday afternoon.
“He’s continuing to be evaluated. We don’t know the full extent of it yet,” Devils head coach Sheldon Keefe said. “We’re expecting an update as a result of some tests that he’s had done, but we don’t have those results quite yet.”
Hughes, 23, was injured late in the third period in a 2-0 loss to the Golden Knights in Vegas on Sunday night. Hughes, the team’s leading scorer, got tied up with Vegas’ Jack Eichel and crashed head first into the boards. He skated slumped over off the ice and went immediately to the dressing room.
“Real hard to see him go down,” Keefe said the night of the game. “There’s no update. He’s going to have to be evaluated. Obviously, it didn’t look good. We’re going to have to take our time to know the full extent of it.”
The Devils had just gotten goaltender Jacob Markstrom back from an MCL sprain that kept him out for nearly six weeks.
"You never want to see a teammate go down," Markstrom said. "You just hope for the best, that's all you can do."
"That's something you never ever want to see," forward Jesper Bratt said. "I hope everything is all right."
