Fansided · Yesterday
Luke Hughes immediately gets payback on Matthew Schaefer with game-saving overtime play
The New Jersey Devils are clearly not the team they were last season. They do not win the game that the Devils on against the New York Islanders on Saturday night, and Luke Hughes does not make the plays he makes to win the game.
Hughes was a fraction of the player he has been this year. He’s been a legit number-one defenseman.
Coming into last season, there were many people comparing Hughes to Matthew Schaefer. The reigning number-one overall pick was dominant while Hughes had a slow start after a contract negotiation that took all of training camp to finalize. Hughes then suffered multiple injuries, and the comparison was not even worth the conversation.