New Jersey Devils: Jack Hughes Struggling To Find His Game

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.

Hughes comes to the Devils and the NHL with plenty of fanfare. Nico Hischier did not garnering nearly the same amount of interest or…