{"id":988,"date":"2026-02-28T20:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=988"},"modified":"2026-02-28T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:37:28","slug":"heros-welcome-in-new-jersey-when-jack-hughes-stepped-back-onto-the-ice-in-front-of-a-roaring-new-jersey-devils-crowd-the-emotion-was-impossible-to-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"HERO\u2019S WELCOME IN NEW JERSEY! When Jack Hughes stepped back onto the ice in front of a roaring New Jersey Devils crowd, the emotion was impossible to hide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>It was no secret who the fans at Prudential Center were waiting to welcome home Wednesday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The crowd was holding its breath for one particular player to show up on the ice and they didn\u2019t hold back once Jack Hughes appeared in his home arena following his historic game-winner in Milan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hughes was welcomed with a \u201cUSA\u201d chant that thundered through the arena. Fans \u2014 some clad in USA jerseys and holding homemade USA signs and American flags \u2014 gave a standing ovation before the puck drop for the Devils\u2019 first game since the Olympic break.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The jumbotron replayed the\u00a0thrilling gold-medal winning overtime goal\u00a0over Canada to give Team USA their first Olympic gold medal since the 1980 \u201cMiracle on Ice.\u201d Hughes received huge cheers as he did a lap around the ice, grabbing Team USA teammate and the Sabres\u2019 Tage Thompson, and took the mic before giving a brief speech.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m so proud and I\u2019m so happy that the men\u2019s and women\u2019s USA hockey teams brought the gold medals back,\u201d Hughes said. \u201cI\u2019m pretty emotional, but I\u2019m so proud to represent the New Jersey Devils and I\u2019m so proud to represent the great state of New Jersey. From the bottom of my heart, all of my teammates, my Team USA teammates, I just want to thank you guys.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" style=\"width:103px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf--169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/LIKCGIf-.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was no secret who the fans at Prudential Center were waiting to welcome home Wednesday night. The crowd was holding its breath for one particular player to show up on the ice and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshora.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}