Team USA star Jack Hughes gets another standing ovation from Penguins fans after return from Olympics

Team USA leader Jack Hughes received different lasting ovation connected Thursday, but this clip it was from the distant crowd.

When the starting lineups were being announced anterior to the Pittsburgh Penguins' 4-1 triumph implicit the New Jersey Devils astatine PPG Paints Arena, Hughes received different lasting ovation from the Pittsburgh faithful.

It was the 2nd specified acknowledgment for Hughes successful 2 days, arsenic the Devils’ location assemblage gave their superstar a batch of emotion aft his show successful the Olympics.

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New Jersey Devils halfway Jack Hughes (86) waves to the assemblage arsenic Olympic players are acknowledged anterior to the NHL crippled betwixt the Pittsburgh Penguins and the New Jersey Devils astatine PPG Paints Arena successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Feb. 26, 2026. (Jeanine Leech/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The 24-year-old rapidly became 1 of the astir fashionable American hockey players successful the NHL aft scoring the aureate extremity successful Team USA’s thrilling overtime triumph implicit Canada successful the golden medal crippled connected Sunday.

The lasting ovations from roadworthy crowds are apt to go a communal occurrence erstwhile the Devils play successful the United States, whereas successful Canada, helium mightiness apt beryllium booed at.

New Jersey Devils' Jack Hughes is honored on with different Olympic hockey players contiguous earlier an NHL hockey crippled against the Pittsburgh Penguins successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Feb. 26, 2026. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)

It’s been a chaotic week for the Devils’ star. After Team USA’s triumph successful Milan, the squad flew to Miami to observe their triumph astatine E11even, a celebrated nightclub. When their raucous solemnisation wrapped up, they flew up to Washington, D.C., to conscionable with President Donald Trump and be the State of the Union code connected Tuesday.

The Devils' archetypal crippled backmost successful enactment was connected Wednesday, a 2-1 nonaccomplishment to the Buffalo Sabres. Hughes had an assistance connected the lone extremity successful the team’s nonaccomplishment connected Wednesday, and successful the Devils’ decision connected Thursday.

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New Jersey Devils' Jack Hughes (86) is defended by Pittsburgh Penguins' Blake Lizotte (46) during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Feb. 26, 2026. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)

Hughes has played 38 games this play and scored 12 goals and registered 26 assists, averaging a constituent per game. He volition look to assistance the Devils crook things astir erstwhile they instrumentality connected the St. Louis Blues connected Saturday astatine 5 p.m. ET.

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