Prospect Info: Luke Hughes - part IV (final)

[NJDevs26]

Will they play him or won't they play him? Still a prospect but this should be the last prospect thread Luke needs.

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[My3Sons]

Will they play him or won't they play him? Still a prospect but this should be the last prospect thread Luke needs.

He’s Schroedinger’s Hughes?

 

[Guttersniped]

Never posted the photos for the Washington game in the GDT so here’s the Luke pictures.

Spoiler: Lukey Boy in Action

Spoiler: That Goal Tho

Lol

 

[Blender]

To play or not to play, that is the question.

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

If it were up to me, I'd play him, but I just don't see them doing it.

 

[NJ07102]

There is just no room for him at this point. But he is just an injury away from a spot. Or if somebody totally f***s up and plays a couple of horrific games in a row.

 

[Xirik]

Final Luke Hughes prospect thread?

 

[The Wumpus]

To play or not to play, that is the question.

Or to take arms against a basket of pressbox tendies
And by eating, end them

 

[Hockey Sports Fan]

There is just no room for him at this point. But he is just an injury away from a spot. Or if somebody totally f***s up and plays a couple of horrific games in a row.

Yeah as much as i think he had as good debut as you could hope, who do you sit? Graves is the easy answer (for me, Bahl’s outplaying him IMO) but no way you scratch your second pairing LD that just helped you put together the winningest Devils season of all time because Luke Hughes had one good game against a depleted Capitals team with nothing to play for.

If we make it out of round 1, i think he definitely ends up playing at some point.

 

[NJDevs26]

Graves is actually the last answer tbh. I could see Siegs (who's been scratched on and off recently as his game has declined) or Bahl - who's basically a rookie himself - get scratched before Graves on the LH side. The RH defenders seem pretty safe in Dougie, Marino and Severson.

 

[MasterofGrond]

Graves won’t get benched, just not gonna happen.

Should be on the table though, he’s actually what some of y’all think Severson is (mediocre offensive defenseman with extremely regular gaffes).

 

[Hockey Sports Fan]

I don’t think Graves will get benched, it’s just who *I* would bench.

 

[Jason MacIsaac]

Luke Hughes will be used if NJ needs a spark, he won't start the series.

 

[Hisch13r]

If it were up to me, I'd play him, but I just don't see them doing it.

Wouldn’t even be a hard decision for me.

Luke Hughes will be used if NJ needs a spark, he won't start the series.

It’s always smart to wait to use better players until you drop into a hole

 

[NJDevs26]

Hughes may be a better talent, but two games against non playoff teams isn’t enough evidence to say ‘definitively’ he’s a better player than guys who helped us set an all time win record.

 

[Blackjack]

Hughes may be a better talent, but two games against non playoff teams isn’t enough evidence to say ‘definitively’ he’s a better player than guys who helped us set an all time win record.

“Helped” is doing a lot of work here. We have 2 years of track record at Michigan, and numerous other top drafted d come in at the end of their d+2.

 

[Hisch13r]

Diving Deep Into Every Luke Hughes Shift in His First Two NHL Games

I take a look, with video, at every shift from 19-year-old Luke Hughes in his first two career NHL games.

samnestler.substack.com

 

[Guttersniped]

I don’t get the complaints about not using him right away.

For one thing Jack is going to bouncing off of the walls, they should get him over the playoff debut game jitters first.

And seeing what we have to work with before adding him seems reasonable too.

It’s not necessarily put him in game one vs wait until the team’s back is against the wall and faces elimination.

I don’t know what’s going to happen, but to preemptively decide the team will make a terrible choice before it even happened is goofy.

If you watched the interviews after Luke’s games, Ruff was visibly excited over the kid, he wants to get him in there. He saw a player who can skate circles around most NHL players, he’s not blind to what he has in Luke.

That doesn’t mean he plays in game one either.

 

[Clam Jensen]

I don’t get the complaints about not using him right away.

For one thing Jack is going to bouncing off of the walls, they should get him over the playoff debut game jitters first.

And seeing what we have to work with before adding him seems reasonable too.

It’s not necessarily put him in game one vs wait until the team’s back is against the wall and faces elimination.

I don’t know what’s going to happen, but to preemptively decide the team will make a terrible choice before it even happened is goofy.

If you watched the interviews after Luke’s games, Ruff was visibly excited over the kid, he wants to get him in there. He saw a player who can skate circles around most NHL players, he’s not blind to what he has in Luke.

That doesn’t mean he plays in game one either.

 

[Torts]

Luke Hughes will be used if NJ needs a spark, he won't start the series.

This what I think will happen. If the team comes out flat or gets behind maybe he gets a chance to step in a change some momentum/light a spark in the team.

 

[DevilDog]

Luke Hughes will be used if NJ needs a spark, he won't start the series.

This is what I figured too. The players that got us here deserve to start. But if we get behind or Bahl plays poorly I could see Luke being inserted.

 

[Hisch13r]

Don’t you just love when a team where one of their biggest issues all year has been retrievals and clean breakouts leaving out the guy who might be the best in the org already at those things? Free him.

 

[PizzaAndPucks]

Don’t you just love when a team where one of their biggest issues all year has been retrievals and clean breakouts leaving out the guy who might be the best in the org already at those things? Free him.

Luke thrives at that but right now we are struggling with that. Our defensmen actually have been good most of the year moving the puck out our zone. That's why our counter attack was so good. It's in the offensive zone where we lack an elite skating d man. Hamilton and Severson are the only ones that really roam around the o zone but they can't walk the line like Luke can.

 

[Devs3cups]

Don’t you just love when a team where one of their biggest issues all year has been retrievals and clean breakouts leaving out the guy who might be the best in the org already at those things? Free him.

Can’t wait until he has a spot next season.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

What an atrocious job by Lindy, he 100% should've been playing against the Rags since game 1.