When he woke up in Italy on Sunday, United States center Jack Hughes was just a New Jersey Devil. By the end of the day, his life had changed forever.
At 1:41 of overtime in a tied Olympic men’s hockey final between the Americans and Canada, Hughes fired in a goal to give the United States its first gold medal in the event since 1980 in Lake Placid, N.Y. Hughes’s clutch shot came four days after his brother, Quinn, scored in overtime to lift the Americans past Sweden in the quarterfinals.
