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26 Mar '24 // NJ vs. TOR ↳ 6-3 win

"We didn't play very well, and they were- actually, we played okay. They just came out, you know- they were on fire early, so. We were lucky to have a 2-1 lead. Jake had a really good period, and then we kind of found our game as the game went on."

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Would you ever like go off the rails and fully share your thoughts on characterizing jack hughes?

ah i love the way you phrased this bc it would take me going fully off the rails to write out my full characterization for jack. it's too nuanced. too complicated. too many moving parts. i don't even have it fully fleshed out yet (which is why i don't write a lot of him despite the fact that he's might be my most fave) but i will try to give you the broad-strokes and not get lost in the weeds.

the main reason it's so hard is bc jack's a liar. he lies to himself. and he lies to us. and he lies to the media. so i could pull up a whole list of contradictory things jack has said (sometimes in the same interview!) and it would just make everything so much harder. so then we have to go to a different question... which is why does jack lie?

I have a few answers for that:

he wants to be a good person/the person his parents raised him to be: what i mean by this is jack wants to be the guy who doesn't care if articles are calling him a bust his whole rookie year. he wants to be the guy who is happy his bff got an NHL cover before him. he wants to be the guy who doesn't take the spotlight away from his youngest brother on his own draft night. he wants to be all those things but he struggles with it. so you get contradictory things like him saying he hated his rookie year but also he was totally fine with it/never wavered in confidence. saying he regrets how he acted on luke's draft night. stuff like that. he tries really hard to be a good brother/teammate/friend/son/hockey player but when he isn't, instead of maybe doing self-reflection and growing from that experience he kinda just denies it ever happened.

he wants to be a hockey star but also he's scared of it bc it's out of his comfort zone: what i mean by star is like the celeb aspect. the trevor zegras aspect. so i think that's why jack has a kinda weird relationship w the media. like he does all the same interviews trevor is doing, goes on the podcast tour, is much more willing than the average hockey player to chat to the media. but he never seems quite comfortable in that role either? and we know he was really nervous about his interview with emily kaplanen. it's not the easiest thing in the world for him putting himself out there so like... he struggles in those settings sometimes. but he still does it bc he thinks being this "star" is part of who he should be. basically jack doesn't think he should struggle there if he is going to be the best version of jack!

he's a tad self-absorbed and doesn't reflect on other people's feelings: i don't think jack is as self-absorbed in a harmful way as people paint him out to be. i don't think he's mean or cruel. i think he just views the world through his own lens 99% of the time. and he finds it hard to get into the mindset of friends/brothers/teammates who have had a harder time then him. and so he's perhaps careless w people's emotions unintentionally. and because he's not great at self-reflection and admitting mistakes he rarely owns up to that fact. (look at how jack talks about michigan goals for one)

ummm that's broad-strokes. other random thoughts:

i compare him to trevor a lot above. they are very comparable in my mind. i think the strongest difference bn the 2 is that trevor is both much more intentional in what he reveals about himself to others (and plays the media game smarter) trevor is also aware that a little bit of harmless vulnerability goes a long way. for example, when talking about his all-star trick shot, trevor has no problem saying: "i was extremely crazily nervous. i basically blacked-out for ten minutes. i was freaking out." i think jack would feel all those same emotions if he was in trevor's but he could never admit it w the amount of confidence trevor does. bc jack doesn't believe he SHOULD be getting nervous in those spots.

relationship w brothers. i'll need to see more of him and luke but i think i honestly believe them when they say him & quinn don't compare stats or anything and are very happy for each other. now maybe this was something that was easier for jack most of his life bc he was considered the best of the 3, but i think even in their rookie year it was mostly true.

BUT i also think that the reason jack hates when the media compares him to quinn or trevor or whoever is bc it brings out the worst version of himself. it's easy to shut out himself from the narrative and just be happy for his buddy but when someone else drags him into it and says "but what about jack?" he starts thinking those thoughts he doesn't want to think. so he's just like "no comparisons allowed!"

Anyway in short jack wants to be just all-around GOOD. just good at life. and he tries to play the role all the time and he hates admitting weakness and hates it when he comes off mean/petty and generally wants to be well-liked. and for the most part, i think he's successful at that goal. i really do.

sorry for the incoherence.

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9.13.24 Rookie Face-Off | SMITH

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mack wins it in OT | SJS vs DET 11.18.24

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Jack last night!

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living for the Bose content! Ja’Marr being his best friend in the NFL definitely didn’t know that, joey.🥹

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will + mack in the OT celly | 11.18.24

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Oliver Stark as Evan "Buck" Buckley 9-1-1, S08E07 - Hotshots

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Uncle Buck and Jee 🥹❤️

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11-16-21: NJ Asks The Players Favorite Video Game

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They were in a Mexican restaurant 🤤

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Pope: *Is carrying all the groceries*

JJ: *Holds out hand to help*

Pope: *aggressively moves all groceries to one hand to hold JJ’s hand*

JJ: that’s not what I meant but ok

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njd@fla | 14.11.24

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pretty boy in the sin bin

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[...] I look at Jack, the way he looks at Nico, he just looks at him like a big brother that he just idolizes and that's something special that we have going on, we're very lucky to have those two in our organization leading us up front.

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do you know anything about any of those rubber bracelets Jack wears? like their origin or if any of them have some special significance? I see them on him all the time (locker room videos, at the f1 event last summer, etc) thanks again for all your historian work 🫡🫡

yes, actually!

the orange one is for a kid named brady who is a cancer survivor that he's been wearing since may 2022

the yellow/black one could be multiple things (im assuming suicide prevention based) he started wearing last yearish

and the grey/white one has a suicide hotline number on it

the red one he's been wearing since HS but ive never been able tell what it says. and the greyish one i think he started wearing sometime in mid 2020. it used to be whiter LOL

the blue one seems to not be constant or it’s just always hidden by the others but i don’t think that one has anything on it, it looks like it’s got a twisty design. luke has a matching one.

first sighting is this pic from feb 2023 asg.

if anyone knows anything else pls feel free to add on!