Jack Hughes named star defender for USA and Canada

In the second and final round of 4 Nations roster reveals, Team USA announced that New Jersey Devils superstar Jack Hughes has been named to the roster. However, star defenseman Dougie Hamilton was excluded from Team Canada.

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In the initial roster releases, where each country named its first six players, no Devils were named for any of the four teams.

For Team USA, the first six players named over the summer were defensemen Adam Fox, Quinn Hughes and Charlie McAvoy and forwards Jack Eichel, Auston Matthews and Matthew Tkachuk.

Team Canada announced its first six players are defenseman Cale Makar and forwards Sidney Crosby, Nathan Mackinnon, Brad Marchand, Connor McDavid and Brayden Point.

Now Jack Hughes joins the USA’s star-studded squad.

Hughes joins his brother Quinn and plays on the same team as the eldest Hughes brother for the first time in their professional careers.

So far in the 2024-25 season, Hughes has collected nine goals and 21 assists in 27 games. The Devils forward has scored more than a point per game in each of the last three seasons. In the 2022-23 season, Hughes scored a career-high 99 points (43g, 56a), breaking the Devils’ franchise record for points in a single season, previously held by Patrik Elias (96).

The fact that Hamilton was left off Canada’s roster is somewhat surprising. However, considering he missed most of the 2023-24 season due to injury and only really started to improve his game in the last few games, one can somewhat understand his omission.

In 28 games this season, Hamilton has five goals and 21 points.

Canada named Cale Makar, Devon Toews, Alex Pietrangelo, Colton Parayko, Josh Morrissey, Shea Theodore and Travis Sanheim among its seven defensemen.

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