Luke Hughes, a rookie for the New Jersey Devils, scored an impressive end-to-end game-tying goal, drawing comparisons to Hall-of-Fame defensemen Brian Leetch and Paul Coffey by head coach Lindy Ruff. Despite not watching Scott Niedermayer highlights growing up, Hughes displayed a game-saving goal, earning praise for his performance.
By his own admission, Luke Hughes didn’t watch Scott Niedermayer highlights growing up. That didn’t stop him from looking like him with his game-saving goal last night. #NJDevils https://t.co/egWRVY99PC
Lindy Ruff Compares Devils Rookie Luke Hughes to Hall-of-Fame Defensemen From #PHWA member @JamesNicholsNHL https://t.co/MOwg4dyF1u
#NJDevils head coach Lindy Ruff compares rookie Luke Hughes to two Hall-of-Fame defensemen after his dazzling goal on Wednesday. Neither was Scott Niedermayer. More⤵️ https://t.co/x4hpUlVBCD
Luke Hughes was just super casual about his insane end-to-end, game-tying goal. "Dawson had a big goal to tie it up and then we let one go in and at that point, you just think on the bench what can you do to tie it up and help out." #NJDevils https://t.co/I7DrZnaAvl
Lindy Ruff, asked who it reminded him of when he saw Luke Hughes go end-to-end for the 3-3 game tying goal, Ruff said it is like the skating of players like Brian Leetch and Paul Coffey. #NJDevils