.Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterSep 12, 2024, 02:13 PM ETCloseRyan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN.New Jersey Devils defenseman Luke Hughes will definitely need in between six to eight full weeks to recuperate from a shoulder personal injury he suffered previously this month, the staff said Thursday.Hughes endured a remaining shoulder personal injury during the course of offseason instruction. After being reviewed due to the Devils' health care workers, it was established he will certainly not demand surgical procedure and that it might take more than six weeks for him to recover.That timeline suggests Hughes would overlook the Devils' seven preseason games and their season-opening activities on Oct. 4 and Oct. 5 versus the Buffalo Sabres in Prague, Czechia. The earliest he can return would be the week of Oct. twenty, which indicates the Devils will have already played eight regular-season games.Losing Hughes for even a brief period comes after he used his rookie project to improve why he's thought about some of the activity's brightest young celebrities. Hughes ended up last season with 6 objectives and also 47 factors while likewise being one of five Adversaries to play in each 82 games.What Hughes performed as a novice led to him ending up 3rd in Calder Prize voting responsible for the eventual victor, Chicago Blackhawks facility Connor Bedard, and also Minnesota Wild defenseman Brock Faber.Hughes and Faber were the only rookie defensemen that played all 82 video games last period. They were additionally matched for second amongst rookies in factors with Bedard leading the organization's first-year players along with 61 points.Once Hughes is actually removed to come back, he's assumed to become an essential aspect of the Devils' plannings to go back to the playoffs. Hughes, who was the fourth pick of the 2021 NHL Draft, spent pair of years creating at the University of Michigan, which likewise created his bro Quinn Hughes, the Vancouver Canucks leader that is actually likewise the ruling Norris Trophy champion for the NHL's absolute best defenseman.Hughes left Michigan after two periods and authorized his entry-level contract with the Devils. It permitted him to join his bro and also Adversaries alternating captain, Port, for the staff's playoff run throughout the 2023 Stanley Mug playoffs.The Devils won 52 activities in the course of the 2022-23 period and also evolved to the playoffs for the very first time in four periods. They opened up with a first-round victory over the rivalrous The big apple Rangers in seven video games before losing in the second around against the Carolina Hurricanes.Last time viewed the Devils battle to find consistency as well as skip the playoffs. It caused all of them parting techniques with crown instructor Lindy Ruff and also employing interim instructor Travis Veggie prior to they at that point tapped the services of previous Toronto Walnut Leafs trainer Sheldon Keefe in old Might.