Ice hockey runs within the Olympic gold medalist’s household.
His father, Jim Hughes, is a former ice hockey participant and NHL assistant coach. In the meantime, his mom, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, performed collegiately on the College of New Hampshire and received a silver medal on the 1992 Girls’s World Championship.
Jack’s brothers, Quinn and Luke Hughes, are additionally skilled ice hockey gamers.
“Hockey was in my blood. I feel I used to be born to be a hockey participant. I spent so many hours skating and taking part in mini-sticks, I feel it was simply meant to be,” Jack mentioned in an interview.
In the meantime, the matriarch shared the siblings’ skating skills.
“We have been all the time huge proponents of two fingers on the stick, in order that they’re pushing with their decrease physique following their stick, and their shoulders have been in the fitting route once they have been turning,” Ellen advised NHL.com. “They wore safety in order that all the pieces may very well be carried out at full velocity. That is what obtained them to belief their stability in getting the load from one leg to the opposite with out worrying about getting harm.”
Jack’s uncle Marty performed hockey for Boston School for 4 seasons from 1997 to 2001, successful an NCAA championship throughout his final yr. His cousin Ted Doherty, who served as captain throughout his senior yr, skated 4 seasons at Boston School from 2012 to 2016.