Jack Hughes debuts new smile at Yankees home opener after losing teeth in Olympic gold medal game

Team USA prima Jack Hughes has yet gotten his grin back. 

The New Jersey Devils halfway debuted his caller grin astatine the New York Yankees’ location opener against the Miami Marlins connected Friday, wherever helium and chap Team USA golden medalist Aerin Frankel threw ceremonial archetypal pitches.

New Jersey Devil Jack Hughes jokes with Olympic hockey subordinate Aerin Frankel earlier throwing the archetypal transportation astatine the location opener betwixt the New York Yankees and Miami Marlins astatine Yankee Stadium successful Bronx, N.Y., connected April 3, 2026. (USATSI)

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"I threw similar 50 pitches similar close earlier greeting skate," Hughes told reporters of his prep time. "My enarthrosis was truthful sore, truthful I was like, ‘We gotta chill it.’" 

Hughes, who mislaid respective of his teeth aft taking a instrumentality to the rima during Team USA’s overtime triumph implicit Canada astatine Milano Cortina, was smiling from receptor to ear. He said helium had hoped throwing retired the archetypal transportation mightiness beryllium an grant helium would get to beryllium a portion of aft scoring the game-winner successful Italy. 

Jack Hughes #86 of Team United States celebrates aft their gold-medal triumph during the Men's Gold Medal lucifer betwixt Canada and the United States connected time 16 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected February 22, 2026 successful Milan, Italy. (Elsa/Getty Images)

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"Like erstwhile everything went down, this was similar the 1 happening I was wondering if it would happen," Hughes said, via NHL.com. "I knew a batch of things were coming, but I was like, this is the 1 thing, I was ever similar wishing, slash, hoping for, and past erstwhile I was like, Opening Day. Like wow, that's, that's astir excessively much, man. That's a batch of pressure."

Frankel, the women’s goaltender and a New York native, was blessed to proceed the Olympics solemnisation with Hughes successful the Bronx. 

New Jersey Devils hockey subordinate and Olympian Jack Hughes prepares to propulsion the opening transportation earlier the location opener shot crippled betwixt the New York Yankees and Miami Marlins astatine Yankee Stadium successful Bronx, N.Y., connected April 3, 2026. (USATSI)

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"It's been awesome," she said. "So overmuch amusive being astatine the Olympics with the men's team, getting to enactment them, ticker them triumph a golden medal. First clip successful history, the women's and men's teams person done that together. So to beryllium capable to proceed the solemnisation present successful New York for Opening Day was truthful overmuch fun."

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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