Devils’ Hughes on virus list after break

New Jersey Devils center Jack Hughes was placed on the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol list after participating in the league’s All-Star Game festivities in Las Vegas.

The Devils announced the move Sunday.

Hughes, 20, has 12 goals and 15 assists in 28 games this season. He was selected by New Jersey with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 draft.

The Devils’ next game is Monday night at Ottawa.

The Senators are 8-11-3 in conference games. Ottawa averages 10.2 penalty minutes per game, the sixth most in the NHL. Brady Tkachuk leads the team serving 66 total minutes.

The Devils are 11-14-3 in Eastern Conference play. New Jersey has scored 125 goals and ranks 10th in the

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Eastern Conference averaging 2.8 goals per game. Jesper Bratt leads the team with 14.

Blackhawks

Chicago interviewed former NHL forward Scott Mellanby for their general manager job.

Mellanby, 55, had 364 goals and 476 assists in 1,431 regular-season games over 21 years in the NHL. He was the assistant general manager for the Montreal Canadiens from 2014 until he resigned in November.

Chicago also has announced completed interviews with interim GM Kyle Davidson and Eric Tulsky, the assistant GM for the Carolina Hurricanes.

Davidson was elevated to the interim job after longtime general manager Stan

Bowman resigned in October in the wake of a report by an outside law firm that found the organization mishandled allegations that an assistant coach sexually assaulted a player during the team’s Stanley Cup run in 2010.

The report also played a role in the departure of Al MacIsaac, another of Chicago’s top hockey executives, and the NHL fined the team $2 million for “the organization’s inadequate internal procedures and insufficient and untimely response.”

Former Blackhawks forwards Eddie Olczyk, Marian Hossa and Patrick Sharp are helping the team with its GM search, and CEO Danny Wirtz has said the organization plans to interview candidates “both inside and outside of hockey.”