With injuries seemingly consuming the NHL in the season's first five weeks, the New Jersey Devils took their biggest hit over the weekend -- and it was not even on the ice.

New Jersey Devils star Jack Hughes cut his hand while attending a team dinner last Thursday in Chicago. MORE: One image perfectly captures the World Series’ popularity in Canada Now, the restaurant at the center of what Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman (citing multiple sources) called a "fluke accident” is getting carved up.

Robert Hotchkiss, MD, performed finger surgery on Jack Hughes, a center for the New Jersey Devils at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.  Mr. Hughes is expected to return to playing in eight weeks and will be re-evaluated in six weeks,