{"id":547467,"date":"2026-04-08T13:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547467\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:59:16","slug":"where-chris-drury-stands-with-rangers-after-wave-of-cutthroat-moves-around-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547467\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Chris Drury stands with Rangers after wave of cutthroat moves around NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both of the Rangers\u2019 two closest neighbors made cutthroat decisions in the last handful of days.<\/p>\n<p>The Devils <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/06\/sports\/devils-move-on-from-gm-tom-fitzgerald-after-six-seasons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ousted president and general manager Tom Fitzgerald<\/a> on Monday following a six-year tenure that produced only two brief playoff appearances. It wasn\u2019t surprising given the potential of New Jersey\u2019s roster and the reality of their season, but the move came swiftly regardless of time and place.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the day of the firing, the Devils were still mathematically eligible for the playoffs \u2014 albeit needing a miracle to actually happen \u2014 with five games left in the season.<\/p>\n<p>But much work needs to be done on the Devils roster this upcoming offseason. This allows the organization to throw its hat in the hockey operations ring alongside the Maple Leafs and Predators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both of the Rangers\u2019 two closest neighbors made cutthroat decisions in the last handful of days. The Devils&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[337,5,2540,2310,35,4,2541,43,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-547467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-chris-drury","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-inside-the-rangers","11":"tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","12":"tag-new-york-rangers","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116369448374691627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}