{"id":548895,"date":"2026-04-09T17:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548895\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:39:14","slug":"maple-leafs-devils-granted-permission-to-talk-to-panthers-assistant-gm-sunny-mehta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548895\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs, Devils granted permission to talk to Panthers assistant GM Sunny Mehta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Leafs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/new-jersey-devils\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-jersey-devils\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> have been granted permission to talk to Florida Panthers assistant GM and head of analytics Sunny Mehta, Sportsnet confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mehta, 47, has been part of the Panthers&#8217; front office for both of their Stanley Cup wins the past two years after being hired in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Mehta is highly regarded for his work with analytics.<\/p>\n<p>He studied music at the University of Miami, then made a living playing guitar in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Mehta served as a trader at Peak6 Capital Management at the Chicago Board of Trade and got his master\u2019s degree in data science from City University of New York.<\/p>\n<p>His also thrived as a poker player, and he co-authored two books on the subject:\u00a0Professional No-Limit Hold &#8216;Em: Volume One\u00a0(2007) and\u00a0Small Stakes No-Limit Hold &#8216;Em\u00a0(2009).<\/p>\n<p>Mehta headed up the NHL&#8217;s first full-time analytics department with the Devils from 2014 to 2018.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the Devils, Mehta consulted for the Washington Capitals in the 2019-20 season. He also worked for the Arizona Coyotes in 2010-11, as well as for six Major League Baseball teams through a partnership with Zelus Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs fired GM Brad Treliving earlier this month, while the Devils parted ways with GM Tom Fitzgerald earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leafs and New Jersey Devils have been granted permission to talk to Florida Panthers assistant GM and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-548895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-maple-leafs","10":"tag-mapleleafs","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","14":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116375975580435106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548895","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=548895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}