{"id":554622,"date":"2026-04-17T15:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554622\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:36:18","slug":"sunny-mehta-is-the-right-choice-to-lead-new-jersey-devils-at-crucial-juncture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554622\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Mehta Is the Right Choice to Lead New Jersey Devils at Crucial Juncture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/devilsontherush.substack.com\/subscribe?coupon=6653595d&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;DOTR Discount: Save 30% for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devilsontherush.substack.com\/subscribe?coupon=6653595d\" class=\"button primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DOTR Discount: Save 30% for 1 year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey Devils have their man. Yesterday evening, they announced they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/devils-hire-panthers-sunny-mehta-as-general-manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hiring Florida Panthers assistant general manager Sunny Mehta<\/a> as their new general manager.<\/p>\n<p>Most of you are probably familiar with Mehta\u2019s story. He\u2019s a Wyckoff, NJ native and Ramapo High School alum and was the Devils\u2019 director of analytics from 2014-2018.<\/p>\n<p>There was plenty to connect Mehta to the job, and the Devils moved quickly to hire him. It was only last week that they announced they were <a href=\"https:\/\/devilsontherush.substack.com\/p\/change-coming-devils-move-tom-fitzgerald\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moving on from Tom Fitzgerald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mehta is walking into a relatively good situation, but there\u2019s work to do to turn this Devils team around. Fortunately, the Devils seem to have found the right man for the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOTR Discount: Save 30% for 1 year The New Jersey Devils have their man. Yesterday evening, they announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-554622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-new-jersey-devils","12":"tag-newjersey","13":"tag-newjerseydevils","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116420790430637251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554622","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=554622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}