{"id":556318,"date":"2026-04-19T22:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:03:06","slug":"news-12-new-jersey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556318\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New Jersey Devils have named former Florida Panthers executive Sunny Mehta as the team\u2019s newest general manager.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The announcement was made Thursday evening and comes less than two weeks after the team parted ways with its previous general manager, Tom Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mehta joined the Panthers\u2019 organization in 2020 and has served as assistant general manager and head of analytics for the last three years.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/newjersey.news12.com\/new-jersey-devils-part-ways-with-general-manager-tom-fitzgerald-after-5-plus-seasons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils part ways with general manager Tom Fitzgerald after 5-plus seasons<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to welcome Sunny and his wife, Nicole, back home to New Jersey,\u201d Devils\u2019 managing partner David Blitzer wrote in a statement. \u201cSunny\u2019s familiarity with our organization and experience with a two-time Stanley Cup-winning team are characteristics that will serve as a foundation for future success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mehta, 48, was raised in Wyckoff and said he grew up watching Devils\u2019 practices in Totowa.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He previously served as the director of hockey analytics for the Devils from 2014 to 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Jersey Devils have named former Florida Panthers executive Sunny Mehta as the team\u2019s newest general manager.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[62,57,5141,5,4,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-556318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-panthers","10":"tag-floridapanthers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116433640045302998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556318","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=556318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}