Posts About "Tom Fitzgerald"
Devils News & Rumors: 2020-21 Season, Taxi Squads & More
December 20th, 2020 It happened. It finally happened. On late Friday night, the NHL and NHLPA tentatively agreed to a deal for a 56-game season set to begin on Jan. 13. That means games are only a few weeks away, with training camps getting underway just when the calendar flips to 2021. The start of the new season will have plenty of...
Devils Still Have Details to Address This Offseason
October 28th, 2020 The New Jersey Devils have made notable changes to their roster this offseason. They've upgraded on offense, defense, and in net, but there's still more to work be done. General manager Tom Fitzgerald has a bit over $17 million in cap space, and he's likely to use a portion of it to make some more additions. What should he be looking...
NHL Rumors: Devils, Panthers, Maple Leafs, Key NHL Dates, More
July 9th, 2020 In today's NHL rumors rundown, the New Jersey Devils have officially made their coaching and GM announcement changes. The Florida Panthers are losing Chris Pronger and the Toronto Maple Leafs are one of five teams listed by the Hockey news as franchises that will be heavily affected by a flat salary cap. What's their plan? Finally,...
Devils Hire Ruff as Head Coach
July 8th, 2020 The New Jersey Devils have hired Lindy Ruff as their new head coach, as per NHL.com's Kevin Weekes. https://twitter.com/KevinWeekes/status/1280990513525596161 Ruff, 60, has served as an assistant coach with the New York Rangers since the 2017-18 season. He will cross the Hudson River to take on his first head coaching gig since...
Devils Could Use More Puck-Moving Blueliners
June 12th, 2020 The New Jersey Devils' top priority this offseason must be improving their defense. They were one of the worst defensive teams in the league in 2019-20, and their problems only got worse as the season carried on. It's something interim general manager Tom Fitzgerald spoke about yesterday in a media availability with reporters, as...
Top Priorities for Devils This 2020 Offseason
June 6th, 2020 It’s back to the drawing board for the New Jersey Devils. One year after they put together an offseason for the ages only to fall well short of expectations by missing the playoffs, their mandate is crystal clear. They just need to get better. Here are the ways the Devils can, in terms of what their top priorities should be this...
Devils Need to Officially Hand the Keys to Fitzgerald
March 18th, 2020 The 2019-20 NHL season continues to be one full of surprises for New Jersey Devils fans. Not to trivialize a pandemic illness, but purely from the context of its impact on the NHL season, the COVID-19 outbreak is the latest in a series of curveballs that have been thrown at fans in New Jersey this season. The Devils, though, have...
Devils Need to Remove Fitzgerald’s Interim GM Tag
February 27th, 2020 The time has come. In what has been a disaster of a season (again) for the New Jersey Devils, they need to start becoming a stable NHL franchise again, and that starts with removing the ‘interim’ tag from Tom Fitzgerald’s job title. Name him the team’s next General Manager. You’ve already given him enough power and...
Devils' Fitzgerald Gets Retool off to a Strong Start
February 17th, 2020 The New Jersey Devils wasted no time getting the trade market flowing on Sunday afternoon. It started with them sending defenseman Andy Greene to the New York Islanders for a 2021 second-round pick and prospect David Quenneville. They followed that up a few hours later by trading Blake Coleman to the Tampa Bay...
5 Candidates Who Could Replace Devils' Shero
January 17th, 2020 It was nothing short of shocking when the New Jersey Devils announced Ray Shero was no longer their general manager on Sunday evening. While he did good things for the team, they're no closer to being a playoff team five years after he took over for Lou Lamoriello. And that was enough for Josh Harris and the rest of ownership...
Ray Shero Is out as New Jersey Devils' General Manager
January 12th, 2020 NEWARK, N.J. — Ray Shero has been fired as the New Jersey Devils' general manager after a four-plus year tenure that saw the three-time Stanley Cup champions make the playoffs only once. Owner Josh Harris announced the change less than 90 minutes before the struggling Devils were to face the Tampa Bay Lightning at the Prudential...
5 Options To Replace Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli
March 21st, 2018 The pitchforks and torches are out. It's easy to question the abilities of Edmonton Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli. Fans are upset with his asset management and misappropriation of funds under the salary cap. Then there are the trades that have blown up in the Oilers' face. Say the names Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, or Griffin...
Vets Talk Expansion Struggles, Vegas Listens
January 25th, 2017 Las Vegas is often referred to as a "non-traditional" hockey market. It's probably time to retire that phrase. The NHL has made it clear in the last 30 years that it's unafraid to enter these markets via expansion, while more traditional markets (looking at you, Quebec) suffer. Whether or not that's a good thing is certainly a matter of...
