{"id":611789,"date":"2026-04-17T00:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:04:10","slug":"devils-hire-ex-panthers-exec-sunny-mehta-as-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611789\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils hire ex-Panthers exec Sunny Mehta as general manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 16, 2026, 07:47 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>NEWARK, N.J. &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"beb0cb35-4d9f-a5e8-9e7b-d5ca97e51d93\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/nj\/new-jersey-devils\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> have hired Sunny Mehta as their general manager.<\/p>\n<p>Owner David Blitzer announced the hire Thursday night, less than 48 hours after the team&#8217;s regular season ended without a playoff appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/48475221\/nhl-2026-offseason-schedule-keys-draft-picks-trades-free-agency-cap-space\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r1643014_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mehta was an assistant GM when the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"195561c3-b7d9-935e-0623-8f0a00357080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/fla\/florida-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> won the Stanley Cup back to back each of the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Mehta returns to New Jersey, where he served as director of hockey analytics from 2014 to 2018. He spent time with Washington before going to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The Devils fired longtime GM Tom Fitzgerald late in the season. The future of coach Sheldon Keefe is not clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 16, 2026, 07:47 PM ET NEWARK, N.J. &#8212; The New Jersey Devils have hired Sunny Mehta as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-611789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}