{"id":680964,"date":"2026-05-20T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/680964\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:34:10","slug":"devils-announce-coaching-changes-sheldon-keefe-to-stay-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/680964\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils Announce Coaching Changes, Sheldon Keefe To Stay \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Jersey Devils announced today<\/a> that Goaltending Coach Dave Rogalski<\/a> has been relieved of his duties, and Assistant Coach Sergei Brylin<\/a> will assume a new role within the organization.<\/p>\n

With Sunny Mehta<\/a> getting to work on transforming the team, along with his new assistant Braden Birch<\/a> who was hired earlier this month<\/a>, it\u2019s the first step in what will be more changes after a disappointing campaign.<\/p>\n

Rogalski, 45, got started at St. Cloud State in 2010, eventually mentoring current Capitals netminder Charlie Lindgren<\/a>. Jumping to the NHL in 2018 with the Blues as a development coach, his organization took home the Stanley Cup the next year. Moving along to goaltending coach with the Devils for the 2020-21 season, he held the role ever since. Somewhat synonymous with the team as a whole, New Jersey has declined in that department, most visibly with Jacob\u00a0Markstr\u00f6m<\/a>\u2018s 3.07 goals-against-average and his .883 save percentage, both his worst marks in a decade. Jake Allen<\/a>, with ties to Rogalski since St. Louis, performed better but also experienced slight statistical declines year-over-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Brylin is much deeper connected within the team, playing 765 games as a Devil from 1994-2008. The Russian center helped New Jersey take home three Stanley Cups as a relentless two-way player who epitomized the Devils in that era. Upon retiring from the KHL, he promptly returned to the franchise, starting out with the AHL\u2019s Albany Devils in 2012 and being promoted to assistant coach for the big club a decade later as part of Lindy Ruff<\/a>\u2018s staff. Surviving the split and transition to Sheldon Keefe<\/a>\u2018s tenure, Brylin was more involved with player development, not directly heading either of their special teams units.<\/p>\n

A legend of the team, Mehta is showing loyalty and acknowledgement of his presence in the organization, keeping Brylin around in a new role which is not known at this point. James Nichols of New Jersey Hockey Now confirmed that<\/a> the former player won\u2019t retain any sort of coaching capacity.<\/p>\n

With the departures aside, today\u2019s news confirms that Keefe will stick around with two years remaining on his contract. Eager to assemble his own staff, it\u2019s unfair to judge the 45-year-old for his shortcomings after a season so lost to injury, however, it\u2019ll be interesting to see what sort of leash he has if things don\u2019t turn around quickly next fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Jersey Devils announced today that Goaltending Coach Dave Rogalski has been relieved of his duties, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,749,220129,82],"class_list":["post-680964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-sheldon-keefe","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}