File: Devils to Hire Lindy Ruff as HC, Assume away Meantime Mark for GM Fitzgerald
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The Original Jersey Devils reportedly stumbled on their contemporary head coach.
Per Kevin Weekes of NHL.com, the Devils will name Lindy Ruff as their head coach and desire the interim impress from identical old manager Tom Fitzgerald’s title.
This comes after Original Jersey fired John Hynes and named Alain Nasreddine as the interim head coach in December.
Hynes was the pinnacle coach of the Devils due to the the 2015-16 campaign and accomplished with a 150-159-45 total document. They made the playoffs once at some level of his tenure, losing in the first spherical in the 2017-18 season, and had been appropriate 9-13-4 in 2019-20 when he was fired.
Original Jersey accomplished the scorching campaign with a 28-41-12 document, which was the worst mark in the Metropolitan Division and no longer upright adequate to assemble an invite to the league’s restart concept.
The Devils, who have not received a playoff series since they reached the Stanley Cup Ideal in 2012, can have a utilized in Ruff leading the manner as they sight to flip things around. Ruff performed from 1979-80 thru 1990-91 for the Buffalo Sabres and Original York Rangers and has even extra experience as a head coach.
In 15 seasons as the pinnacle coach of the Sabres, Ruff accomplished with a 571-432-78-84 document and eight playoff appearances. He helped make them the Stanley Cup Ideal in 1999, when they misplaced to the Dallas Stars.
Ruff also has experience with the Stars, serving as their head coach for four seasons earlier than they fired him in 2013.
He was 165-122-41 in Dallas and was most honest right this moment an assistant coach with the Original York Rangers.
As for Fitzgerald, he has been the interim identical old manager due to the the Devils and Ray Shero agreed to share ways in January.