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 Center on Sunday.Speaking at a hastily called news conference outside the locker room, Harris said assistant general manager Tom Fitzgerald would handle Shero's duties with the help of Devils goaltending great Martin Brodeur.
The change comes a little more than a month after Shero fired head coach John Hynes in the wake of a horrible start to the season and the trade of 2017-18 NHL MVP Taylor Hall to Arizona shortly after the Hynes firing. In addition, Shero traded for one-time Norris Trophy winner P.K. Subban, signed Wayne Simmonds as a free agent and acquired the rights to Nikita Gusev, who had been playing in the KHL in Russia.
"We don't do these things lightly. We take a long-term approach," Harris said of his tenure with Shero. "But the reality is we are now in our fifth season and we've made the playoffs once. It was just time for a change."
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