Overview
- The New Jersey Devils announced Tuesday that goaltending coach Dave Rogalski was relieved of his duties and assistant coach Sergei Brylin will be reassigned to a non-coaching role inside the organization.
- New general manager Sunny Mehta has retained head coach Sheldon Keefe, who has two years remaining on his contract, while beginning searches to fill the vacated goaltending coach post and Brylin’s previous responsibilities.
- The move targets a clear weak spot: under Rogalski’s six-season run the Devils posted one of the NHL’s worst aggregate save percentages (.891) and Jacob Markström posted career-worst goaltending numbers in 2025-26.
- Media outlets have named possible goaltending-coach candidates such as Leo Luongo, Hannu Toivonen and Curtis Sanford while the club conducts a formal hiring search.
- Mehta’s actions follow his mid-April hiring and earlier front-office cuts, and they signal a data-driven rebuild that will shape offseason work on the draft, free agency, salary-cap planning and goalie development.