Evaluating and Re-Litigating the New Jersey Devils Re-Build So Far The New Jersey Devils have entered a re-building phase since May 2015. Since then, the Devils have changed a lot but their re-build has yielded little. They are now in their sixth season of re-building and about to have their fifth season of missing the playoffs. This long post evaluates and re-litigates the re-build so far. Share this story Photo by Andy Marlin/NHLI via Getty Images The New Jersey Devils have been re-building since 2015. This was apparent when Lou was no longer General Manager in after the 2014-15 season and outright left the organization that Summer. GM Ray Shero was given the task to tear it down and build up a team that could compete in the long term. Shero was fired in January 2020 and was formally replaced later that year by his assistant GM Tom Fitzgerald. The team is all but set to not make the playoffs for a third straight season and for the ninth time since the 2010-11 season. More recently, the Devils are winless in their last 11 games at home and are only better than Buffalo in the East, who has an argument with Arizona right now as the worst-run organization in the NHL. Clearly, the Devils’ re-build has yet to yield the results one would have hoped for back in 2015.