The New Jersey Devils’ 2-1 loss on Sunday to the Ottawa Senators was coach Sheldon Keefe’s breaking point. Amid a 2-6-3 stretch in which the Devils have scored 20 goals, Keefe has made drastic changes to his lines leading into their game against the Boston Bruins on Wednesday.
New Jersey Devils head coach Sheldon Keefe shares his reasoning for putting Nathan Bastian with Jack Hughes and Ondrej Palat.
Devils coach Sheldon Keefe’s message to his team after one of their best periods of the season was to keep up their pressure, but not get too overconfident since they still had not scored and the game wasn’t over. What he didn’t tell them was that he had a feeling Sunday’s game wouldn’t end well. His fears came true 40 minutes later.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are slightly more than halfway done with the 2024-25 regular season and find themselves with the best record in the Atlantic Division (30-16-2 for a .646 point percentage).
The New Jersey Devils are a Stanley Cup contender once again in 2024-25. Sheldon Keefe has made an impact in his first season as head coach. For instance, Jack Hughes and Jesper Bratt have become dominant forces in this league.
Devils head coach Sheldon Keefe opened up about his return to Toronto for the first time since being fired by the Maple Leafs.
Editor’s note: This interview was originally published on Dec. 10. On Thursday, Sheldon Keefe will coach in Toronto for the first time since joining the New Jersey Devils. NEWARK, N.J. — The slogan that lines the dressing room wall of Sheldon Keefe’s New Jersey Devils team reads: Compete. Commit. Connect.
Sheldon Keefe was back into his routine. The 44-year-old head coach left his house in Oakville, an area that sits west of Toronto. He drove down the QEW, Queen Elizabeth Way, fighting through traffic,
NEWARK—Things are getting stale in Newark. The New Jersey Devils have now dropped four games in a row and five of their last six contests. Although they’ve done a decent job of collecting loser points along the way,
TORONTO -- Sheldon Keefe coached 172 regular-season games at Scotiabank Arena when he was with the Toronto Maple Leafs from 2019-24. So to say his trip to the arena on Thursday was familiar, right down to the traffic, is fair.
Like the rest of us, New Jersey Devils head coach Sheldon Keefe is actively trying to achieve a healthy work-life balance. In addition to the title of head coach of an NHL team, he is a husband to his wife, Jackie, and father to two sons, Wyatt and Landon.
As the former Maple Leafs coach returns to Scotiabank Arena for the first time with the New Jersey Devils, he is more excited about renewing old acquaintances with his former team than worried about f