Overview
- The New Jersey Devils announced hires of Bryan McCabe as vice president of prospect personnel and assistant general manager of the AHL Utica Comets and Jessica Campbell as manager of hockey/player development.
- Both executives will report into assistant general manager Braden Birch and join the organization immediately as players report to training camp.
- McCabe spent 14 seasons in the Florida Panthers’ front office, served as director of player personnel, and worked on the staff that reached three straight Stanley Cup Finals and won back-to-back championships.
- Campbell joins after two seasons as an on-bench assistant coach with the Seattle Kraken, and she was the first woman to hold a full-time on-bench NHL assistant role before stepping down in April to pursue other opportunities.
- New GM Sunny Mehta framed the hires as a deliberate effort to tighten the Devils’ prospect-to-pro pathway so Utica and New Jersey can better develop and evaluate young players moving between the AHL and NHL.