On Friday, the New Jersey Devils put out a two-sentence release on their official website.
The first sentence confirmed reports that the team was making a coaching change; the second announced that the club would be making no further comment until general manager Lou Lamoriello had a chance to address his team on Saturday morning.
As with all coaching changes, it's an open question to what degree the Devils' struggles have been the product of the coach and what percentage of the blame falls on the roster he was given to work with. It's a question that, again as with all coaching changes, will be given a partial answer by the work of DeBoer's successor (For more on this, see colleague Dave Lozo's assessment of DeBoer's work).
Who will that successor be? The following slideshow briefly profiles and ranks some potential candidates for the top job behind the New Jersey bench.
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