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12/27/2014 at 10:34am EST

Lou Lamoriello will be on bench with Oates and Stevens for a short amount of time. Stevens and Albelin will coach D. Oates the forwards

Via Tom Gulitti tweet

added 11:21am, frm Tom Gulitti of Fire & Ice,

Scott Stevens and Adam Oates will both be coaching the Devils for the remainder of the season, general manager Lou Lamoriello announced this morning.

Lamoriello also will be going back behind the Devils' bench for a short term to help run the team.

Stevens, the former Devils captain and Hall of Fame defenseman, will coach the defensemen and Oates will run the forwards to help replace Pete DeBoer, who was fired Friday.

The Devils are 12-17-7 and nine points out of a playoff spot as they head into tonight’s game against the Rangers at Madison Square Garden – both teams’ first game following the NHL’s three-day Christmas break.

Lamoriello admitted it was a "unique" situauton to have co-coaches, but felt it would not be "fair" to have one person to coach the team the rest of the season. Lamoriello said the intention is to hire one head coach for the start of the 2015-16 season. He said it could be Stevens or Oates or someone else.

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added 12:07pm, also from Gulitti, a few more players with the mumps...

Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello revealed this morning that right wing Michael Ryder is the latest player to be diagnosed with the mumps.

He will miss tonight's game against the Rangers along with left wing Patrik Elias, who also has been diagnosed with the mumps, and right wing Martin Havlat.

Havlat was also tested for the mumps, but ended up just having the flu. He skated on his own this morning.

In addition., goaltender Scott Clemmensen, who had been playing in Albany, has also been diagnosed with the mumps.

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