The agent of change emerging from that shakeup is an improbably young aerospace engineer named Dennis A. Muilenburg, who may be the most dynamic leader the defense sector has produced in this generation.
Instead, under coach Peter DeBoer, who's in his first season coaching them, the Devils haven't changed their approach as much as they've rediscovered what worked best for them in the past, balancing their commitment to defense with an offense that can be dynamic when it needs to be.
"I saw this area of the law as one that would be growing and dynamic, and it satisfied my professional interests in being a criminal defense lawyer and also my personal interest in computers, " she says.