According to the Powerball website, a player in the Garden State won the $1 million prize, along with someone in Georgia, in the Saturday, April 27 Powerball drawing.

The winners matched all five numbers drawn. The winning numbers were 9, 30, 53, 55, and 62. The red Power Ball drawn was 23.

Lottery officials are expected to announce where the tickets were sold this week.

The jackpot rolls to $164 million in the next drawing, held on Monday, April 29.

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The New Jersey Devils need a head coach. Travis Green was given a shot to take over a Devils roster that was desperate to gain ground in the playoff race as the NHL Trade Deadline approached. Green didn’t do much to improve the Devils, as they fell further and further out of the playoff race, eventually getting eliminated. As we look at the final NHL Standings, the Devils sit 10 points out of the Washington Capitals, the final playoff team.

This Devils team finishing with 81 points is a massive disappointment, and it shows the Devils should focus on finding someone from outside the building. There have been dozens of rumors, including tying the Devils to Craig Berube, Bruce Boudreau, and Mitch Love. However, one name stands out above the rest: Mike Sullivan.

The Devils clearly have a desirable opening. Lindy Ruff, the Devils former coach, already accepted a new (old) job to coach the Buffalo Sabres. However, there are only a few head coaches who would truly get the Devils fanbase excited. Mike Sullivan is one of those coaches.

While it always felt unlikely that the Pittsburgh Penguins and relatively new GM Kyle Dubas would let Sullivan go, there is another option. The Devils could trade for Mike Sullivan. It’s rare, but there are historic examples where a team trades for a head coach.

On June 18, 1987, the New York Rangers traded their 1988 first round pick to the Quebec Nordiques for their new head coach, Michel Bergeron. It was a first in NHL history, and there really isn’t much of a record of it happening again. There was a short-lived rule that allowed teams to get compensatory draft picks when their former coaches are hired, but that’s not the same.

So, it’s one coach who was traded on draft day, and it cost a first-round pick. Sullivan is definitely successful, but would the Devil be willing to give up their 10th-overall pick? How about their 2025 first-round pick? It would be an impressive haul by Dubas if he were able to get a first-round pick for a head coach some thought might get fired.

The Devils have been directly tied to Sullivan this week for the first time. Nick Kypreos of the Toronto Star says Sullivan would have interest in coaching the Devils. This is a two-time Stanley Cup champion and the Penguins winningest head coach in franchise history. The Penguins don’t seem like they want to give up Sullivan easily. A first-round pick seems too rich for the Devils, but maybe a future second (they don’t have one in 2024 due to the Timo Meier trade) or a current third.

Who knows if that’s enough. The only precedence we have is decades ago. If Sullivan truly wants out, it would be in the Devils best interest to be there to add him to this amazing roster.

A magnitude 2.9 earthquake shook New Jersey on Saturday morning. The temblor was recorded at 9:49 a.m. with an epicenter near Gladstone in Somerset County, located about 50 miles from New York City, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Officials with New Jersey’s Office of Emergency Management said they had not received any reports of damage to roads or other infrastructure on Saturday.

The quake came three weeks after a rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook the region and was felt across New York City. The seismic event lasted less than a minute but was among the largest earthquakes in the region’s recorded history.

That quake didn’t result in any structural damage or injuries, but caused visible shaking in the city, temporarily disrupted travel and led Newark to evacuate some residents from their homes due to potential damage.

Seismologists previously warned of potential aftershocks in the region after the initial quake on April 5, and USGS officials deployed five “aftershock kits” in New Jersey to monitor seismic activity. The agency has recorded at least 50 aftershocks ranging from magnitude 1.3 to 3.8 since the April 5 quake.

Jessica Thompson Jobe, a research geologist with the USGS, said in an earlier press release that although the area has no active fault lines, there are older inactive lines that date back millions of years.

“Under the current stresses of tectonic plates moving, those faults can be intermittently reactivated,” Jobe said in a release.