List of Toronto Maple Leafs head coaches

The Scotiabank Arena, home of the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1999

The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario. The team is a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) and is one of the Original Six teams of the NHL. There have been 40 head coaches in their franchise history; one during the era of the Toronto Arenas (1917–1919), seven during the era of the Toronto St. Patricks (1919–1927) and the rest under the Toronto Maple Leafs (1927–present).[1] Five Maple Leafs coaches have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as players: Dick Irvin, Joe Primeau, King Clancy, Red Kelly, and Dick Duff[2] while five others have been inducted as builders: Conn Smythe, Hap Day, Punch Imlach, Roger Neilson, and Pat Quinn.[3]

Frank Carroll (brother of the team's first NHL coach, Dick Carroll) has the highest winning percentage of any Maple Leafs coach, with a .625 record from the 24 games he coached in his single 1920–21 season. Neither Mike Rodden nor interim coach Dick Duff, who coached only two games each in 1927 and 1980 respectively, won a game with the team. Dan Maloney has the worst record of any who coached more than a season, with a .328 winning percentage from 160 games. Punch Imlach coached the most games of any Maple Leafs coach with 750 games from 1959 to 1969.[1] Pat Burns is the franchise's only coach to win the Jack Adams Award awarded to the head coach "adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success." Pat Quinn also won the award, but with two teams prior to coaching the Maple Leafs.[4]

The current head coach is Craig Berube, who was hired on May 17, 2024.[5]

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  2. ^ "List of honored Players". Hockey Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2008.
  3. ^ "List of honored Builders". Hockey Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on May 28, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2008.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference JackAdams was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Berube hired as Maple Leafs coach, replaces Keefe". NHL.com. May 17, 2024. Retrieved May 17, 2024.