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 Sheldon Keefe, who became the 40th head coach in franchise history on November 20, 2019.[5]
Sheldon Keefe is the only living person who has coached the Toronto Maple Leafs to a playoff series win. Red Kelly, who passed in 2019, had been the last surviving among Leafs (head) coaches to win at least one playoff series.
Key
| # | Number of coaches–a running total of the number of coaches, any coach who has two or more separate terms is only counted once. |
| GC | Games coached |
| W | Wins |
| L | Losses |
| T | Ties |
| OT | Overtime/shootout losses |
| Win% | Winning percentage |
| * | Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame |
| † | Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Maple Leafs |
| ! | Also Played For The Leafs |
Coaches
Statistics are up to date as of the 2019–20 season.
| # | Name | Term | Regular season | Playoffs | Awards | Reference | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GC | W | L | T/OT | Win% | GC | W | L | T | |||||||||
| Toronto Arenas | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Dick Carroll† | 1917–1919 | 40 | 18 | 22 | 0 | .450 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Stanley Cup (1918) | [6] | ||||
| Toronto St. Patricks | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Frank Heffernan† | 1919–1920 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | .417 | – | – | – | – | [7] | |||||
| 3 | Harvey Sproule† | 1920 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | .583 | – | – | – | – | [8] | |||||
| 4 | Frank Carroll† | 1920–1921 | 24 | 15 | 9 | 0 | .625 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | [9] | |||||
| 5 | George O'Donoghue† | 1921–1923 | 29 | 15 | 13 | 1 | .534 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Stanley Cup (1922) | [10] | ||||
| 6 | Charles Querrie† | 1923–1924 | 43 | 21 | 21 | 1 | .500 | – | – | – | – | [11] | |||||
| 7 | Eddie Powers† | 1924–1926 | 66 | 31 | 32 | 3 | .492 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | [12] | |||||
| — | Charles Querrie† | 1926–1927 | 29 | 8 | 17 | 4 | .345 | – | – | – | – | [11] | |||||
| 8 | Mike Rodden† | 1927 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | [13] | |||||
| Toronto Maple Leafs | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Alex Romeril† | 1927 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | .577 | – | – | – | – | [14] | |||||
| 10 | Conn Smythe* | 1927–1930 | 134 | 57 | 57 | 20 | .500 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | [15] | |||||
| 11 | Art Duncan | 1930–1931 | 47 | 21 | 16 | 10 | .553 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | [1] | |||||
| — | Conn Smythe* (interim) | 1931 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | – | – | – | – | ||||||
| 12 | Dick Irvin* | 1931–1940 | 427 | 216 | 152 | 59 | .576 | 66 | 33 | 32 | 1 | Stanley Cup (1932) | [16] | ||||
| 13 | Hap Day*! | 1940–1950 | 546 | 259 | 206 | 81 | .557 | 80 | 49 | 31 | 0 | Stanley Cup (1942, 1945, 1947–49) | [17] | ||||
| 14 | Joe Primeau*! | 1950–1953 | 210 | 97 | 71 | 42 | .562 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | Stanley Cup (1951) | [18] | ||||
| 15 | King Clancy*! | 1953–1956 | 210 | 80 | 81 | 49 | .498 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 0 | [19] | |||||
| 16 | Howie Meeker†! | 1956–1957 | 70 | 21 | 34 | 15 | .407 | – | – | – | – | [20] | |||||
| 17 | Billy Reay | 1957–1958 | 90 | 26 | 50 | 14 | .367 | – | – | – | – | [21] | |||||
| 18 | Punch Imlach* | 1958–1969 | 760 | 365 | 270 | 125 | .569 | 89 | 44 | 45 | 0 | Stanley Cup (1962–64, 1967) | [22] | ||||
| — | King Clancy*! (interim) | 1966 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | .800 | – | – | – | – | [1] | |||||
| 19 | John McLellan† | 1969–1973 | 295 | 117 | 136 | 42 | .462 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | [23] | |||||
| — | King Clancy*! (interim) | 1972 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | .750 | – | – | – | – | [1] | |||||
| 20 | Red Kelly*! | 1973–1977 | 318 | 133 | 123 | 62 | .516 | 30 | 11 | 19 | 0 | [24] | |||||
| 21 | Roger Neilson* | 1977–1979 | 160 | 75 | 62 | 23 | .541 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 0 | [25] | |||||
| 22 | Floyd Smith | 1979–1980 | 68 | 30 | 33 | 5 | .477 | – | – | – | – | [26] | |||||
| 23 | Dick Duff* (interim) | 1980 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | – | – | – | – | [27] | |||||
| — | Punch Imlach* (interim) | 1980 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | .500 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | [22] | |||||
| 24 | Joe Crozier | 1980–1981 | 40 | 13 | 22 | 5 | .388 | – | – | – | – | [1] | |||||
| 25 | Mike Nykoluk† | 1981–1984 | 280 | 89 | 144 | 47 | .402 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | [28] | |||||
| 26 | Dan Maloney! | 1984–1986 | 160 | 45 | 100 | 15 | .328 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | [29] | |||||
| 27 | John Brophy† | 1986–1988 | 193 | 64 | 111 | 18 | .378 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0 | [30] | |||||
| 28 | George Armstrong†! | 1988–1989 | 47 | 17 | 26 | 4 | .404 | – | – | – | – | [31] | |||||
| 29 | Doug Carpenter | 1989–1990 | 91 | 39 | 47 | 5 | .456 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | [32] | |||||
| 30 | Tom Watt | 1990–1992 | 149 | 52 | 80 | 17 | .406 | – | – | – | – | [33] | |||||
| 31 | Pat Burns* | 1992–1996 | 281 | 133 | 107 | 41 | .546 | 46 | 23 | 23 | 0 | Jack Adams Award (1993)[4] | [34] | ||||
| 32 | Nick Beverley† | 1996 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | .588 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | [35] | |||||
| 33 | Mike Murphy | 1996–1998 | 164 | 60 | 87 | 17 | .418 | – | – | – | – | [36] | |||||
| 34 | Pat Quinn*! | 1998–2006 | 574 | 300 | 196 | 78 | .591 | 80 | 41 | 39 | 0 | [37] | |||||
| 35 | Paul Maurice | 2006–2008 | 164 | 76 | 66 | 22 | .530 | – | – | – | – | [38] | |||||
| 36 | Ron Wilson! | 2008–2012 | 310 | 130 | 135 | 45 | .492 | – | – | – | – | [39] | |||||
| 37 | Randy Carlyle! | 2012–2015 | 188 | 91 | 78 | 19 | .535 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | [40] | |||||
| 38 | Peter Horachek (interim) | 2015 | 42 | 8 | 28 | 6 | .262 | – | – | – | – | [41] | |||||
| 39 | Mike Babcock | 2015–2019 | 328 | 164 | 123 | 41 | .563 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | [42] | |||||
| 40 | Sheldon Keefe† | 2019–present | 349 | 212 | 97 | 40 | .607 | 34 | 14 | 20 | 0 | [5] | |||||
References
- General
- "Leafs Leadership" (PDF). NHL.com. Lincoln Hockey and the National Hockey League. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- "Toronto Maple Leafs". Hockey-Reference.com. Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 2008-08-30. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- "List of winners of the Stanley Cup". NHL.com. Lincoln Hockey and the National Hockey League. Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
- Specific
External links
- Toronto Maple Leafs official website
