List of Toronto Maple Leafs head coaches

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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]

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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]

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.
GCGames coached
WWins
LLosses
TTies
OTOvertime/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 Maple Leafs

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the 2023–24 season.

#NameTermRegular seasonPlayoffsAwardsReference
GCWLT/OTWin%GCWLT
Toronto Arenas
1 Dick Carroll † 1917–1919 4018220.4502110 Stanley Cup (1918) [6]
Toronto St. Patricks
2 Frank Heffernan † 1919–1920 12570.417———— [7]
3 Harvey Sproule † 1920 12750.583———— [8]
4 Frank Carroll † 1920–1921 241590.6252020 [9]
5 George O'Donoghue † 1921–1923 2915131.5342101Stanley Cup (1922) [10]
6 Charles Querrie † 1923–1924 4321211.500———— [11]
7 Eddie Powers † 1924–1926 6631323.4922020 [12]
— Charles Querrie † 1926–1927 298174.345———— [11]
8 Mike Rodden † 1927 2020.000———— [13]
Toronto Maple Leafs
9 Alex Romeril † 1927 13751.577———— [14]
10 Conn Smythe * 1927–1930 134575720.5004220 [15]
11 Art Duncan 1930–1931 47211610.5532011 [1]
— Conn Smythe * (interim) 1931 11001.000————
12 Dick Irvin * 1931–1940 42721615259.5766633321Stanley Cup (1932) [16]
13 Hap Day *! 1940–1950 54625920681.5578049310Stanley Cup (1942, 1945, 1947–49) [17]
14 Joe Primeau *! 1950–1953 210977142.56215861Stanley Cup (1951) [18]
15 King Clancy *! 1953–1956 210808149.498142120 [19]
16 Howie Meeker †! 1956–1957 70213415.407———— [20]
17 Billy Reay 1957–1958 90265014.367———— [21]
18 Punch Imlach * 1958–1969 760365270125.5698944450Stanley Cup (1962–64, 1967) [22]
— King Clancy *! (interim) 1966 10712.800———— [1]
19 John McLellan † 1969–1973 29511713642.46211380 [23]
— King Clancy *! (interim)197215933.750———— [1]
20 Red Kelly *! 1973–1977 31813312362.5163011190 [24]
21 Roger Neilson * 1977–1979 160756223.541198110 [25]
22 Floyd Smith ! 1979–1980 6830335.477———— [26]
23 Dick Duff *! (interim) 1980 2020.000———— [27]
— Punch Imlach * (interim) 1980 10550.5003030 [22]
24 Joe Crozier ! 1980–1981 4013225.388———— [1]
25 Mike Nykoluk † 1981–1984 2808914447.4027160 [28]
26 Dan Maloney ! 1984–1986 1604510015.32810640 [29]
27 John Brophy † 1986–1988 1936411118.378199100 [30]
28 George Armstrong †! 1988–1989 4717264.404———— [31]
29 Doug Carpenter 1989–1990 9139475.4565140 [32]
30 Tom Watt 1990–1992 149528017.406———— [33]
31 Pat Burns * 1992–1996 28113310741.5464623230 Jack Adams Award (1993) [4] [34]
32 Nick Beverley † 1996 17962.5886240 [35]
33 Mike Murphy 1996–1998 164608717.418———— [36]
34 Pat Quinn *! 1998–2006 57430019678.5918041390 [37]
35 Paul Maurice 2006–2008 164766622.530———— [38]
36 Ron Wilson ! 2008–2012 31013013545.492———— [39]
37 Randy Carlyle ! 2012–2015 188917819.5357340 [40]
38 Peter Horachek (interim) 2015 428286.262———— [41]
39 Mike Babcock 2015–2019 32816412341.563208120 [42]
40 Sheldon Keefe 2019–2024 3492129740.6073716210 [43]
41 Craig Berube ! 2024–present [44]

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