- List of Toronto Maple Leafs head coaches
The
Toronto Maple Leafs are a professionalice hockey team based inToronto ,Ontario . The team is a member of the Northeast Division in the Eastern Conference of theNational Hockey League (NHL) and is one of theOriginal Six teams of the NHL. There have been 36head coach es in their franchise history; one during the era of theToronto Arenas (1917–1919), six during the era of the Toronto St. Patricks (1919–1927) and the rest under the Toronto Maple Leafs (1927–present). Five Maple Leafs coaches have been inducted into theHockey Hall of Fame as players:Dick Irvin ,Joe Primeau ,King Clancy ,Red Kelly andDick Duff [cite web|url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMembersByYear.jsp?type=Player|title=List of honored Players|accessdate=2008-07-25|publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame ] while four others have been inducted as builders:Conn Smythe ,Hap Day ,Punch Imlach andRoger Neilson . [cite web|url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMembersByYear.jsp?type=Builder|title=List of honored Builders|accessdate=2008-07-25|publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame ]Frank Carroll has the highest
winning percentage of any Maple Leafs coach, with a .625 record from the 24 games he coached from 1920 to 1921. Neither Mike Rodden nor 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.Pat Burns is the franchise's only coach to win theJack 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 different teams prior to coaching the Maple Leafs. The current coach of the Maple Leafs is Ron Wilson, who signed a four year contract with the team afterPaul Maurice was released at the end of the 2007–08 season. [cite web|url=http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=240031|title=Wilson, Maple Leafs Agree to Terms on 4–year Deal|accessdate=2008-07-25|date=2008-06-09 |publisher=TSN.ca]Key
Coaches
"Statistics are up to date as of the end of the 2007–08 season."
References
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*cite web|url=http://cdn.nhl.com/mapleleafs/bc/images/contentdelta/assets/history/all_time_captains_coaches_GMs.pdf |title=Leafs Leadership|accessdate=2008-07-24|publisher=NHL.com|format=PDF
*cite web|url=http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/TOR/ |title=Toronto Maple Leafs|accessdate=2008-07-24|publisher=Hockey-Reference.com
*;SpecificExternal links
* [http://mapleleafs.nhl.com/ Toronto Maple Leafs] official website
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