{"id":613218,"date":"2026-04-17T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613218\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:59:08","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-meeting-with-mats-sundin-about-potential-management-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613218\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs meeting with Mats Sundin about potential management role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> are meeting with team legend and Hockey Hall of Famer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mats-sundin\/8451774\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mats-sundin\/8451774\" target=\"_blank\">Mats Sundin<\/a> on Friday about a potential role in their new management structure.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Credit to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FriedgeHNIC<\/a> Mats Sundin is in Toronto today to meet with Keith Pelley and the MLSE hiring team.  It\u2019s believed, Toronto has interest in bringing in their former captain in a prominent role in Hockey Operations. No title is being attached at this point.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/2045134818820641094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Leafs are in search of a new management team after firing GM Brad Treliving late last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sundin, 55, is the Maple Leafs\u2019 franchise all-time leader in points (987). Over his NHL career with the Leafs, Quebec Nordiques and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>, he tallied 1,349 points in 1,346 NHL games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sundin also won three gold medals with Sweden at the World Championships and was the team captain for Sweden\u2019s gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sundin was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2012, and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2013. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His No. 13 was retired by the Maple Leafs in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs are meeting with team legend and Hockey Hall of Famer Mats Sundin on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-613218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}