{"id":706738,"date":"2026-05-31T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706738\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:11:08","slug":"maple-leafs-to-speak-with-wilds-judd-brackett-for-assistant-gm-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706738\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs to speak with Wild&#8217;s Judd Brackett for assistant GM position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> continue to navigate an off-season full of change, the front office is still taking shape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2061094124430794978\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman<\/a>, the Maple Leafs are among the teams permitted by Minnesota to speak with Judd Bracket, the Wild&#8217;s director of amateur scouting, which would be for an assistant general manager position with Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman&#8217;s reporting comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RussoHockey\/status\/2061092951690768521\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Athletic&#8217;s Michael Russo reported<\/a> that Brackett is leaving the Wild for &#8220;an elevated position for another team.&#8221; The veteran scout ran Minnesota&#8217;s last five drafts and is on an expiring contract.<\/p>\n<p>Should Brackett sign on the dotted line with Toronto, he&#8217;ll join a revamped front office led by GM John Chayka and senior executive advisor Mats Sundin, who took over this off-season after Brad Treliving was dismissed in March. <\/p>\n<p>Among the tasks awaiting the Leafs front office are hiring a new head coach following Craig Berube&#8217;s departure and deciding what to do with the No. 1 pick in next month&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs are coming off a 32-36-14 season, finishing eighth in the Atlantic Division, as the franchise missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Toronto Maple Leafs continue to navigate an off-season full of change, the front office is still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-706738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706738","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=706738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}