{"id":723705,"date":"2026-06-08T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723705\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:20:09","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-set-to-start-in-person-interviews-in-coaching-search-around-five-candidates-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723705\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs set to start in-person interviews in coaching search, around five candidates left"},"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> will begin holding in-person interviews with their head coaching candidates this week, TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LeBrun notes that about five candidates are believed to have advanced to the second phase after general manager John Chayka spoke to roughly 20 candidates in the first phase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LeBrun revealed Sunday that NHL veteran Joe Pavelski is among the candidates for the Maple Leafs job despite having no professional coaching experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/maple-leafs-set-to-interview-roy-laviolette-this-week-as-head-coach-search-continues\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/maple-leafs-set-to-interview-roy-laviolette-this-week-as-head-coach-search-continues\/\">TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger reported earlier last week<\/a> that the Leafs spoke with Patrick Roy and Peter Laviolette as part of their search. Laviolette is out of the running after he was hired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Leafs fired Craig Berube as head coach after two seasons on May 13. The decision came shortly after Chayka took over as Brad Treliving\u2019s replacement at general manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re not focused on some artificial timeline,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/chayka-impressed-by-mckennas-real-resolve-leafs-see-five-six-players-in-top-tier-of-draft\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/article\/chayka-impressed-by-mckennas-real-resolve-leafs-see-five-six-players-in-top-tier-of-draft\/\">Chayka said via TSN\u2019s Mark Masters<\/a> at the NHL\u2019s draft combine in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re really focused on conviction. I think it\u2019s been a long time since there\u2019s been kind of a full search for this organization and I think it\u2019s important for us to take our time and get it right. You know, this is the next leader of 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>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chayka said the club remains without a firm timeline to finalize a hire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve gone through a very thorough process,\u201d Chayka said. \u201cNow we\u2019re starting to get into this next layer of this. No timeline, no time constraints. When it\u2019s right we\u2019ll make that decision, but we\u2019re going to be patient and get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Leafs missed the playoffs for the first time in nine seasons in 2025-26, finishing with a record of 32-36-14 for 78 points. This brought major changes within the organization as Treliving was fired near the end of the regular season with Berube joining him on the way out of town a few weeks later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Along with Chayka, Mats Sundin, Judd Brackett and Freddie Hamilton have also joined the team\u2019s new-look front office this off-season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs will begin holding in-person interviews with their head coaching candidates this week, TSN Hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,85,113126],"class_list":["post-723705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723705","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=723705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}