{"id":610217,"date":"2026-04-17T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610217\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:50:07","slug":"maple-leafs-interviewing-mats-sundin-for-hockey-department-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/610217\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs interviewing Mats Sundin for hockey department job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick note for a Friday morning: 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> are looking for someone new to lead their hockey operations. In addition to that process, the organization is pursuing adding franchise legend in a management role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sportsnet has learned that ownership will meet with the Maple Leafs&#8217; all-time leading scorer, Mats Sundin, as soon as Friday about a role in the hockey department. It\u2019s unclear when the process began, but the ex-captain is in Toronto and has met with MLSE president Keith Pelley at least once. An advisory role \u2014 or something along those lines \u2014 is being discussed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an excellent idea. Sundin loved representing the blue and white and would bring credibility because he\u2019s extremely popular among the alumni and fanbase. He worked as an analyst for Swedish TV at the recent Winter Olympics and was part of Team Sweden\u2019s management at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We will see where it goes over the next few days, but there\u2019s mutual interest in this reunion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quick note for a Friday morning: The Toronto Maple Leafs are looking for someone new to lead their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-610217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}