{"id":724361,"date":"2026-06-09T03:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724361\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T03:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:31:10","slug":"maple-leafs-plan-to-interview-joe-pavelski-for-head-coach-vacancy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724361\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs plan to interview Joe Pavelski for head coach vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to multiple sources, the Future Hall-of-Famer is on the Maple Leafs\u2019 radar as the team begins the next phase of its interview process, with one describing him as a \u201cMartin St. Louis-style candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pavelski, who retired at the end of the 2023-24 season, has coached son Nate at the youth level in Madison, Wisc. That\u2019s similar to St. Louis\u2019 path to Montreal. It\u2019s an interesting twist, as Toronto backed away from some other candidates due to a lack of experience. (Another Maple Leafs\u2019 interviewee, Peter Laviolette, is among Los Angeles\u2019s finalists with incumbent D.J. Smith and Jay Woodcroft.)<\/p>\n<p>It also shows the deep respect so many in the sport have for Pavelski. It\u2019s hard to handicap his chances of getting the job, but they are interested in him, and those same sources indicate he\u2019s not shying away from the possibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see where it goes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/32THOUGHTS_500X500_ICON_V2-500x360.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"32 Thoughts: The Podcast\"\/>32 Thoughts: The Podcast<\/p>\n<p>Hockey fans already know the name, but this is not the blog. From Sportsnet, 32 Thoughts: The Podcast with NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas is a weekly deep dive into the biggest news and interviews from the hockey world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/podcasts\/32-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Latest episode<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to multiple sources, the Future Hall-of-Famer is on the Maple Leafs\u2019 radar as the team begins the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-724361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724361","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=724361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}