{"id":353076,"date":"2026-06-09T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353076\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:15:52","slug":"report-leafs-to-interview-joe-pavelski-in-coach-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353076\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Leafs to interview Joe Pavelski in coach search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/11746888.jpg\"  alt=\"Nov 23, 2018; San Jose, CA, USA; San Jose Sharks center Joe Pavelski (8) warms up before the game against the Vancouver Canucks at SAP Center at San Jose. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images\" class=\"w-full\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Nov 23, 2018; San Jose, CA, USA; San Jose Sharks center Joe Pavelski (8) warms up before the game against the Vancouver Canucks at SAP Center at San Jose. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images   <\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs plan to interview former NHL center Joe Pavelski for their head coaching vacancy, Sportsnet reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Pavelski, 41, retired after the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs with 1,068 points (476 goals, 592 assists) in 1,332 games with the San Jose Sharks (2006-19) and Dallas Stars (2019-24).<\/p>\n<p>The report called him a &#8220;Martin St. Louis-style candidate,&#8221; referring to St. Louis&#8217; successful transition from the ice to the bench as head coach of the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>A longtime Sharks captain, Pavelski has been coaching his son, Nate, at the youth level in Madison, Wis., according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs reportedly have conducted virtual interviews with at least 15 candidates, including Patrick Roy, Peter Laviolette and David Carle.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto fired coach Craig Berube after finishing last in the Atlantic Division and next-to-last in the Eastern Conference (32-36-14, 78 points) in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 23, 2018; San Jose, CA, USA; San Jose Sharks center Joe Pavelski (8) warms up before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-353076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}