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List of Toronto Maple Leafs head coaches

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The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto. The team is a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL) and is one of the Original Six teams of the NHL. There have been 42 head coaches in the franchise history; one during the era of the Toronto Arenas (1917–1919), seven during the era of the Toronto St. Patricks (1919–1927) and the rest under the Toronto Maple Leafs (1927–present).[1] Five Maple Leafs coaches have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as players: Dick Irvin, Joe Primeau, King Clancy, Red Kelly, and Dick Duff[2] while five others have been inducted as builders: Conn Smythe, Hap Day, Punch Imlach, Roger Neilson, and Pat Quinn.[3]

The Scotiabank Arena, home of the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1999 after the maple leaf gardens closed in 1999 as the last original 6 arena

Frank Carroll (brother of the team's first NHL coach, Dick Carroll) has the highest winning percentage of any Maple Leafs coach, with a .625 record from the 24 games he coached in his single 1920–21 season. Neither Mike Rodden nor interim coach Dick Duff, who coached only two games each in 1927 and 1980 respectively, won a game with the team. Dan Maloney has the worst record of any coach who coached more than a season, with a .328 winning percentage from 160 games. Punch Imlach coached the most games of any Maple Leafs coach with 750 games from 1959 to 1969.[1] Pat Burns is the franchise's only coach to win the Jack Adams Award awarded to the head coach "adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success." Pat Quinn also won the award, but with two teams prior to coaching the Maple Leafs.[4]

The current head coach is Jim Hiller, who was hired on June 17, 2026.[5]

Key

# Number of coaches–a running total of the number of coaches, any coach who has two or more separate terms is only counted once.
GC Games coached
W Wins
L Losses
T Ties
OT Overtime/shootout losses
Win% Winning percentage
* Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame
† Spent entire NHL head coaching career with the Maple Leafs
! Also played for the Maple Leafs

Coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the 2025–26 season.

More information #, Name ...
# Name Term Regular season Playoffs Awards Reference
GC W L T/OT Win% GC W L T
Toronto Arenas
1 Dick Carroll† 1917–1919 40 18 22 0 .450 2 1 1 0 Stanley Cup (1918) [6]
Toronto St. Patricks
2 Frank Heffernan† 1919–1920 12 5 7 0 .417 — — — — [7]
3 Harvey Sproule† 1920 12 7 5 0 .583 — — — — [8]
4 Frank Carroll† 1920–1921 24 15 9 0 .625 2 0 2 0 [9]
5 George O'Donoghue† 1921–1923 29 15 13 1 .534 2 1 0 1 Stanley Cup (1922) [10]
6 Charles Querrie† 1923–1924 43 21 21 1 .500 — — — — [11]
7 Eddie Powers† 1924–1926 66 31 32 3 .492 2 0 2 0 [12]
— Charles Querrie† 1926–1927 29 8 17 4 .345 — — — — [11]
8 Mike Rodden† 1927 2 0 2 0 .000 — — — — [13]
Toronto Maple Leafs
9 Alex Romeril† 1927 13 7 5 1 .577 — — — — [14]
10 Conn Smythe* 1927–1930 134 57 57 20 .500 4 2 2 0 [15]
11 Art Duncan 1930–1931 47 21 16 10 .553 2 0 1 1 [1]
— Conn Smythe* (interim) 1931 1 1 0 0 1.000 — — — —
12 Dick Irvin* 1931–1940 427 216 152 59 .576 66 33 32 1 Stanley Cup (1932) [16]
13 Hap Day*! 1940–1950 546 259 206 81 .557 80 49 31 0 Stanley Cup (1942, 1945, 1947–1949) [17]
14 Joe Primeau*! 1950–1953 210 97 71 42 .562 15 8 6 1 Stanley Cup (1951) [18]
15 King Clancy*! 1953–1956 210 80 81 49 .498 14 2 12 0 [19]
16 Howie Meeker†! 1956–1957 70 21 34 15 .407 — — — — [20]
17 Billy Reay 1957–1958 90 26 50 14 .367 — — — — [21]
18 Punch Imlach* 1958–1969 760 365 270 125 .569 89 44 45 0 Stanley Cup (1962–1964, 1967) [22]
— King Clancy*! (interim) 1966 10 7 1 2 .800 — — — — [1]
19 John McLellan† 1969–1973 295 117 136 42 .462 11 3 8 0 [23]
— King Clancy*! (interim) 1972 15 9 3 3 .750 — — — — [1]
20 Red Kelly*! 1973–1977 318 133 123 62 .516 30 11 19 0 [24]
21 Roger Neilson* 1977–1979 160 75 62 23 .541 19 8 11 0 [25]
22 Floyd Smith! 1979–1980 68 30 33 5 .477 — — — — [26]
23 Dick Duff*! (interim) 1980 2 0 2 0 .000 — — — — [27]
— Punch Imlach* (interim) 1980 10 5 5 0 .500 3 0 3 0 [22]
24 Joe Crozier! 1980–1981 40 13 22 5 .388 — — — — [1]
25 Mike Nykoluk† 1981–1984 280 89 144 47 .402 7 1 6 0 [28]
26 Dan Maloney! 1984–1986 160 45 100 15 .328 10 6 4 0 [29]
27 John Brophy† 1986–1988 193 64 111 18 .378 19 9 10 0 [30]
28 George Armstrong†! 1988–1989 47 17 26 4 .404 — — — — [31]
29 Doug Carpenter 1989–1990 91 39 47 5 .456 5 1 4 0 [32]
30 Tom Watt 1990–1992 149 52 80 17 .406 — — — — [33]
31 Pat Burns* 1992–1996 281 133 107 41 .546 46 23 23 0 Jack Adams Award (1993)[4] [34]
32 Nick Beverley† 1996 17 9 6 2 .588 6 2 4 0 [35]
33 Mike Murphy 1996–1998 164 60 87 17 .418 — — — — [36]
34 Pat Quinn*! 1998–2006 574 300 196 78 .591 80 41 39 0 [37]
35 Paul Maurice 2006–2008 164 76 66 22 .530 — — — — [38]
36 Ron Wilson! 2008–2012 310 130 135 45 .492 — — — — [39]
37 Randy Carlyle! 2012–2015 188 91 78 19 .535 7 3 4 0 [40]
38 Peter Horachek (interim) 2015 42 8 28 6 .262 — — — — [41]
39 Mike Babcock 2015–2019 328 164 123 41 .563 20 8 12 0 [42]
40 Sheldon Keefe 2019–2024 349 212 97 40 .607 37 16 21 0 [43]
41 Craig Berube! 2024–2026 164 84 62 18 .567 13 7 6 0 [44]
42 Jim Hiller 2026–present – [45]
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