The Maple Leafs are hiring former Blues coach Craig Berube to replace Sheldon Keefe.
The Leafs fired head coach Sheldon Keefe on May 9 after Toronto bowed out of the postseason with another first-round Stanley Cup playoff loss, for the third time in four full seasons under Keefe. Toronto's general manager Brad Treliving said then the Leafs were targeting a fresh voice who could help the team reach its full potential.
"In this business over a period of time, the message stops hitting home," said Treliving of moving on from Keefe."It's not just changing the personnel but understanding why a message may not be getting through. So, our focus right now is trying to find that individual ." This will be Berube's third NHL head coaching job. He was previously behind the bench in Philadelphia from 2013-15, guiding the Flyers to a playoff berth in 2014 before being let go following a poor sixth place finish in the Metropolitan Division the following season.' American Hockey League's Chicago Wolves from 2016-17. At the end of that season the Blues promoted Berube to be an assistant coach under Mike Yeo.
That made Berube just the second interim head coach in league history to ever win a championship (Larry Robinson did it first with the 2000In June 2019, the Blues removed Berube's interim tag and signed him to a three-year contract. He re-upped with St. Louis again on another three-year deal in February 2022, to take him through the 2024-25 season. St. Louis never matched the same success it had during Berube's early years there, and the Blues fired him in December 2023.
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