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The Toronto Maple Leafs completed some managerial promotions and filed the vacancy left by the departure of Steve Briere, as the club promoted Dr. Hayley Wickenheiser, Ryan Hardy, and Darryl Metcalf to Assistant General Manager and hired former NHLer Curtis Sanford as goaltending coach.

Wickenheiser will serve as Assistant General Manager of Player Development. The Hall of Famer joined the club as Assistant Director of Player Development in August 2018 before being promoted to Senior Director of Player Development in May 2021.

Hardy was originally hired as Senior Director of Minor League Operations last June following three years as General Manager of the USHL’s Chicago Steel and will now serve as Assistant General Manager, Minor League Operations..

Metcalf enters his ninth season with the Maple Leafs in 2022-23 after beginning his tenure as an Analyst with the Hockey Research and Development department in 2014. He was elevated to Director of Hockey Research and Development in 2016 before he was named Special Assistant to the General Manager in 2018, and will now serve as Assistant General Manager, Hockey Research and Development.

Brandon Pridham will continue in his role as the primary Assistant General Manager with the Maple Leafs while Laurence Gilman will now serve as Governor and Senior Vice President of the Toronto Marlies, the club’s American Hockey League affiliate.

Sanford joins the Maple Leafs following five seasons as Goaltending Coach with the AHL affiliates of the Vancouver Canucks, the Abbotsford Canucks (2021-22), and Utica Comets (2017-2021), which means he oversaw the development of Canucks starter Thatcher Demko. Over the course of his professional playing career, Sanford spent time in the KHL, AHL, and NHL, where he played 144 regular-season games with St. Louis, Vancouver, and Columbus.

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