Leafs hire Jeremiah Crowe as director of player personnel
An experienced member in the front office is coming to The Six.
On Wednesday, the Toronto Maple Leafs announced that the team has hired Jeremiah Crowe as the team’s new director of player personnel.
Crowe joins the Leafs after spending the last eight years with one of the team’s Atlantic Division rivals, the Buffalo Sabres. He started out as a pro scout in 2017, before transitioning to director of professional scouting ahead of the 2022-23 season. With Crowe on the staff, Buffalo managed to put together a roster that finally snapped the franchise’s 15-year Stanley Cup Playoff drought this past season. Before that, the 40-year-old was both assistant director of player personnel and director of player personnel with the U.S. National Team Development Program, including working on the United States’ staff at the 2016 Under-17 World Hockey Challenge, which saw the Americans lose in the quarterfinals.
Crowe has also been a scout with the Dubuque Fighting Saints of the United States Hockey League and assistant coach at Buffalo State College, an NCAA D-III program. Prior to his off-ice work, the Bremerhaven, Germany, native played four years at Clarkson University and also spent time in the North American Hockey League.
He is the latest addition to a Leafs front office that has seen some massive changes this offseason. On top of the hirings of John Chayka and Mats Sundin as general manager and senior executive advisor of hockey operations, respectively, Chayka let go of many members of hockey operations, including assistant general managers Darryl Metcalf and Hayley Wickenheiser. Since the end of the 2025-26 season, there have been 11 departures from Toronto’s office, including the exit of assistant GM Brandon Pridham, who joined the Pittsburgh Penguins.
All these moves come after a disappointing campaign for the Leafs, who missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in 10 years. Since then, GM Brad Treliving and head coach Craig Berube have left the organization.
