Report: Leafs meeting with Mats Sundin about role with organization
According to a report from Chris Johnston of The Athletic, the Toronto Maple Leafs are set to interview franchise legend Mats Sundin for a role in the team’s front office.
Sundin is one of the most decorated players in the storied history of the Leafs’ organization. He was the team’s star player from 1994 through 2008, scoring 420 goals and recording 567 assists for 987 points in 981 career regular season games in the blue and white.
For his NHL career, which featured four seasons with the Quebec Nordiques and a retirement campaign in 2008-09 with the Vancouver Canucks, Sundin finished with 564 goals, 785 assists and 1,349 points in 1,346 career games.
Sundin is still Toronto’s all-time leader in points, but he was passed for the franchise lead in goals earlier this year by Auston Matthews. Sundin still leads Matthews by 207 points.
The Leafs are searching for a new front office after relieving Brad Treliving of his duties as general manager prior to the end of the regular season.
Treliving was in charge of the team for three seasons that culminated in a disastrous 2025-26 campaign that saw Toronto miss out on the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2016. The Leafs finished the year with a 32-36-14 record, and if the draft lottery does not go their way, they could send the No. 6 or No. 7 overall pick to the Boston Bruins after trading the pick for Brandon Carlo with just top-5 protection last trade deadline.
When describing what he was looking for in his restructured front office, team president and CEO Keith Pelley stressed the importance of hiring a “data driven” general manager who would use extensive research to make decisions surrounded by more traditional hockey minds with a background in the sport. Sundin certainly fits the bill for the latter.
One major candidate for the former role came off the board on Thursday night, when the New Jersey Devils hired former Florida Panthers assistant general manager Sunny Mehta as their new GM.