Maple Leafs add Steve Sullivan as assistant coach

"Toronto fired assistant coach Marc Savard on December 22. Savard was responsible for the Maple Leafs' power play, which converted at a league-worst 13 percent rate under his supervision. There were no plans to make external hires to replace Savard, and Sullivan is a clever in-house candidate, who played 1,011 games in the NHL, including parts of four seasons with the Maple Leafs."

""We've got to continue to make our team better," Treliving said. "We've got areas that we've got to get better in. It's not lost on us where the team's at. We live it every day. But I think we've got a real good coach. And that's not to say we don't change some things, tweak some things. We've done that over the course of the last couple of weeks.""

Steve Sullivan was hired as an assistant coach by the Toronto Maple Leafs after serving with the AHL's Toronto Marlies. The move follows the December 22 firing of assistant coach Marc Savard, whose power play unit converted at a league-worst 13 percent rate. The organization had no initial plans for external hires, and Sullivan is an in-house candidate who played 1,011 NHL games, including parts of four seasons with Toronto. Sullivan previously worked with the Arizona Coyotes organization and briefly served as assistant general manager before his February 2021 dismissal. The power play will be overseen by committee with input from Sullivan as the team seeks better chemistry among its top forwards.

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