{"id":593515,"date":"2026-06-07T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/593515\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:15:13","slug":"report-maple-leafs-plan-to-interview-joe-pavelski-for-hc-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/593515\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Maple Leafs plan to interview Joe Pavelski for HC vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> standout appears to be in the running for an NHL head coaching job.<\/p>\n<p>Pavelski was one of the most accomplished late-round draftees in NHL history, appearing in 1,332 games throughout his career. He recorded 1,068 points (476 goals and 592 assists). Later in his playing stint, Pavelski played a key role as a veteran playmaker for the Stars. His leadership was crucial to the development of Wyatt Johnston, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/stars\/2025\/12\/10\/dallas-stars-power-play-nhl-glen-gulutzan-wyatt-johnston-mikko-rantanen-roope-hintz-jason-robertson\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who lived at the Pavelski home as he found his footing in Dallas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friedman added that Pavelski is currently coaching his son, Nate, at the youth hockey level in Madison, Wisconsin. The Maple Leafs are conducting an extensive search for a new head coach after Craig Berube was fired in March.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto has backed away from a few head coaching candidates due to a &#8220;lack of experience,&#8221; Friedman reported. Could Pavelski soon make the jump and lead an NHL squad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former\u00a0Dallas Stars standout appears to be in the running for an NHL head coaching job. Pavelski was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[301,5,20,5172,4,66,31,5171,61173],"class_list":["post-593515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-article","tag-hockey","tag-maple-leafs","tag-mapleleafs","tag-nhl","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-torontomapleleafs","tag-tp-dallas-stars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116709957481132140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}