Toronto Maple Leafs Promote Jake Muzzin, Announce Several Front Office Moves
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Former NHLer Jake Muzzin has been given a promotion by the Maple Leafs as the team announced several front office moves in advance of the 2024-25 NHL season.
While it still stinks the way his playing career ended, the Toronto Maple Leafs are taking great care of Jake Muzzin in his retirement. Muzzin was included in a list of staff updates by the Maple Leafs, and he's getting a bigger role with the team.
Jake Muzzin, who became a pro scout with the Toronto Maple Leafs following his retirement, is now moving into the larger role of Player Development.
"Prior to joining the Maple Leafs development staff, Muzzin spent the 2023-24 NHL season as a Pro Scout for Toronto. Muzzin originally joined the Maple Leafs in a trade with the Los Angeles Kings in January of 2019. In 683 regular season games between Los Angeles and Toronto, the Woodstock, ON native recorded 294 points (69 goals, 225 assists) while adding 28 points (11 goals, 17 assists) through 72 career playoff games. Muzzin won the 2014 Stanley Cup with Los Angeles and helped Canada capture gold medals at the at the 2015 IIHF World Championship and the 2016 World Cup of Hockey."
After suffering two concussions in a short span earlier, Muzzin needed spinal surgery following a collision with Clayton Keller in 2022. He never played afterwards, and it was then that he moved into a front office role with the Maple Leafs.
Among the other moves announced by the team on Monday, Jason Taylor was been hired as a Pro Scout, Jerrod Smith as an Amateur Scout, and Scott Carter is now a part-time Pro and Amateur Scout.
Taylor spent the past three years in the same role with the Calgary Flames, while Smith was a head coach with the OHL's Windsor Spitfires in 2023-24. Carter worked as a scout with the Maple Leafs from 2009 to 2015 before leaving to become the GM of the WHL's Spokane Chiefs.
With the final moves now officially made for the Leafs, it's time to kick off the 2024-25 season in style, against the Canadiens on Wedneaday evening in Montreal.
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