Coaching Staff

Keefe recorded a 212-97-40 career record (.665 pts%) during his tenure with the Maple Leafs and his regular season win total ranks fifth all-time in Toronto’s franchise history. His points percentage places him first among all head coaches in Toronto’s franchise history. Keefe was the second fastest coach in NHL history (tie, B. Boudreau) to accumulate 200 wins in an NHL career, behind Dan Bylsma with Pittsburgh. He led Toronto to five consecutive postseason appearances and earned a 16-21 record in 37 career Stanley Cup Playoff games.

In 2021-22, under Keefe, the Maple Leafs set a single-season franchise record with 54 wins and 115 points, while also winning 50+ games in consecutive years from 2021-22 to 2022-23. His teams did not register a points percentage lower than .622 in any season. Toronto’s 1,239 goals scored under Keefe’s guidance ranked second in the NHL behind only Colorado (1,241). Toronto’s power play finished first in the NHL (27.3%) in 2021-22, which also set a Toronto franchise record. The team’s overall 24.9 power-play percentage under Keefe ranked second in the NHL behind Edmonton (28.2%).

Before joining the Maple Leafs, Keefe was head coach for Toronto’s American Hockey League affiliate, the Marlies from 2015-16 until his promotion to the NHL in November 2019. Keefe earned a career 199-89-22-9 regular-season record in the AHL with the Marlies and led the team to its first-ever Calder Cup Championship in 2018. The Marlies also won the Macgregor Kilpatrick Trophy as AHL regular season champions on two occasions (2016 & 2018).

A native of Brampton, Ontario, he began his coaching and front office career in 2006-07 with Pembroke of the Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL). Keefe led Pembroke to a CCHL title in his first season, where he served as head coach and general manager. Overall, Pembroke won five consecutive CCHL titles from 2006-07 to 2010-11 with Keefe serving in a management and coaching capacity. Keefe continued his coaching career with Sault. Ste. Marie of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) from 2012-13 to 2014-15, and the team clinched postseason berths in all three seasons.

As a player, Keefe was selected by Tampa Bay in the second round, 47th overall, in the 1999 NHL Draft. The right wing played in 125 career NHL games with Tampa Bay from 2000-01 to 2002-03. Keefe totaled 120 career games at the AHL level (2001-02 to 2004-05) with Springfield, Hershey, and Utah. He also played in 13 games during the 2000-01 season with Detroit of the International Hockey League (IHL).

Keefe played three seasons in the OHL with Toronto and Barrie, where he was named OHL Rookie of the Year in 1999 with Barrie. He also helped Barrie win an OHL title in 2000 when he won the Eddie Powers Trophy as the league’s top scorer with 121 points (48g-73a).

Shaw finished the 2024-25 season as the Flyer's interim head coach, taking over from John Tortorella on March 27, 2025, and posting a 5-3-1 record. Shaw was originally hired as an associate coach on July 5, 2022.

Shaw served as an assistant coach for the Vancouver Canucks during the 2021-22 season and for the Columbus Blue Jackets from 2016-17 to 2020-21. Columbus reached the Stanley Cup Playoffs in four of his five years there.

Before his time in Columbus, Shaw served as a member of the St. Louis Blues coaching staff for ten seasons, from 2006-07 to 2011-12 as assistant coach and as an associate coach from 2012-13 to 2015-16. Shaw was behind the bench when current Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations for the Devils, Martin Brodeur, played his final NHL season with the Blues in 2014-15, and as Brodeur took the role of Assistant General Manager in 2015-16.

Shaw has an extensive coaching resume, also serving as an assistant with the New York Islanders during the 2005-06 season and finishing the year as the team’s interim head coach, replacing Steve Stirling, where he coached the Islanders to an 18-18-4 record.

He served as head coach of the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks (AHL) from 2002-03 to 2004-05 and as an assistant in the AHL with the Springfield Falcons (2001-02). In 2000-01, Shaw served as the head coach of the Detroit Vipers (IHL), where he coached current Devils’ Head Coach Sheldon Keefe, who was in his first professional season. Shaw started his coaching career as a player-coach with the Vipers in three of his last four professional playing seasons before his final NHL playing stint.

Internationally, Shaw served as an assistant coach for Team Europe on Ralph Krueger’s staff for the 2016 IIHF/NHL World Cup of Hockey.

Born April 28, 1964, the native of Cambridge, Ontario, was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the fifth round, 86th overall, in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. The right-handed shot defenseman played in 377 career regular-season NHL games, accumulating 159 points (22 goals, 137 assists) and 208 penalty minutes with Hartford (212), Ottawa (149), Washington (4), and St. Louis (12) from 1985-86 to 1994-95 and 1998-99. He added 12 points (four goals, eight assists) in 23 Stanley Cup Playoff games with Hartford (19) and St. Louis (4).

Brad and his wife, Mary, an author of children’s books, have two daughters- Taylore and Caroline, one son, Brady, and two grandsons- Jett and Lane.

Donato earned 334 career wins at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) level with Harvard, the most all-time by a Head Coach in the program’s history. The Boston, Massachusetts, native led Harvard to eight NCAA Tournament appearances, a Frozen Four berth in 2016-17, and four ECAC Hockey titles. Harvard most recently won the ECAC Hockey title in 2021-22. Donato also led Harvard to a Beanpot title in 2016-17, marking the program’s first win in the annual tournament since 1992-93.

Born on April 28, 1969, Donato played in four seasons at the forward position with Harvard from 1987-88 to 1990-91, tallying 144 career points (50g-94a) in 106 games. Harvard named Donato captain during his Senior season, and he finished with a collegiate career-high 56 points (19g-37a). He also helped Harvard win an NCAA title during the 1988-89 season, after tallying 51 points (14g-37a) in 34 contests.

At the professional level, the Boston Bruins selected Donato with the 98th overall pick in the 1987 NHL Draft. He played in parts of 13 NHL seasons, from 1991-92 to 2003-04, with Boston, New York Islanders, Ottawa, Anaheim, Dallas, Los Angeles, and the New York Rangers. Donato’s played in the NHL. He tallied 347 career points (150g-197a) in 796 career games, including 528 career contests with Boston.

Donato represented the United States as a player and coach several times throughout his hockey career. He played in the International Ice Hockey Federation’s (IIHF) 1988 World Junior Championship (WJC) and later led the U.S. with seven points (4g-3a) at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games. The U.S. named Donato captain for the IIHF’s 1997 World Championship (WC) and he also represented the U.S. at the 1999 and 2002 WC.

Donato resides in Scituate, MA, with his wife, Jeannine, and their four children: Ryan, Jack, Nolan and Madelyn. He was inducted into the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame in 2010.

During MacLean’s tenure, Syracuse clinched a Calder Cup Playoff berth in all three seasons and won the AHL’s championship in 2018. Before his stint in Syracuse, MacLean was an assistant coach in the AHL for Toronto from 2015-16 until the end of the 2022-23 campaign.

He was a member of New Jersey’s current Head Coach Sheldon Keefe’s staff in the AHL with Toronto from 2015-16 until 2019-20. Toronto won three North Division championships during MacLean’s tenure with the team and won the Calder Cup in 2018. He also served as Keefe’s assistant with the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League for two seasons (2013-14, 2014-15).

Born on August 31, 1983, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, MacLean played Junior hockey in the Quebec Maritime Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) for Halifax from 2000-01 to 2002-03. He played professionally in the UHL, ECHL, CHL and IHL over the course of six seasons, until 2009-10, and ended his playing career in the United Kingdom’s Elite Ice Hockey League with Dundee from 2010-11 to 2012-13. MacLean was named captain and a player/assistant coach for Dundee in 2011-12 and 2012-13.

Stewart's responsibilities during his time with the St. Louis Blues organization included working with the team’s AHL goalies and traveling to support St. Louis’s goaltending prospects, including those in the ECHL and drafted picks playing across North America. His development work, while with Springfield, included working with current and former NHL netminders Joel Hofer, Colten Ellis, Malcolm Subban, Garret Sparks, and Charlie Lindgren.

Prior to his position in St. Louis/Springfield, he served as goaltending coach for the Soo Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), from 2016-17 to 2019-20. During that time, he also held the same position with the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks (USports) men's hockey program from 2016 to 2020. While with the Greyhounds, he was on the coaching staff alongside Devils’ alumnus Joe Cirella. He entered the junior hockey landscape coaching Coburg (OJHL) from 2011-12 to 2016-17, returning to the team where he played from 1992-94.

Stewart served as goaltending coach at Fairfield University (ACHA), and as a goalie consultant with St. Lawrence University and Plattsburgh State University at the NCAA level.

As a player, he played parts of the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons with London (OHL) before heading off collegiately, where he played over 50 games with Saint Mary's University (CIAU), earning a degree in business management as an undergrad.

Born on February 16, 1976, in Port Hope, Ontario, Dan and his wife, Brandy, reside in Bowmanville, Ontario, and have four children, Braden, Julia, Boston, and Georgia.