The Maple Leafs announced Friday that the hockey club has hired Jacques Lemaire as a special assignment coach.
Lemaire, who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a player in 1984, spent the past six seasons with the New Jersey Devils organization as a head coach (2009-10, 2010-11) and most recently as a special assignment coach.
Lemaire is a two-time winner of the Jack Adams Trophy as the NHL’s coach of the year and also won an Olympic gold medal in 2010 with Team Canada while serving as an assistant with head coach Mike Babcock, who is now coach of the Leafs.