The newest Maple Leaf is overjoyed to be reuniting with his first NHL head coach in Toronto. Dakota Joshua will have a familiar face on the bench.
When the winger was able to break into the NHL for the first time, it was with the St. Louis Blues and it just so happens that the head coach of that team was Leafs head coach Craig Berube. It might have been just a total of 42 games split between two seasons -- all the way back in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons -- but the Toronto bench boss appears to have had a lasting impact on the physical forward.