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).

Colliton posted identical records of 40-25-7 in his two regular seasons at the helm of Abbotsford and led them to the Calder Cup Playoffs both seasons.

Colliton also has head coaching experience in the National Hockey League, serving as the head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks for parts of four seasons (2018-19 to 2021-22). At the time of his hiring, he was the youngest coach in the NHL and over his tenure guided the Blackhawks to a record of 87-92-26 (.488 points %). Hired by the Blackhawks on November 6, 2018, Colliton had been coaching his second season with their AHL affiliate in Rockford. In 2017-18, his first season with Rockford, the team advanced to the Western Conference Finals. Colliton finished with a career record of 46-31-0-11 in 88 games with the IceHogs.

He also served as head coach for Mora IK in HockeyAllsvenskan, between 2013-14 and 2016-17. At the time, HockeyAllsvenskan was in Sweden’s second league, and he led the team to SHL promotion in his final season with the club.

Colliton was originally named assistant coach for Team Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, before taking over the head coaching duties when Claude Julien was unable to serve in the capacity due to an injury.

A native of Blackie, Alberta, the New York Islanders selected Colliton in the second round, 58th overall, at the 2003 NHL Draft. He played six seasons in the Islanders’ organization at the NHL and AHL levels, from 2005-06 through 2011-12. The center scored three goals and three assists in 57 career NHL games and while in the American Hockey League with Bridgeport, scored 203 points (77g-126a) in 326 AHL games. Colliton represented his home country at the 2003 World Junior Under-18 Championships (Gold), 2004 World Junior Championship (Gold) and 2005 World Juniors (Silver).

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.