{"id":130411,"date":"2022-07-05T13:45:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=130411"},"modified":"2022-07-05T13:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:45:40","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-promote-womens-hockey-great-to-assistant-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/07\/05\/toronto-maple-leafs-promote-womens-hockey-great-to-assistant-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs Promote Women&#8217;s Hockey Great to Assistant GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have made another step in making hockey more inclusive for women. News broke Tuesday morning that women&#8217;s hockey great Hayley Wickenheiser has been hired as assistant general manager. Wickenheiser had been working in the team&#8217;s front office as head of player development. Ryan Hardy and Darryl Metcalf were also promoted to assistant GM roles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">General Manager Kyle Dubas announced today that the hockey club has promoted Dr. Hayley Wickenheiser, Ryan Hardy &amp; Darryl Metcalf to the roles of Assistant General Manager &amp; hired Curtis Sanford as Goaltending Coach.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1544331550858383360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Hayley Wickenheiser Becomes Leafs Assistant GM<\/h2>\n<p>Wickenheiser is a person of many talents, as she&#8217;s one of the greatest women&#8217;s hockey players of all-time. She&#8217;s also a doctor and an Olympian in softball. She won four Olympic golds and women&#8217;s hockey and seven IIHF World Championships. The Saskatchewan-born great was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old is a trailblazer on the ice, but gets to do so off the ice as well. She&#8217;s joins Meghan Hunter in Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/02\/10\/cammi-granato-named-assistant-general-manager-of-the-vancouver-canucks\/\" target=\"_self\">as well as Cammi Granato<\/a> and Emilie Castonguay in Vancouver in assistant GM roles.<\/p>\n<p>An assistant general manager job can be a good conduit to becoming a full-time general manager. The NHL has yet to have a woman in the role of general manager. However, moves like the ones above might be a gateway to breaking that barrier. Wickenheiser seems like a solid choice to be in the running to checking off that box.<\/p>\n<h3>What it Means<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaraCivian\/status\/1544364278538539009\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">big day for inclusiveness<\/a> in the NHL today. Mike Grier is on the edge of becoming the first black general manager. Jessica Campbell will be the first female AHL assistant coach with the Seattle Kraken&#8217;s affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>The motto is &#8220;Hockey is for everyone&#8221; may have been drafted in a board room. However, it&#8217;s getting some serious practice today. The NHL is trying to move forward and be more diverse. These moves are <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/03\/05\/canucks-put-more-women-in-the-nhl\/\" target=\"_self\">helping that become a reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how Wickenheiser does in a pressure-packed market like Toronto. However, she&#8217;s a big game player and that may translate over to the front office.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Toronto Maple Leafs announced Tuesday that the team has promoted Dr. Hayley Wickenheiser, Ryan Hardy and Darryl Metcalf to assistant GMs and hired Curtis Sanford as goaltending coach: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FMIqk2U41Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/FMIqk2U41Z<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TSNHockey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TSNHockey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M36r2B2uVY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/M36r2B2uVY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNHockey\/status\/1544335412650557440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have made another step in making hockey more inclusive for women. News broke Tuesday morning that women&#8217;s hockey great Hayley Wickenheiser has been hired as assistant general manager. Wickenheiser had been working in the team&#8217;s front office as head of player development. Ryan Hardy and Darryl Metcalf were also promoted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":130413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4547,34,4548],"tags":[4418,3001,3667,5951,1372],"class_list":["post-130411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leafs","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-cammi-granato","tag-canadian-womens-hockey","tag-hayley-wickenheiser","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-news","tag-womens-hockey"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}