The Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that assistant coach Dean Chynoweth would not be returning with the team next season.

The Leafs announced today the hiring of Lane Lambert, the former New York Islander head coach, who will be joining Craig Berube as an assistant and so Chynoweth was the odd-man out.

Chynoweth was previously the assistant coach for the Carolina Hurricanes before joining Toronto in 2021.

He joined the Hurricanes in 2018 as one of Rod Brind'Amour's first assistants and he primarily ran the defense and penalty kill.

Over his three years with the team, the Canes had the league's second best regular season penalty kill with a 83.4% success rate and the team scored 25 shorthanded goals. However, the team had just a 74.6% success rate in the playoffs in that same span.

He was one of the primary proponents of the aggressive penalty kill that the Canes use and brought that same style to Toronto.

Chynoweth left after the first contract fiasco with Brind'Amour and his assistants and was promptly hired by Toronto.

Following his departure, Carolina brought in former Hurricanes defenseman Tim Gleason who has been on staff for the last three seasons and has had even better success with the team.

In Toronto, Chynoweth brought that same regular season success for the Maple Leafs' PK but their inability to carry that over into the playoffs more than likely cost him the job.