{"id":24972,"date":"2025-05-11T04:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T04:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/24972\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T04:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T04:43:12","slug":"maple-leafs-goalie-anthony-stolarz-making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/24972\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs Goalie Anthony Stolarz Making Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Maple Leafs goalie\u00a0Anthony Stolarz<\/a> continues to make progress from his injury, head coach Craig Berube told reporters, including TSN\u2019s Mark Masters<\/a>. However, Berube added that Stolarz hasn\u2019t returned to skating.<\/p>\n

The team has not formally announced why Stolarz remains out, but he was injured in Game 1 when Florida\u2019s Sam Bennett<\/a> hit him in the head with his arm, causing Stolarz to leave the game. He was seen vomiting on the bench and was eventually taken to the hospital for evaluation. Berube confirm that Stolarz was doing well and discharged from the hospital later that night. He performed well in the team\u2019s first round series against the Senators, with a .901 save percentage in those six games.<\/p>\n

In his place, backup\u00a0Joseph Woll<\/a> has done a commendable job, leading Toronto to a 2-1 series lead against the Panthers. However, he has just a .869 save percentage in those games and is coming off of an overtime loss where he let in five goals. It also appears the defending champs are beginning to exploit Woll\u2019s puck handling abilities, per NHL.com\u2019s Mike Zeisberger. As Berube noted: \u201cA lot of those rims, they\u2019re up, they\u2019re not on the ice, and that\u2019s by design. If they can get a good lick on it, they\u2019re going to put it off the glass, and it\u2019s pretty tough for him to come out and play those. We\u2019re going to have to move it quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s goalie situation is in a tough spot with Stolarz\u2019s injury and a sickness to third option Matt Murray<\/a>, who was unable to suit up for Game 3. Murray\u2019s status for Game 4 isn\u2019t yet known, but if he\u2019s unable to go, it would likely signify that rookie Dennis Hildeby<\/a> would serve as backup again. Ironically, the most playoff-experienced goaltender on Toronto\u2019s roster is Murray \u2014 the same netminder who burst onto the scene with the Pittsburgh Penguins and backstopped them to consecutive Stanley Cup titles. However, since leaving Pittsburgh, his play has declined, and he made only two appearances for Toronto this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs goalie\u00a0Anthony Stolarz continues to make progress from his injury, head coach Craig Berube told reporters,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[54,3081,5,3821,20,5172,3085,4,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-24972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-anthony-stolarz","9":"tag-dennis-hildeby","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-joseph-woll","12":"tag-maple-leafs","13":"tag-mapleleafs","14":"tag-matt-murray-b-1994","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-toronto","17":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","18":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114487374962874459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}