{"id":253690,"date":"2025-10-19T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/253690\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:04:15","slug":"stolarz-blasts-maple-leafs-following-ot-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/253690\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolarz blasts Maple Leafs following OT loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2013 Anthony Stolarz has had enough.<\/p>\n

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The Maple Leafs goaltender cut a frustrated figure Saturday following a 4-3 overtime loss to the Seattle Kraken in a physical matchup where he twice found himself flat on his back following contact.<\/p>\n

Stolarz was thumped to the ice on two separate occasions \u2014 bruising forward Mason Marchment did the most damage \u2014 and then watched Josh Mahura move in on a breakaway and score his first goal in 134 games in the extra period after Toronto winger William Nylander lost his man in coverage.<\/p>\n

The hulking netminder was asked post-game if the lack of cohesion has anything to do with early-season rust.<\/p>\n

A fuming Stolarz was having none of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of guys have been here for a while,\u201d he fired back. \u201cOvertime, you can\u2019t let someone beat you up the ice there and get a clearcut breakaway. You want to be on the ice in that situation, you\u2019ve gotta work hard, gotta work back. It cost us a point.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen we work hard, the results come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stolarz, who smashed his stick after Mahura\u2019s winner, said Toronto needs to stiffen up in front of its own net \u2014 and make life more difficult for his opposite 200 feet away.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe just didn\u2019t play our game,\u201d he said. \u201cThey outworked us in front on the net. They blocked shots, they beat us up and down the ice. And the score was indicative of that. They just outworked us \u2014 plain simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve got to start going into the cage a little harder, make it harder for their goalies,\u201d Stolarz added. \u201cIt\u2019s not fun. I don\u2019t like having 225-pound guys landing on me. Hopefully learned a lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly said that intensity is something the team values.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou want guys who care,\u201d he said. \u201cYou want guys who are motivated and who want to win, and he is that. He brings a lot of personality and a lot of energy to our group, and that\u2019s extremely valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toronto blueliner Brandon Carlo, who knocked Jaden Schwartz into Stolarz on Seattle\u2019s 3-2 goal in the second, said the club must do a better job in the game\u2019s dirty areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting into the interior and pressure their goalie,\u201d Carlo said. \u201cThe same way that they do ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Leafs head coach Craig Berube, who watched Marchment run Stolarz over on a sequence that saw the incandescent goalie angrily shove the net out of the way to get at his opponent before a scrum ensued, hasn\u2019t been happy with his team\u2019s overall response in similar situations.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot good enough,\u201d said Berube, a Stanley Cup-winning bench boss. \u201cThat play there \u2026 that happens at times, but in general, we\u2019re not clearing out the crease enough. We\u2019re not doing a good enough job.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have to protect our goalie. We\u2019ve got to be harder around our net. I\u2019m not preaching go and take guys\u2019 heads off, but enough\u2019s enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rielly said it\u2019s a fine line when a team\u2019s puck-stopper gets knocked around.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a time where you gotta do what you gotta do, and the line is out of sight,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then there\u2019s a time where you might need a goal and you need to go on the power play and wait for later.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Leafs sit 3-2-1 early in a campaign that has already seen them play six home dates, but there are some worrying signs with on-ice details, including how Saturday\u2019s OT session unravelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t do what we should have done,\u201d Berube said. \u201cWe want to be in more of a wedge so we don\u2019t get beat by speed like that. We\u2019re too spread out, we\u2019re all man-on-man. It\u2019s a difficult play for Willy, but he\u2019s got to have that guy if he wants to man-up like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the guy skated by him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite it only being Toronto\u2019s seventh game on the schedule, Stolarz sounded the alarm in a locker room that has enjoyed plenty of regular-season success \u2014 and very little of it in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many time points are we gonna leave out there?\u201d he asked rhetorically. \u201cWe have the skill, we have the grit, we have the grind. It\u2019s just frustrating that we just can\u2019t put together right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 18, 2025.<\/p>\n

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