{"id":404575,"date":"2026-01-13T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/404575\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:05:10","slug":"stolarz-konecny-samuelsson-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/404575\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolarz, Konecny, Samuelsson \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz<\/a> reached another milestone as he approaches his return. David Alter of The Hockey News revealed that<\/a> Stolarz skated with the regular group today.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old will be eager to get back into action after what\u2019s been a trying 2025-26 so far. Unable to play since November 11 after an upper-body injury, even beforehand, Stolarz struggled a bit. His .884 SV% and 3.51 GAA are below expectations from the upcoming four year extension worth $3.75MM per year, in which Toronto is banking on the late-bloomer to hold down their crease for his first true #1 role.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winners of seven out of their last 10, the Leafs have turned the corner after it appeared their season was in serious danger. Just shy of a Wild Card spot for now, the team could finally have two-punch stability between the pipes. Joseph Woll<\/a> has exceeded expectations since coming in for Stolarz, with a .921 SV% and 10-4-2 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not yet a specific return date for Stolarz, but he and Woll figure to give Toronto a formidable duo entering the final push of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elsewhere across the league:<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Flyers star Travis Konecny<\/a> has had an eventful last few days, but returned to the lineup tonight, shared by Jackie Spiegel of The Philadelphia Enquirer.<\/a> Konecny missed Saturday\u2019s game after an upper-body injury from the day before, and came back to practice yesterday, which seemed to be a good sign. The 28-year-old then left yesterday\u2019s skate with another injury, unable to catch a break. Thankfully back tonight without a hitch, Konecny was ejected from the game for abuse of officials, as reported by Jordan Hall of NBC Sports Philadelphia.<\/a> The Flyers top forward will look ahead to next Wednesday\u2019s game in Buffalo.\u00a0
\nBuffalo Sabres defenseman Mattias Samuelsson<\/a> was shaken up late in tonight\u2019s loss against Florida, and Head Coach Lindy Ruff<\/a> had no immediate update postgame, per Rachel Lenzi of The Buffalo News.<\/a> Samuelsson has missed just two games on the year, his play as a top pairing blueliner a huge part of Buffalo\u2019s revival of late. The 25-year-old appeared to be favoring his right arm after taking a spill. The Sabres are back in action Wednesday, hosting Konecny and Philadelphia, hopefully not sans their lefty minute-eater in the midst of his best campaign yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz reached another milestone as he approaches his return. David Alter of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[54,229,5,20,5172,3034,4,56,404,66,31,5171,731],"class_list":["post-404575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-anthony-stolarz","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-hockey","tag-maple-leafs","tag-mapleleafs","tag-mattias-samuelsson","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-snapshots","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-torontomapleleafs","tag-travis-konecny"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115885816180428526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404575","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=404575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}