{"id":448141,"date":"2026-02-06T02:43:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/448141\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:43:58","slug":"a-maple-leafs-goalie-is-popping-up-in-trade-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/448141\/","title":{"rendered":"A Maple Leafs goalie is popping up in trade discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nA Maple Leafs goalie is popping up in trade discussions&#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Hockey Patrol has no direct affiliation to the Toronto Maple Leafs, NHL or NHLPA<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t  &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/639980.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Apr 13, 2025; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll (60) and goaltender Anthony Stolarz (41) celebrate their victory against the Carolina Hurricanes at Lenovo Center\" title=\"Apr 13, 2025; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll (60) and goaltender Anthony Stolarz (41) celebrate their victory against the Carolina Hurricanes at Lenovo Center\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: James Guillory-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs goaltending situation has become uncertain about their long-term outlook.<\/p>\n<p>The goaltending battle for the Toronto Maple Leafs is starting to become an uncertainty as Anthony Stolarz&#8217;s future may be hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Leafs goaltending situation, Elliotte Friedman discussed the status of the Leafs options in net, and considered the possibility on Stolarz ending up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockeypatrol.com\/nhl-team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/anthony-stolarz-could-be-at-the-center-of-a-move-that-reshapes-the-maple-leafs\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">being moved out by Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Stolarz, to me, is an interesting one. This is a guy who just extended a few months ago. I&#8217;m curious about the fact that they are already looking to trade him. If they&#8217;re worried about him physically, that&#8217;s one thing, but a year ago, him and Woll were the second-best goalies in the league. &#8211; Elliotte Friedman <\/p>\n<p>Expected to be the Toronto Maple Leafs tandem going forward along with Joseph Woll, Stolarz has underperformed this season with a 3.55 GAA and a .882SV% in 16 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>A steep drop off from a dominant season in 2024-25 in which Stolarz had a 2.14 GAA and a .926SV% in 34 games for Toronto, questions have emerged over his long-term job security.<\/p>\n<p> How Dennis Hildeby has made Anthony Stolarz expendable <\/p>\n<p>Adding more questions to Stolarz&#8217;s future is Dennis Hildeby. After being called up from the AHL following injuries to Stolarz and Woll, Hildeby delivered in net with a 2.84GAA and a .912SV% in 19 games for the Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing last season to be the Leafs answer in net after a rotation of starters over the last few seasons, suddenly, Stolarz himself now finds uncertainty about if he&#8217;ll remain in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Hildeby also complicates things further after showing that he can be an NHL netminder. While Hildeby, or Woll, could be the one on the move, it&#8217;s Stolarz the one underperforming of the three.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unlikely that Hildeby will be in the NHL beyond this season, and shouldn&#8217;t be, but unless the Leafsare 100% sure, Anthony Stolarz has gone from an answer to a question in the crease as Toronto&#8217;s #1.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Hockey Patrol<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; A Maple Leafs goalie is popping up in trade discussions&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[54,3081,28110,5,3821,23004,20,5172,4,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-448141","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-goaltending-depth","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-joseph-woll","13":"tag-leafs-trade-rumors","14":"tag-maple-leafs","15":"tag-mapleleafs","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-toronto","18":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","19":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116021393880287565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448141","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=448141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}