The Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins will face off in Game 6 tonight at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena as ghosts of postseasons past whoosh heavily through the air.
Auston Matthews will be missing a second straight must-win game, Sheldon Keefe confirmed Thursday morning. Matthews took some time skating with the main group before practice began.
The Toronto Maple Leafs were able to get past the Boston Bruins with a thrilling overtime win in Game 5, thanks to the likes of Joseph Woll and Matthew Knies.
It’s safe to say that almost no one in the Greater Toronto Area has ever heard of Dardenne Prairie, Missouri. The sleepy St. Louis suburb of 12,000 residents rarely makes international news.
While many already had the Toronto Maple Leafs dead and buried before the puck even dropped on Game 5, Sheldon Keefe’s men made Brad Marchand eat his words.
It’s nice to see the Leafs prove that they have enough fight in them to make it a series. Toronto going home for Game 6 was a huge positive when the team was in the process of getting written off even before it was known that Auston Matthews was out of the lineup.
Joseph Woll had his moment. The 25-year-old netminder was lights out in his first start in this season’s Stanley Cup Playoffs, brushing off a shaky first period where he let in one goal on two shots, to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a Game 5 victory.
In an elimination must-win game for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Matthew Knies and goaltender Joseph Woll emerged as the overtime heroes, propelling the team to a thrilling 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins in Game 5.
Matthew Knies scored 2:26 into the first overtime period as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Boston Bruins 2-1 in Game 5 to fend off elimination. John Tavares drove the puck hard to the net and Knies collected the rebound for the game-winner as the series heads back to Scotiabank Arena on Thursday.
The Toronto Maple Leafs lived to fight another day. Amidst all the turmoil and vitriol hurled their way, the Leafs went into Boston, dug in, played a hell of a game, and got a deserved win. Joseph Woll was outstanding.
When starting to write this series I think there was either optimism or naivety involved. I didn’t account for how difficult it would be to come up with positive takeaways as the Leafs neared elimination, especially when there wasn’t a sense of urgency in the performance to get there.
It is looking like one of the top goaltenders for the Toronto Maple Leafs might be close to returning to action with the big club. On Monday, the team announced that Joseph Woll is being called up back up to the NHL roster after a conditioning stint with their American Hockey League affiliate, the Toronto Marlies.
Joseph Woll could be close to returning to NHL action. The 25-year-old stopped 36 of 37 shots in a whirlwind game on Friday night in Laval. He made plenty of saves and dealt with a ton of physicality as players bumped into him throughout the evening.
Joseph Woll played a game on Saturday night — his first game since suffering a high-ankle sprain on Dec. 7 against the Ottawa Senators — but it wasn't with the Maple Leafs.
Toronto Maple Leafs fans got some good news on Wednesday. The team announced Wednesday that goaltender Joseph Woll has been assigned to their AHL affiliate, the Toronto Marlies, on a conditioning stint.
Whether Joseph Woll has been healthy or not, it seems as though goaltending has been a storyline on any given day with the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Maple Leafs would like Woll back in the lineup sooner rather than later, but the touch-and-go nature of a high-ankle sprain had led the club to take a cautious approach.
Joseph Woll has been missed by the Toronto Maple Leafs. However, there was good news reported yesterday. Woll is traveling with the team on this Western Canadian road trip.
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