Toronto to put rookie netminder in goal for game 4 after Ilya Samsonov incurred an upper-body injury on Sunday
On the day before the Maple Leafs’ most important game in who knows how long, Joseph Woll seemed calm enough.
None of that can be placed on the shoulders of a 24-year-old who has played all of 11 regular-season games in the NHL and a bit of two in the playoffs. But this is a huge moment for him and everyone else. Toronto’s first draft pick in the third round in 2016, Woll was the starting goalie at Boston College for three years and never had a save percentage lower than .913. He has spent parts of four seasons with the Marlies and, after being sidelined for eight months by shoulder and ankle issues, seemed to turn the corner this year.
The Maple Leafs have Mount Everest to climb if they are going to survive the round. Only four teams in NHL history have ever come back from an 0-3 deficit.“We don’t care what you guys say,” Mitch Marner told the Canadian Press on Tuesday. “We don’t listen to you guys outside of this locker room. We’re just focused on ourselves.”
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