{"id":163729,"date":"2025-09-23T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163729\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:02:06","slug":"joseph-woll-on-leave-of-absence-toronto-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163729\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Woll on leave of absence: Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll has taken a leave of absence, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Leafs said in a statement that the American netminder is stepping away from the team to \u201cattend to a personal family matter.\u201d The length of the leave is unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cNo additional details will be provided at this time, and we ask that his privacy be respected,\u201d the Leafs said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/sports\/article\/woll-to-start-game-2-for-leafs-against-panthers-no-timeline-on-stolarzs-return\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/sports\/article\/woll-to-start-game-2-for-leafs-against-panthers-no-timeline-on-stolarzs-return\/\">Woll started Game 2<\/a> in the second round of the Leafs playoff run against the reigning champion Florida Panthers, after starter Anthony Stolarz took an elbow to the head from centre Sam Bennett and suffered a concussion in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old was in the crease for the following five games, and recorded a shutout in Game 6. The Leafs were eventually ousted 6-1 in Game 7, despite Woll stopping 28 shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Woll played 42 games last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Leafs start their 2025-2026 season on home ice on Oct. 8 against the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll has taken a leave of absence, the team announced Tuesday. The Leafs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-163729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}