{"id":175823,"date":"2025-09-28T19:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175823\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:06:07","slug":"stolarz-signs-4-year-15-million-contract-with-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175823\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolarz signs 4-year, $15 million contract with Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Stolarz<\/a> signed a four-year, $15 million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday. It begins next season and has an average annual value of $3.75 million.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old goalie missed nearly two months last season while recovering from knee surgery. He played an NHL career-high 34 games (33 starts) and went 21-8-3 with a 2.14 goals-against average, .926 save percentage and four shutouts.<\/p>\n

“It’s exciting for sure,” Stolarz said in a video posted by the Maple Leafs. “It was something I wanted to wrap up before the season starts. I’m very excited to be a part of the Maple Leafs organization for the next few years here, and I’m looking forward to getting the season started.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first NHL contract Stolarz has signed that is longer than two years.<\/p>\n

“I think that’s kind of the goal for every player in this league,” Stolarz told NHL.com last week<\/a>. “You know, it’s tough to make it, but it’s even tougher to stay. I’ve obviously learned that throughout my career. I’ve been on waivers a few times, I’ve been traded, so for me to be able to potentially call a place home for more than a year or two would be huge for me.<\/p>\n

“I’ll let my agent kind of work things out. I will say we’ve had some good talks, but once the season starts, I kind of just want to focus on that and just worry about our end goal, which is the Stanley Cup.”<\/p>\n

A second-round pick (No. 45) by the Philadelphia Flyers at the 2012 NHL Draft, Stolarz is 64-39-12 with a 2.55 GAA, .918 save percentage and 12 shutouts in 142 regular-season games (116 starts) with the Flyers, Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Ducks, Panthers and Maple Leafs, and 4-2 with a 2.43 GAA and an .894 save percentage in eight Stanley Cup Playoff games (seven starts).<\/p>\n

Toronto plays its season opener on Oct. 8 against the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n

NHL.com staff writer Mike Zeisberger contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Stolarz signed a four-year, $15 million contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday. It begins next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-175823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175823","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=175823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}