{"id":237639,"date":"2025-10-24T19:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237639\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:39:07","slug":"maple-leafs-goaltender-joseph-woll-rejoining-team-following-personal-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237639\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll rejoining team following personal absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goaltender Joseph Will is rejoining the team and will resume on-ice participation and other team activities as part of a return-to-play process, the Leafs <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/1981798046330761716\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old took a leave of absence back on Sept. 23 to attend to a personal family matter. <\/p>\n<p>The Leafs did not provide a timeline for when Woll would be ready for game action.<\/p>\n<p>Woll was an important piece in Toronto&#8217;s crease last season, playing a career-high 42 games with a 27-14-1 record, a 2.73 goals-against average and a .909 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Though he entered the post-season as the backup, Woll started six games for the Maple Leafs after Stolarz suffered a head injury in Game 1 of the second-round series against the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Through his seven playoff appearances, Woll picked up a 3-4 record with a 3.56 GAA and a .886 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Originally selected by the Maple Leafs 62nd overall in the third round of the 2016 Draft, Woll has made 78 career appearances in the NHL and has a career 48-27-2 record with a 2.74 GAA and a .910 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>With Woll sidelined, Stolarz has been pressed into duty as the main starter and he has a 2-3-1 record with a 3.01 goals-against average and a .894 save percentage through six games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goaltender Joseph Will is rejoining the team and will resume on-ice participation and other team activities as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-237639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}