{"id":379006,"date":"2025-12-31T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379006\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:20:08","slug":"joseph-woll-nets-shutout-as-injury-riddled-toronto-maple-leafs-burn-new-jersey-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379006\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Woll nets shutout as injury-riddled Toronto Maple Leafs burn New Jersey Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Joseph Woll<\/a> made 33 saves for his first shutout of the season, while Bobby McMann<\/a>, Nicolas Roy<\/a>, Calle Jarnkrok<\/a> and Matthew Knies<\/a> scored as the injury-riddled Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> blanked the New Jersey Devils<\/a> 4-0 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Playing their third game in four nights since the Christmas break, the Maple Leafs were without William Nylander<\/a> (lower-body injury) for a second straight game, Auston Matthews<\/a> (lower body), Chris Tanev<\/a> (lower body) and Dakota Joshua<\/a>, who remained in Detroit after suffering a kidney injury against the Red Wings on Sunday.<\/p>\n

McMann scored on the power play late in the first period, and Roy added a redirect goal just as another man-advantage situation had expired. McMann tipped the puck to Roy. Nicholas Robertson<\/a> helped set up both goals.<\/p>\n

Jarnkrok scored in the third period for his first goal since Nov. 1. Knies added an empty-netter.<\/p>\n

Woll led the Maple Leafs (18-15-6) to their third win in four outings with his first shutout since Nov. 20, 2024, as the home squad was outshot 33-30.<\/p>\n

The Maple Leafs\u2019 goalie, who has won three in a row, was particularly stellar late in the second period with the Devils pressing on the power play, highlighted by a stop on Jesper Bratt<\/a>\u2019s wrister.<\/p>\n

The Devils (20-17-2) lost their fourth straight before 18,923 at Scotiabank Arena.<\/p>\n

TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n

Leafs: With all the injuries, 31-year-old defenceman Matt Benning, son of former NHLer Brian Benning<\/a>, was promoted from the AHL Toronto Marlies. But the former Boston Bruins<\/a> draft pick did not dress and hasn\u2019t played an NHL game since his time with the San Jose Sharks<\/a> on Oct. 29, 2024.<\/p>\n

Devils: Centre Dawson Mercer<\/a> performed in his 367th consecutive game. In his fifth season, the 24-year-old Carbonear, Nfld., native has yet to miss an outing. Before the game, the patron saint of Newfoundland hockey, Alex Faulkner<\/a>, was honoured during a pre-game scoreboard tribute to Maple Leafs of the past who passed away in 2025. Faulkner was 88.<\/p>\n

KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n

After the Maple Leafs built a 2-0 lead in the second period, Woll made a few acrobatic stops during a late-period power play.<\/p>\n

KEY STAT<\/p>\n

McMann has four goals in his last six games.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Devils: Visit the Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Maple Leafs: Host the Winnipeg Jets<\/a> on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 30, 2025.<\/p>\n

Tim Wharnsby, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Joseph Woll made 33 saves for his first shutout of the season, while Bobby McMann, Nicolas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-379006","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\/379006","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=379006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}