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TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS (13-6-1 – 27 Points) at
NEW YORK ISLANDERS (5-8-2 – 12 Points)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021
1 2 3 FINAL
TORONTO 1 0 2 3
NEW YORK 0 0 0 0


ON THE SCORESHEET

  • Mitch Marner scored shorthanded for Toronto at 3:31 of the first period. Marner marked the Maple Leafs’ first shorthanded goal of the season and the second shorthanded goal of his
    NHL career. Marner scored his second goal of the game at 13:29 of the third period. Marner posted his first multi-goal game of the season and the 12th multi-goal game of his NHL career.
  • Ondřej Kaše scored for Toronto at 2:00 of the third period. Kaše marked his fifth goal of the season.
  • Jake Muzzin recorded the primary assist on Marner’s shorthanded goal. Muzzin posted his fifth assist of the season.
  • David Kämpf registered the primary assist on Kaše’s goal. Kämpf notched his third assist of the season.
  • Nick Ritchie recorded the secondary assist on Kaše’s goal. Ritchie registered his third assist of the season.
  • Michael Bunting posted the primary assist on Marner’s second goal of the game. Bunting recorded his fifth assist of the season.
  • Joseph Woll stopped all 20 shots he faced in tonight’s victory. Woll posted his first NHL career shutout.
    SHOTS ON GOAL (5-on-5 in brackets)
    1st 2nd 3rd TOTAL
    NEW YORK 6 (4) 7 (6) 7 (7) 20 (17)
    TORONTO 12 (11) 13 (11) 15 (12) 40 (34)
    SHOT ATTEMPTS (5-on-5 in brackets)
    1st 2nd 3rd TOTAL
    NEW YORK 17 (13) 15 (13) 14 (14) 46 (40)
    TORONTO 21 (20) 22 (16) 20 (13) 63 (49)
    ON THE ROAD AGAIN
  • The Maple Leafs are 4-3-0 on the road this season.
  • Toronto’s all-time record is 75-68-7-10 in 160 games against the New York Islanders and 32-38-3-6 in
    79 games played in New York.
  • Toronto is 9-4-1 against the Eastern Conference this season and 3-3-1 against the Metropolitan
    Division this season.
    MAPLE LEAFS LEADERS
    Shots 6 (Matthews)
    Shot Attempts 8 (Matthews)
    Faceoff Wins 11 (Tavares)
    Faceoff Win Percentage 100% (Marner– 1 won, 0 lost)
    Hits 3 (Muzzin, Ritchie)
    Blocked Shots 2 (Muzzin, Liljegren, Sandin, Brodie)
    Takeaways 1 (Marner, Matthews, Kämpf, Tavares)
    TOI 24:37 (Rielly)
    Power Play TOI 3:48 (Matthews)
    Shorthanded TOI 3:06 (Kämpf)
    Shifts 23 (Muzzin, Rielly)
    5-on-5 Shot Attempt Percentage 78.26% (Bunting – 18 for, 5 against)
    RECORD WHEN…
  • The Maple Leafs were 0-for-3 on the power play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill tonight.
  • Toronto is 8-1-0 when scoring the first goal of the game.
  • The Maple Leafs are 6-1-0 when leading after one period and 9-0-0 when leading after two periods.
  • Toronto is 9-3-1 when outshooting their opponent.
  • The Maple Leafs are 1-0-0 in Sunday games and 2-2-0 in the second game of a back-to-back.
    OF NOTE…
  • Per NHL PR, Joseph Woll (23 years, 132 days) turned aside all 20 shots he faced and became the
    sixth Maple Leafs goaltender in the past 30 years to record his first career shutout at age 23 or
    younger. The others: Garret Sparks (22 years, 155 days: Nov. 30, 2015), James Reimer (22 years,
    325 days: Feb. 3, 2011), Marcel Cousineau (23 years, 244 days: Dec. 30, 1996), Felix Potvin (21
    years, 214 days: Jan. 23, 1993) and Peter Ing (21 years, 275 days: Jan. 28, 1991).
  • Per NHL PR, Joseph Woll became the fifth goaltender in Maple Leafs history to earn a win in each of
    his first two or more career appearances, joining Damian Rhodes (6 GP: 1990-91 to 1993-94), Frank
    McCool (6 GP: 1944-45), Jiri Crha (3 GP: 1979-80) and Mike Palmateer (3 GP: 1976-77).
  • Timothy Liljegren and Rasmus Sandin were on the ice for a team-high 21 Toronto shot attemptsfor at 5-on-5.
  • Michael Bunting finished the game with a team-high 5-on-5 shot attempt percentage of 78.26
    percent (18 for, 5 against).
    UPCOMING GAMES:
    Nov. 24 Leafs at Los Angeles STAPLES Center 10:00 pm ET
    Nov. 26 Leafs at San Jose SAP Arena at San Jose 10:30 pm ET
    Nov. 28 Leafs at Anaheim Honda Center 8:00 pm ET
    Dec. 1 Leafs vs. Colorado Scotiabank Arena 7:30 pm ET
    Dec. 4 Leafs at Minnesota Xcel Energy Center 7:00 pm ET
    Dec. 5 Leafs at Winnipeg Canada Life Centre 8:00 pm ET
    Stats reflect official NHL stats at the time of distribution.
    POSTGAME QUOTES:
    HEAD COACH SHELDON KEEFE
    Q: Thoughts on tonight’s game:
    Sheldon Keefe: “I just thought it was a very sound effort from our guys all the way through. I thought we
    played hard. It’s not an easy building to play in. I thought at the beginning the fans were engaged and the
    Islanders are going to play hard and be competitive and I thought our guys matched that and played
    through it. Just played a really sound game with great goaltending.
    Q: On the shorthanded goal and whether it was the product of a good penalty kill as of late or
    catching the other team off guard:
    Sheldon Keefe: “I think it’s more just catching them off guard and getting one of those breaks. It’s
    something where, I think when your penalty kill is feeling it, they are confident, and they tend to hold onto
    the puck a little bit longer and sometimes they can catch teams like that. I thought there were a couple of
    times just before the goal when you saw the guys being patient with it and looking for an opportunity to
    make a play. It was a huge goal for us and more importantly it was a huge kill at an important time of the
    game.”
    MITCH MARNER
    On tonight’s game:
    Mitch Marner: Yeah it was good, right from the drop of the puck we were moving our feet, creating
    scoring chances from the start and rolling well. Every line was contributing in a different way on the ice.
    That’s how we want our starts to be. Obviously after last game we weren’t happy with how that happened
    and thought tonight we came in and played a good game. Woll made some big saves for us but liked how
    right from the drop of the puck we were throttle down and going at them.
    On his shorthanded goal tonight:
    Mitch Marner: I think it starts with Kämpf, getting that puck down low and having three guys on his back
    and working extremely hard to get that puck back to our d-men with time. Then saw it go over the Jake
    with three men down and as I was coming on the ice I realized the far side was open and he made the
    play to me so I just tried to make a play off of it.
    JOSEPH WOLL
    On his first career NHL shutout:
    Joseph Woll: It’s pretty cool but I think at the end of the day the biggest thing is that we won the game
    and just to see how well we played, coming out and putting up 40 plus shots and playing a hard defensive
    game all the way through and see how that translates to offense for us was pretty sweet. I’m just happy to
    be able to share it with this group.
    On the team eliminating secondary scoring opportunities in front of him:
    Joseph Woll: Whenever a goalie gets a shutout it’s definitely not fair to just say it was all him or even
    mostly him. I think it really starts with how the team plays and it was unbelievable.
    JAKE MUZZIN
    On tonight’s effort:
    Jake Muzzin: I thought it was a pretty solid effort from start to finish. We focused on some things that we
    needed to improve on in our back-to-backs and I thought we responded well and got a shutout for Woll
    who played great, and got his first shutout, so that’s awesome.
    On what it means for Woll to be getting meaningful time with the team and getting his first
    shutout:
    Jake Muzzin: Yeah, I think it will give him some confidence. He played well in his first game and played
    well again tonight so very happy for him.

Leafs prospect Woll ‘learned a lot’ in first year of pro hockey — Toronto Sun

The news was didn’t catch Joseph Woll off guard, but that didn’t make it much easier to digest. Read More

Leafs prospect Woll ‘learned a lot’ in first year of pro hockey — Toronto Sun

The news was didn’t catch Joseph Woll off guard, but that didn’t make it much easier to digest.

When the American Hockey League officially pulled the plug on the remainder of the 2019-20 regular season and the Calder Cup playoffs on Monday because of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the AHL rookie year of the Toronto Marlies goaltender was done.

“It has been a weird couple of months with not knowing exactly what was going to happen,” Woll said on Tuesday from his parents’ home in St. Louis. “But now that it’s over, it’s tough. I wanted to be able to see some of the guys again.

“With pro hockey, you never know what the team is going to look like next year. At the same time, it’s good to have an answer and be out of the unknown. We can take a step back and focus on the summer now.”

Before he completely sets his concentration on the off-season and eventually returning to Toronto to resume his hockey career, the definite conclusion of the season allowed Woll to look back and make a few judgments on how it unfolded for him.

A third-round pick by the Leafs in 2016 — he was taken 61 picks after Toronto announced Auston Matthews’ name first overall in Buffalo — Woll made the transition to the AHL after three seasons at Boston College, appearing in 32 games for the Marlies.

Woll, who turns 22 on July 12, described his season as a bit of a roller-coaster. He had a record of 11-16-3, an .880 save percentage and a 3.75 goals-against average; the Marlies were nine points out of a playoff spot in the North Division when play was halted on March 12.

Not the greatest statistics line, to be sure, but Woll wasn’t asking for the world in his first run at the minor-pro level.

“I learned a lot, to be honest,” Woll said. “I think I dealt with a lot of adversity and so did the team.

“It was different than any hockey I had played before. Across the board, everyone is more skilled, for the most part stronger, faster. It can be a little overwhelming at first. The way players see the ice, their ability to make plays, was something I had to adjust to.

“It really taught me to have a really short mindset and focus on going into the next game, work on keeping your identity with all the ups and downs.”

The Leafs aren’t necessarily set in goal for the long haul — Frederik Andersen’s contract expires after the 2020-21 season and Jack Campbell’s is done after 2021-22 — but it’s not a managerial group in Toronto that will rush anyone, Marlies goaltenders included.

Kasimir Kaskisuo is eligible for free agency, and the Leafs are hopeful that Ian Scott can make a full recovery from hip surgery.

When we asked Woll about the role of patience in his development, he mentioned a pair of goalies, Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers and and Jordan Binnington of the St. Louis Blues, who have taken different routes to the National Hockey League.

“That’s one thing around goalies, the stigma that they might take a little longer to develop, but I think it’s unique to every player,” Woll said. “You see someone like Carter Hart go right into the NHL and be so successful, and you see a guy like Jordan Binnington who had to grind and spend his time in the minors.

“I’m just trying to find what my path is. It’s not like I’m trying to streamline it like Carter or necessarily wait for years like Jordan. I’m keeping my head down and working, and when it’s my time, hopefully I will be ready.”

Like everyone else involved in the sport, Woll doesn’t know when we will see hockey games again. He enjoyed all aspects of his first year in Toronto — Woll lived with Marlies teammate Kristians Rubins in a condo not far from the Coca-Cola Coliseum — but, like he is with his on-ice growth, he will be patient.

“You have to go with the flow of it,” Woll said. “I’ll be training like the season is starting like normal but I’m also prepared (for the idea) it could be a pretty long summer. You just have to make sure you’re prepared for whatever comes.”

MIND GAMES

Joseph Woll isn’t about to take a mental break from hockey during the off-season.

“The biggest thing I want to spend time on is my mind and focus more internally this summer,” the Toronto Marlies goaltender and Maple Leafs prospect said.

“When things don’t go your way and you’re not happy with the game you played, it’s important to look at it from a long-run perspective and looking at how that can make you better. It’s just about being rational and remembering that I’m still young and this was my first year in the American Hockey League and there is a long road ahead. I think that’s the right thing to look to.”

Not that Woll is going to ignore the physical side of keeping his body ready to return to Toronto.

“I’ve been training a lot and the Leafs and the Marlies have a lot of good virtual programs they have had us working with,” Woll said.

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