Joseph Woll (Boston College) has saved the Toronto Maple Leafs playoff season so far. Now he's one more win away from ending the Boston Bruins' 2023-24 campaign.
Woll, 25, made 22 stops last night, and came 0.1 seconds away from a shutout, as Toronto edged visiting Boston, 2-1, in Game 6 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series to tie that series at three games apiece. He had 27 stops in a 2-1 overtime victory at Boston's TD Garden in Game 5. Combined with his first-ever NHL playoff win against Florida in last year's Stanley Cup Playoffs, Woll is the first goaltender in NHL history to earn his first three career postseason victories in elimination games.
Woll, a 6-foot-3 netminder from Dardenne Prairie, Mo., is 23-13-1 with a 2.65 goals-against average in 39 career NHL regular-season games, all with Toronto, who drafted him 52nd overall in 2016. He went 47-45-8 with six shutouts in three seasons at BC (2016-2019).
Game 7 will be tomorrow night at Boston (8 p.m. ET, ABC TV).
ADDENDUM: Woll was sidelined by injury and did not play in Toronto's season-ending 2-1 overtime loss at Boston in Game 7. Boston will now face Florida in the Eastern Conference semifinals starting on Monday.
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