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Anthony Stolarz
Toronto Maple Leafs Goaltender
Six-foot-six and 248 pounds, a .9257 with four shutouts in 34 games, and the best save percentage on the roster.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | PHI | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 2.07 | 1 | 181 | .928 |
| 2018-19 | PHI/EDM | 18 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 50 | 3.45 | 1 | 503 | .901 |
| 2019-20 | ANA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2.04 | 0 | 36 | .944 |
| 2020-21 | ANA | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 2.20 | 1 | 230 | .926 |
| 2021-22 | ANA | 28 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 67 | 2.67 | 3 | 809 | .917 |
| 2022-23 | ANA | 19 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 51 | 3.73 | 0 | 494 | .897 |
| 2023-24 | FLA | 27 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 51 | 2.03 | 2 | 684 | .925 |
| 2024-25 | TOR | 34 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 71 | 2.14 | 4 | 955 | .926 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 142 | 64 | 39 | 12 | 322 | 2.55 | 12 | 3892 | .917 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
21-8-3 in 34 games with a .9257, a 2.14 average and 4 shutouts, facing 955 shots. It is the best save percentage of any goaltender on this roster and among the best in the league.
The club’s goaltending came in 15.2 goals better than the chances faced, 6th in the league, and he did most of it. He missed time to injury twice and was concussed in the second round of the playoffs.
The Physical Game
6-6 and 248 pounds — the largest goaltender in this edition — and he plays deep and enormous. He sets at the top of the crease and the frame takes almost the entire net away without him moving for it.
The rebound control is good for a goaltender built this way, which is the thing that usually goes wrong at that size. The lateral recovery is the cost — a second chance from the far post is a long way for him — and the glove is better than the style requires. He does not handle the puck especially well.
The Mental Game
He has been a backup for eight seasons on four clubs and has a career .9173 across 142 games, which is a better number than most starters carry.
The record is that he has never played more than 34 games in a season and has been hurt in almost every one of them. Nobody knows what he is across sixty starts and he is 31.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2012 and 142 NHL games with a career .9173, across Philadelphia, Edmonton, Florida and Toronto — and a Stanley Cup ring from Florida in 2024.
He is 31 and signed a four-year extension in 2025. On a club that lost a second-round series in seven games with him concussed for the last two of them, that contract is not a small bet.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“He sets at the top of the crease and the frame takes almost the entire net away without him moving for it.”
“**The rebound control is good for a goaltender built this way**, which is the thing that usually goes wrong at that size.”
“The lateral recovery is the cost — a second chance from the far post is a long way for him — and the glove is better than the style requires.”
“He does not handle the puck especially well.”