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Joseph Woll
Toronto Maple Leafs Goaltender
27 wins and a .9087 in 42 games, and the first full season of his career.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | TOR | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2.75 | 1 | 123 | .911 |
| 2022-23 | TOR | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 2.16 | 0 | 219 | .931 |
| 2023-24 | TOR | 25 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 72 | 2.94 | 0 | 772 | .907 |
| 2024-25 | TOR | 42 | 27 | 14 | 1 | 111 | 2.73 | 1 | 1216 | .909 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 78 | 48 | 27 | 2 | 209 | 2.74 | 2 | 2330 | .910 |
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
27-14-1 in 42 games with a .9087, a 2.73 average and 1 shutout, facing 1,216 shots. It is the first season of his career in which he has played more than thirty games.
The club’s goaltending finished 6th in the league at 15.2 goals better than the chances faced, most of it from the other man on the depth chart. A .9087 across 42 starts on a 108-point club is a solid rather than a good season.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 212 and the technique is athletic rather than blocking. He plays a conventional depth, he is square more often than not, and he relies on quickness in the crease rather than on covering the net.
The glove is genuinely very good and it is the first thing anybody notices. The lateral recovery is quick. The rebound control is the ordinary part and behind a club that was 15th at suppressing chances it was tested regularly. He handles the puck adequately.
The Mental Game
He has been injured in every season of his career — hip, ankle, high ankle, and a lower-body injury that ended his 2024 playoffs after one game — and has never been available for a full year.
He was very good in the 2025 playoffs until he was not, and he took the crease back in the second round after his partner was concussed. Forty-two games is the largest sample anybody has.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2016 out of Boston College, and 78 NHL games with a career .9103, all of it here.
He is 27. He has been the club’s starter and its backup in the same season more than once, and he has never once been the reason a series was lost. What nobody knows is what he looks like across sixty games, because he has never played them.
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
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
- 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 plays a conventional depth, he is square more often than not, and he relies on quickness in the crease rather than on covering the net.”
“The lateral recovery is quick.”
“**The rebound control is the ordinary part** and behind a club that was 15th at suppressing chances it was tested regularly.”
“He handles the puck adequately.”
“**He has been the club's starter and its backup in the same season more than once**, and he has never once been the reason a series was lost.”