Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

This is the 2025-26 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →

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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.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2021-22TOR4310112.751123.911
2022-23TOR7610152.160219.931
2023-24TOR2512111722.940772.907
2024-25TOR42271411112.7311216.909
2025-26 so far
Career78482722092.7422330.910

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.