{"id":458746,"date":"2024-12-17T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=458746"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:02:01","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-star-goalie-injury-puts-him-out-a-few-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/12\/17\/toronto-maple-leafs-star-goalie-injury-puts-him-out-a-few-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs Star Goalie Injury Puts Him Out a Few Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/12\/17\/toronto-maple-leafs-struggle-against-specific-group-of-teams\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> will have to do without a star goalie for the time being. News emerged that Leafs goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stolaan01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Stolarz<\/a>, who <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/mapleleafs\/player\/anthony-stolarz-8476932\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last played<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/12\/15\/ducks-trade-signals-future-focus\/\" target=\"_self\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> on Dec. 12, will &#8220;miss four to six weeks with a lower-body injury&#8221; according to <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/maple-leafs-goalie-anthony-stolarz-expected-to-miss-4-6-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sportsnet Staff<\/a>.\u00a0The Maple Leafs goalie left that game with the injury after making seven saves on eight shots in the first period. TSN <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1869062934212845571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> on X this morning that Maple Leafs General Manager Brad Treliving gave an update.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anthony Stolarz will undergo a procedure tomorrow in New York to remove a loose body in his knee. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s expected to miss 4-6 weeks. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kqu7UAeFCt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/kqu7UAeFCt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1869064214092132763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MRI came back and revealed no structural damage. He will go undergo a procedure to remove a loose body within his knee,&#8221; the post said. The &#8220;loose body&#8221; apparently looks like a pebble. TSNs <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1869064214092132763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a> from five minutes later said the procedure will take place in New York.<\/p>\n<h2>Maple Leafs Goalie Injury Background<\/h2>\n<p>Previously, following the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/gamecenter\/ana-vs-tor\/2024\/12\/12\/2024020459\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3-2 win<\/a> against the Ducks,\u00a0Stolarz had been ruled out for the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/mapleleafs\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weekend games<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/11\/23\/red-wings-bruins-predictions-nhl-nov-23\/\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/12\/16\/nhl-rumours-future-of-buffalo-sabres-forward\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres,<\/a> on Saturday and Sunday. This was according to <a  href=\"https:\/\/thehockeynews.com\/nhl\/toronto-maple-leafs\/latest-news\/maple-leafs-goalie-anthony-stolarz-lands-on-injured-reserve-out-until-at-least-stars-matchup\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Alter of\u00a0<\/a><em>The Hockey News\u00a0<\/em>on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/mapleleafs\/player\/anthony-stolarz-8476932\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">17 games played this season<\/a>, all of which he started, Stolarz has nine wins, one shutout, a .927 save percentage and 2.15 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p>Last playoffs, he became a Stanley Cup champion with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/12\/16\/nhl-predictions-dec-16-florida-panthers-vs-edmonton-oilers\/\" target=\"_self\">Florida Panthers<\/a>,\u00a0before signing as a free agent with the Maple Leafs on July 1 of this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Stolarz&#8217; History of Knee and Lower-Body Injuries<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, Stolarz is not a stranger to lower-body injuries. In 2017, he missed a lot of time due to surgeries &#8220;to repair a medial collateral ligament tear in his right knee and a torn left meniscus, This injury happened in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/12\/17\/anthony-stolarz-injured-carter-hart-recalled\/\" target=\"_self\">December 2018.<\/a>\u00a0 That particular lower-body injury that put him out a month. A more recent example took place in May 2021, when he suffered an ankle injury at the IIHF World Championship, which put him out for the rest of that event.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs will have to do without a star goalie for the time being. News emerged that Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz, who last played against the Anaheim Ducks on Dec. 12, will &#8220;miss four to six weeks with a lower-body injury&#8221; according to Sportsnet Staff.\u00a0The Maple Leafs goalie left that game with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5243,"featured_media":458440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4547,6671,4548,18],"tags":[1169,1576,5951],"class_list":["post-458746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-nhl","category-leafs","tag-anthony-stolarz","tag-injury","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458768,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458746\/revisions\/458768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}