Joseph Woll isn't thinking about all the work that got him to this point. All the Maple Leafs rookie goaltender is focusing on is keeping his team's season alive.
Toronto will turn to Woll for Game 4 of its second-round playoff series against the Florida Panthers staring down a 3-0 deficit with No.
1 option Ilya Samsonov out due to an upper-body injury. "Right now, it's straight ahead," Woll said following Tuesday's practice at FLA Live Arena. "There's time for reflection.
I don't think that time is now. The time right now is to trust everything I've done and everything this team has done. "As long as I trust that and have some faith, I think anything's possible here." The Leafs are certainly hoping so after digging themselves a deep hole after beating the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games to advance in the post-season for the first time since 2004. WATCH | Leafs fall to Panthers in OT of Game 3: Toronto hasn't played to its standard against Florida thanks to key mistakes and an offence that's found the back of the net just six times — including zero goals from Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares and William Nylander. "We have a good group of guys on the ice," Woll said. "[But] it's a special group of human beings.