He was kept off the ice Sunday.
Sure, the club’s starting goaltender played well and won a hockey game in each of the previous nights. But so did the skaters in front of him.
“I’ve never seen young goalies get days off like this when the team is out there grinding,” Ryan Reaves, tongue in cheek, told reporters following Tuesday’s practice. “That’s the new NHL, I guess.”
Ironically, Toronto’s most heavily padded men are getting the bubble-wrap treatment this season. And the management of Woll’s workload has only grown more meticulous since his counterpart, Anthony Stolarz, got sidelined five-plus weeks ago with a knee injury.
At night they’re launching their bodies in the path of 100-mile-an-hour…