If the Toronto Maple Leafs’ extra time loss on Saturday night wasn’t bad enough, Anthony Stolarz put a few logs on the hearth forming in town by calling out his teammates in his post-game press conference. The recently signed goaltender, Stolarz, may not have called any of those players by name. Still, when watching the extra time winner, it could lead on one to consider that one in every of his comments was about one in every of the Maple Leafs’ star players, William Nylander.
“I mean, quite a lot of guys have been here for some time. Time beyond regulation, you may’t let someone beat you up the ice there and gets a clear-cut breakaway,” Stolarz said. “A minute left, you desire to be on the ice in that situation you gotta work hard … It cost us some extent.”
The reader may be the judge of who Stolarz was directing his frustration towards, nevertheless it was Nylander who let Josh Mahura beat him up the ice and rating. What makes it worse is that Mahura has just 11 goals in 260 NHL games, so he is way from an elite scorer. The difference between Mahura’s work ethic and Nylander’s disinterest in helping out his goaltender was striking after hearing Stolarz’s comments.
There was some frustration in Stolarz’s game all night after the Seattle Kraken made contact with him on a few occasions. Those frustrations might’ve boiled over within the post-game press conference, and he might walk back a few of those comments in the approaching days. Nonetheless, whether he meant to do it or not, Anthony Stolarz addressed an elephant that has been within the Maple Leafs’ room for many of the current era.