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1st Rnd '25 Playoffs: The Battle of Ontario V - More of the Same - LFG!

All fun and games until his knee goes out on him and we're without him in the middle of the 2nd round.

This is a guy who has spent most of his career struggling to stay healthy playing 4x a month, and we're trying to push him into playing 4x in a week when we have an above average backup ready to go.

I still don't get this. If you're not willing to run Woll out there when you're up 3-0, then why are you willing to run him out there if you're up 3-1? This would be dumb even if our 1A wasn't a guy who struggles to play more than 30 games in a season.
 
MindzEye said:
All fun and games until his knee goes out on him and we're without him in the middle of the 2nd round.

This is a guy who has spent most of his career struggling to stay healthy playing 4x a month, and we're trying to push him into playing 4x in a week when we have an above average backup ready to go.

I still don't get this. If you're not willing to run Woll out there when you're up 3-0, then why are you willing to run him out there if you're up 3-1? This would be dumb even if our 1A wasn't a guy who struggles to play more than 30 games in a season.
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Ya but that’s why you have Woll. If stolarz goes down we still feel good.

But when healthy he’s been one of the 2 best goalies in the league this year. Why sit that in the playoffs?
 
leafman101 said:
Ya but that’s why you have Woll. If stolarz goes down we still feel good.

But when healthy he’s been one of the 2 best goalies in the league this year. Why sit that in the playoffs?
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Why sit it in the playoffs? Because there's a high chance of injury. If we're cool with Woll replacing him when the likely thing happens from over playing him, then why aren't we cool with just running Woll out there when it's 3-0? Stolarz isn't a guy who could/should be expected to get run out there every game between now and the finals, it's a long road and we're going to need both goalies whether we break the first one and rely on the second one, or are smart and tactical about it and play Stolarz when we actually need the extra edge he provides.
 
Way overthinking it IMO. He can get hurt whether he plays every game, or 3 out of every 4. He’s one of their best players. If he’s healthy he should play.
 
Woll has shown the ability to kill it coming in cold. Once they decided not to go 1 for 1 I think you ride out stoly. He’s on like a 13-0 940sv% run or whatever.
 
I would have liked to see Woll in game 2, though i didn't really expect it.

Brooby's chosen the guy he thinks is better and isn't going to pick and choose games to take him out. it'll have to be performance or health driven.

I would've really liked to see him get a look at playoffs Woll right away tho.
 
leafman101 said:
Way overthinking it IMO.
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Nah, not even close to overthinking it. This is just thinking it through.


leafman101 said:
He can get hurt whether he plays every game, or 3 out of every 4.
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Fatigue due to overuse is a massive contributor to injury though. Sure, he can get run into by someone in any game but for things like pulls, strains, and tears, workload is a massive contributor to those. If we can reduce his workload, we can reduce the chances of that happening.

There's a reason he's gone his entire career being a good goalie that doesn't play a lot. Acknowledging that and load managing him isn't overthinking. Fuck, we watched our basketball team load manage their way to a title not that long ago, this is basic sports science, not particle physics.

The Panthers needed 24 games over ~65 days last year to win their cup. The most Stolarz has ever played in a similar time frame before this season was 13 games in 54 days, that ended with him missing a month with a knee injury (no surgery, but he missed a month)

His heaviest workload of his career over a similar stretch was this season where we played him 17 games in 64 days. That stretch of course ended when we had to shut him down to have another knee surgery.

This isn't overthinking it in the least. This is just being mildly aware of the physical limitations of the player we're talking about.

Even a 24 game in 65 day workload is kind of underselling it because the finals is a much lighter workload than the first 3 rounds. There's about a week off before the finals and then 2 days off between most of the games. Florida played 17 games in 32 days to get to the finals. Stolarz simply can't handle that workload or anything particularly close to it.
 
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