Goalie Problem Solved For The Toronto Maple Leafs?
from Luke Fox of Sport\snet,
Could the answer to Kyle Dubas’s most pressing problem have been sitting quietly underneath him the whole time?
If Erik Källgren — learn the name, don’t forget the umlaut, and the K is schilent — is auditioning to be the solution, temporary or otherwise, to the Toronto Maple Leafs circus of follies in the blue paint, well, the kid is off to a fine start.
Källgren followed up last Thursday’s point-saving appearance in emergency relief with something seldom seen in these parts since the calendar flipped to 2022: a quiet, quality performance by the starting goaltender in blue.
The 25-year-old import from the Swedish league would not have been recalled from the AHL Marlies had No. 1 Jack Campbell not gone down with a rib injury last week. Nor would he have been starting this week had No. 2 Petr Mrazek made good on either of his golden opportunities to take the net and run.
In backstopping the Maple Leafs to a 4-0 shutout victory at Scotiabank Arena, Källgren did something neither of Toronto’s NHL-level goalies had been able to do for the past six games: keep the opponent’s goals under four — the franchise’s most consistently porous stretch in more than 16 years.
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