Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Anthony Stolarz is the projected starter for Wednesday’s game against the Utah Mammoth. Stolarz was held out of Tuesday’s practice for maintenance.

Stolarz has posted a 5-4-1 record with an .896 save percentage in 10 starts for the Maple Leafs this season, taking on the majority of the workload. The 31-year-old goaltender has been a vocal leader for the team, and implored himself to improve after the Maple Leafs rallied to a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday, after trailing 3-0 at the second intermission.

“Yeah, it’s not up to our standard, myself included,” Stolarz said postgame. “You look at eight shots, and just kind of allow them to go east-west. We knew coming into the second intermission that we kind of had to wake up, put our feet down here in the third.”

Brandon Carlo also received a maintenance day Tuesday, but is expected to play Wednesday. Carlo was the first player on the ice ahead of the optional skate, Kevin McGran of the Toronto Star reports.

Steven Lorentz and Scott Laughton are both expected to return to the lineup, after fully participating in Tuesday’s practice. Lorentz suffered an upper-body injury during an October 30 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, while Laughton hasn’t played this season after suffering a lower-body injury during an October 3 preseason game against the Detroit Red Wings.

“They bring this energy, they play a straightforward, simple game,” Berube said of Lorentz and Laughton via Terry Koshan of the Toronto Sun. “They do a lot of the dirty work for us out there. When it’s not going right, these guys can go change the momentum of a game.”