{"id":324216,"date":"2025-12-03T04:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324216\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T04:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:23:08","slug":"avalanches-scott-wedgewood-leaves-vs-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324216\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Scott Wedgewood leaves vs. Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/scott-wedgewood\/837592f3-a555-478d-a4bd-0940c948a984\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"837592f3-a555-478d-a4bd-0940c948a984\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Scott Wedgewood<\/a>&#8216;s bid to make Canada&#8217;s Olympic roster may have hit a wrinkle. <\/p>\n<p>The goaltender left Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Vancouver Canucks during a TV timeout in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado later ruled out Wedgewood for the remainder of the game due to an upper-body injury, although it&#8217;s unclear when or how it occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Blackwood took to the crease in relief. <\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old is putting up career-best numbers in his second year with the Avalanche, with a 2.08 goals-against average. His .921 save percentage across 18 games sits at the top of the NHL. <\/p>\n<p>Wedgewood was acquired by the Avalanche ahead of last season&#8217;s trade deadline. The two sides re-upped on a one-year, $2.5 million contract that will kick in next season. <\/p>\n<p>With the options between the pipes slim, Team Canada&#8217;s top brass has taken note of Wedgewood&#8217;s performance on the NHL&#8217;s top team, placing him firmly in the mix to nab a spot on the 2026 Olympic roster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Wedgewood&#8216;s bid to make Canada&#8217;s Olympic roster may have hit a wrinkle. The goaltender left Tuesday&#8217;s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-324216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}