It wouldn\u2019t be a massive surprise if there is a goalie switch. The Avalanche did it plenty during the regular season, when Wedgewood had 43 starts, Blackwood 36. Wedgewood was 31-6-6 with a 2.02 GAA, .921 save percentage and four shutouts while Blackwood was 23-10-2 with a 2.51 GAA, .904 save percentage and three shutouts.<\/p>\n
The two combined to win the William M. Jennings Trophy, presented annually to the goaltender(s) who plays a minimum of 25 games for the team allowing the fewest goals during the regular season, for allowing a League-low 203 goals, including those deciding a shootout.<\/p>\n
\u201c(They\u2019re) both good pros, hard workers. They take the time when they\u2019re not starting to sharpen up their game. They both want to help our team win, they\u2019re both capable of helping our team win,\u201d Bednar said of the goalies, who did skate on Sunday with defenseman Josh Manson<\/a> (upper body) and forward Joel Kiviranta<\/a> (undisclosed), who are both recovering from injuries. Center Zakhar Bardakov<\/a>, who has been a healthy scratch thus far in the postseason, also skated with the group.<\/p>\n \u201cI think when you see a guy going good, you want to keep playing him and if the game starts to drop off a bit, you go to the next guy and he\u2019s perfectly ready and capable of stepping in and helping our team win. Regardless of which guy it is, they seem to come in better and stronger after a break.\u201d<\/p>\n Blackwood is the one coming in off a break, and he looked good despite not playing for nearly a month. The only goal he allowed, from Minnesota defenseman Brock Faber<\/a> at 13:31 of the second period, was a bit of a strange one. Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a>‘s snap shot from the left circle rebounded off Blackwood and then bounced off Faber’s right leg into the net.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought Blackwood was good,\u201d Bednar said following Saturday\u2019s game. \u201cIt\u2019s a little bit of a tough break, bad angle shot, hits him, does his job, saves it and it goes back off Faber\u2019s pads. It\u2019s the only goal he gave up. He made some big saves in there, gave us a good chance. We\u2019ll talk about it and make a decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wouldn\u2019t be a massive surprise if there is a goalie switch. The Avalanche did it plenty during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-662979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662979","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=662979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}