{"id":307586,"date":"2025-11-26T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/307586\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:47:09","slug":"goalie-scott-wedgewood-added-to-canadas-list-of-possible-olympic-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/307586\/","title":{"rendered":"Goalie Scott Wedgewood added to Canada\u2019s list of possible Olympic participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/scott-wedgewood\/8475809\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/scott-wedgewood\/8475809\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Wedgewood<\/a> has been added to Canada\u2019s list of possible Olympic participants for next year\u2019s Olympic Games in Milano-Cortina.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scott Wedgewood has been added to Canada\u2019s list for possible Olympic participation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/1993523878333976763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1988000061658128393?s=20\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1988000061658128393?s=20\">reported earlier this month<\/a> that Team Canada had trimmed their list of players being considered to between 35 and 40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 33-year-old Wedgewood has an NHL-leading 13 wins this season along with a 2.09 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage in 17 games so far this season for the Avs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He split last season between the Avalanche and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>, arriving in Colorado in a trade last November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Brampton, Ont., native has also spent time with the Arizona Coyotes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> in addition to the Avs and Devils throughout his eight-year NHL career. He has a career 2.80 goals-against average and .907 save percentage in 171 regular season games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Team Canada general manager Doug Armstrong must submit the 25-player roster on Dec. 31 and said in an interview on Nov. 10 that the list of potential players has been shortened to a number in the high 30s or low 40s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2026 Olympic tournament begins on Feb. 11. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche goaltender Scott Wedgewood has been added to Canada\u2019s list of possible Olympic participants for next year\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-307586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}