{"id":322100,"date":"2025-12-03T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322100\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:02:08","slug":"avalanches-scott-wedgewood-leaves-game-in-second-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322100\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Scott Wedgewood Leaves Game in Second Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Wedgewood exited Tuesday\u2019s game against the Vancouver Canucks midway through the second period with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe tightened up a little bit. His back. Thought we\u2019d take him out. Better safe than sorry,\u201d head coach Jared Bednar said. \u201cNothing too serious at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradohockeynow.com\/2025\/12\/02\/the-aftermath-avalanche-avoid-serious-injury-in-latest-victory-at-ball-arena\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Aftermath: Avalanche Avoid Serious Injury in Latest Victory At Ball Arena<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche and Canucks were tied at 1-1 when the change came, during a TV timeout. Mackenzie Blackwood entered in his place as Wedgewood went down the tunnel to the dressing room. Wedgewood faced 11 shots and made 10 saves.<\/p>\n<p>With Blackwood in goal, Colorado scored twice in the final seven minutes of the second period to win 3-1. Blackwood also made 10 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Bednar said that Wedgewood will travel with the team on Wednesday, although it\u2019s not yet determined if the Avs will need to bring a third goalie.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mackenzie Blackwood is in goal for the Avs. Not sure what happened. Wedgewood is not on the bench<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aarif Deen (@runwriteAarif) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/runwriteAarif\/status\/1996057167556919632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/colhockeynow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CHNS-Tip-Jar.png\" alt=\"Contribute to CHN's travel and support local journalism!\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Wedgewood exited Tuesday\u2019s game against the Vancouver Canucks midway through the second period with an upper-body injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17358,49,48,758,60,76227,126979,82],"class_list":["post-322100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-avalanche","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-featured","tag-mackenzie-blackwood","tag-scott-wedgewood","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322100","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=322100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}