Could Scott Wedgewood’s incredible start earn him a spot on Team Canada? ‘It’s really cool just to be in the conversation’

Maybe there is still time for Scott Wedgewood s great start to become a storybook tale Wedgewood s star turn has been one of the most of surprising developments at the start of the - NHL season The goaltender has helped the Colorado Avalanche to the top of the league standings But what if this could lead to something bigger like say a spot on Canada s Winter Olympics squad Hoping for it obviously I don t know how it all works Wedgewood announced It would be something cool It s really cool just to be in the conversation Just thinking about being a Canadian kid growing up and all that stuff it was everyone s dream Wedgewood leads the NHL with wins He leads all qualified Canadian goalies in save percentage and goals against average While this is the majority exposure Wedgewood has ever received in his career the quality of his play has not just come out of nowhere It s the quantity that has changed Wedgewood s save percentage since the start of the - season is third among Canadian goalies with at least NHL games played behind only ex-Avs netminder Darcy Kuemper and Logan Thompson who are both at Even if we take out the red-hot start to this season his save percentage from the past four seasons is and tied for fourth among Canadian netminders with Adin Hill jumping ahead of him The truth of it is if you demanded anybody in the summer they d laugh at you right Wedgewood disclosed But I think the things that I ve really built with my championship are very high-end The ability that I have the awareness the situational positioning all that stuff I do at a high level I just haven t had the opportunity to consistently put that on display The issue is Wedgewood s never played more than games in a season and until the start of this year he s never had the chance to show he can handle the workload of a No goaltender He s played in games since the start of the - campaign with starts That noted he is - - in games since joining the Avalanche with a save percentage and a GAA He s proven he can excel in situations where he faces a lot of shots and when the Avs are dominating and he has to wait for the scoring chances against him His reputation as a great locker room presence preceded his arrival in Denver Jordan Binnington who backstopped Canada in February to a Four Nations Face-Off win has starts since He also led the St Louis Blues to a Stanley Cup in and now has the Four Nations tournament on his resume as well Scott Wedgewood is enjoying his moment and the Avalanche can t stop winning during it This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e details if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i