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Scott Wedgewood making a poke check or puckhandling play for the Dallas Stars, reaching toward an opposing Carolina Hurric...

Scott Wedgewood on Importance of “Counting Hands”

Dallas Stars goalie Scott Wedgewood had great advice on a recent episode of the InGoal Radio Podcast on how to stay engaged in games and improve your play reading.

Rather than counting down the clock or focusing on shots, Wedgewood counts the handedness of the opposing players, and he does it throughout the game.

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Wedgewood's exact count — lefties versus righties, where he checks it, and the recent in-game moment where that number made a tough read simple — is in the next paragraph.

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