Scott Wedgewood

Scott Wedgewood grew up in Brampton, Ontario, and was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the third round of the 2010 NHL Draft, 24th pick in that round. The left-catching goaltender stands 6'2" and weighs 201 pounds. Now 33 years old, he currently wears number 41 for the Colorado Avalanche.

Over 197 NHL regular-season games in his career, Wedgewood has posted 91 wins, 60 losses, and 30 overtime losses, with a career goals-against average of 2.71, a .909 save percentage, and 11 shutouts. In the 2025-26 season with Colorado, he has appeared in 43 games, going 29-6-6 with a 2.10 goals-against average, a .918 save percentage, and 3 shutouts across 2,424:05 of ice time, facing 1,040 shots against.

InGoal Magazine has covered Scott Wedgewood in two podcast appearances, five Pro Reads, one drill breakdown, and two InGoal articles.

Among the themes that have run through that coverage is Wedgewood's detailed self-awareness about his own game. In his debut on the InGoal Radio Podcast InGoal Radio Episode 183 with Scott Wedgewood, he delivered what Kevin Woodley described as a detailed breakdown of the evolution of his game and technique — an appearance that directly prompted the Pro Reads series that followed. In his first Pro Reads session Scott Wedgewood Pro Reads Debut, Wedgewood broke down a power-play sequence against his former team, the Tampa Bay Lightning, explaining how he used pre-scout knowledge and recognizing that Steven Stamkos wasn't looking at him to anticipate a pass rather than a shot. He also described his reasoning for not taking too much ice against Brayden Point in the slot, citing the risk of forward momentum leaving him vulnerable to a rebound tap-in. "If I come across to the top of my paint and I've got forward momentum, anything that falls off me, [Anthony] Cirrelli is tapping it in behind me," Wedgewood said. "But I have a lot better chance here, static, feet underneath me, to recover and battle him to a post then if I'm two more feet up. I like sacrificing a little depth to be static … and I get a sightline out of it, which also helps."

A recurring theme across his Pro Reads appearances is the deliberate use of scans — looking off the puck when it moves to a non-threatening area. "Puck is in a dead area, there's no threat, take the scan while I can," he said in that debut session Scott Wedgewood Pro Reads Debut. In his second Pro Reads Scott Wedgewood Pro Reads 2, he described sweeping through the crease while tracking the puck behind the net: "As I swoop, there's a scan to see who is up high. As I get to my post, I anchor in, I feel confident and my head is now up ice again, another scan for me, pretty much options." He also identified the bottom hash mark as his threshold for deciding whether to beat a cross-ice pass on his feet or commit to a slide, and spoke about the mechanics of leading with his head to generate rotation on a push while snapping his back leg in tight quickly to seal. "Take up as much net as possible and make him do something perfect," he said.

In his third Pro Reads Scott Wedgewood Pro Reads 3, Wedgewood was self-critical about a rebound he gave up on a point shot — "That first rebound, I chased it" — before explaining why he chose to recover to his skates rather than stay down on his knees before a backdoor chance. "The biggest key is I got my feet back," he said. "I don't know being that high if a lot of goalies would even stay down but that's one thing I try to do as much as I possibly can on any rebound is don't chase, just get your feet back. … that's the only reason I get there." His fourth Pro Reads Scott Wedgewood Pro Reads 4 featured a 2-on-1 overtime situation against Carolina, where he highlighted the role of shot handedness in his decision-making — knowing that Andrei Svechnikov was a left shot told him he had time to hold his feet rather than commit to a slide or split. In his fifth session Scott Wedgewood Pro Reads 5, he faced an Auston Matthews power-play sequence and described his depth decision in direct terms: "It was a Matthews shooting gallery for ¾ of this game and he got me on a one-timer on the short side from here. He was looking to shoot all night and that was one of those a pump-fake passes but not everything is going to be perfect, so just try to get my foot in as quick as possible so he can't bank off my butt."

The emphasis on handedness extends well beyond individual sequences. In a 2024 InGoal Radio appearance InGoal Radio Episode 249 with Scott Wedgewood covered in a subsequent article Scott Wedgewood on Importance of “Counting Hands”, Wedgewood described counting the handedness of opposing skaters as a constant practice throughout games and even during line changes. "I don't know if it's a personal thing that I do differently but every face-off, I have a count. Is it four lefties, one righty? Is it three and two?" he said. "I always check hands and that's a big thing for me and I check that early. I check it on line changes: If they're in a rush and they do a delay, I look off to the bench to see who is coming [off the bench], is it a lefty or righty? Before games, the lineup board always has a count." He described a specific in-game situation against the Kings where that counting led directly to a save, locating the one righty on the ice during a scrum and using process of elimination when the puck popped to the slot. "It popped out, I took away middle, he went lefty back into my low glove, sealed it, big save," he said Scott Wedgewood on Importance of “Counting Hands”.

In March 2023, while working back from a lower-body injury, Wedgewood and Stars goaltending coach Jeff Reese were captured on a rehab skate in Vancouver running a crease movement drill with a physical element Pro Drills with Scott Wedgewood. Reese positioned himself at the top of the crease and battled Wedgewood as he moved through five spots on the ice corresponding to a power-play attack — off-net players on each side, a point quarterback, and both flanks. "Pick your five spots and pretty much just going through any kind of plays you might expect to see," Wedgewood said. "We're in the middle of a workout and he's giving me a little bit of a battle." Wedgewood described his own approach to positioning in that session: "I play at the top of my paint. I'm not as big as some of the guys around the League, so I like to get out there and engage and I've got to get to my spots." Stars training staff monitored his heart rate as the work intervals built from 20 seconds up to multiple 40-second segments with 30-second breaks.