{"id":126981,"date":"2022-03-20T23:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T03:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=126981"},"modified":"2022-03-20T23:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T03:23:03","slug":"arizona-coyotes-trade-scott-wedgewood-to-dallas-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/03\/20\/arizona-coyotes-trade-scott-wedgewood-to-dallas-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Coyotes Trade Scott Wedgewood to Dallas Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Coyotes have traded goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wedgesc01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Wedgewood<\/a> to the Dallas Stars for a fourth-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/weekeke01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Weekes<\/a> broke the news of the trade while TSN&#8217;s Pierre LeBrun added details about the draft pick.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As Kevin said, confirming Wedgwood to the Dallas Stars for a 4th RD pick in \u201823 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hT39LxV6iW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/hT39LxV6iW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1505735830673014789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Arizona also closing in on a contract extension for goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vejmeka01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karel Vejmelka<\/a>. TSN&#8217;s Darren Dreger reports that the two sides are still ironing out details, but a deal is close.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wedgewood trade to Dallas is interesting. It\u2019s believed the Coyotes are also closing in on an extension with goalie, Karel Vejmelka.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/1505736331409960962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Coyotes Trade Scott Wedgewood to Stars<\/h2>\n<p>Wedgewood has a 10-14-3 record with a 3.16 goals against average this season. The 29-year-old has a .909 save percentage in 2021-22 for the Coyotes.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s played for the New Jersey Devils and Arizona Coyotes in his four-year NHL career. The Brampton, Ontario native<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/11\/09\/arizona-coyotes-scott-wedgewood-sets-an-obscure-record\/\" target=\"_self\"> has a career record<\/a> of 20-32-11 in a nice 69 career games. Wedgewood has a 3.11 goals-against-average and .905 save percentage with four career shutouts. New Jersey signed the netminder after his final season with the OHL Plymouth Whalers.<\/p>\n<p>He helped Team Canada to a bronze medal at the 2012 IIHF World Junior Championships. He went 2-0 with a shutout in three games during that tournament.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>The trade seems to be a surprise as Coyotes Insider Craig Morgan reported that both sides were working on an extension. However, Wedgewood got sent to the Stars, who are undergoing changes in their crease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/oettija01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Oettinger<\/a> seems to be the goalie of the future and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/holtbbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Braden Holtby<\/a> could be a sought-after commodity. Wedgewood could settle in as the veteran backup or play in AHL Texas if Holtby stays put. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/khudoan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anton Khudobin<\/a> is out for the rest of the season with injury and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bishobe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Bishop<\/a> is effectively retired.<\/p>\n<p>Vejmelka looks like he&#8217;s the one staying put in Arizona. The Czech goalie is 10-22-1 in his rookie season in the league. 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Kevin Weekes broke the news of the trade while TSN&#8217;s Pierre LeBrun added details about the draft pick. As Kevin said, confirming Wedgwood to the Dallas Stars for a 4th RD pick in \u201823 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":126986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4547,34,4548,21],"tags":[5937,6104,7025,955,965,2165],"class_list":["post-126981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stars","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-mammoth","tag-arizona-coyotes-news","tag-dallas-stars-news","tag-karel-vejmelka","tag-nhl-news","tag-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-scott-wedgewood"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}