{"id":554392,"date":"2026-04-17T08:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554392\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:48:18","slug":"wedgewood-makes-22-saves-avalanche-shut-out-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554392\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedgewood makes 22 saves, Avalanche shut out Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blankenburg and Parker Kelly<\/a>\u00a0scored, and Valeri Nichushkin<\/a> had two assists for the Avalanche (55-16-11), who went 5-0-1 in their final six games and set a franchise record for points in a season with 121. Forwards Nathan MacKinnon<\/a>, Martin Necas<\/a> and Gabriel Landeskog<\/a>\u00a0did not play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought everyone tonight played with great commitment and a great mentality to check the right way, and I thought we (had a) solid game,\u201d Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. \u201cWe did a nice job on the offensive side of things. I thought we could have earned a couple more. We did a great job on the defensive side of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like where our team is at going into this. Get them some rest here, get them up to speed on L.A. and turn them loose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colorado will begin its Western Conference First Round series against the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday. The Kings finished as the second wild card following a 3-1 loss to the Calgary Flames on Thursday and wins by the Edmonton Oilers and Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n

“I don’t have any initial thoughts,\u201d Bednar said of the matchup. \u201cThat\u2019s who we’re playing, so that’s who we’ll prepare for and get ready to go. I mean, I haven’t spent any time on the Kings except for when we played them a couple times this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Wedgewood: \u201cIt’s going to be tough. It always is, right? Everyone levels up and plays. They’re a good defensive team. They make you work for it, and then they got some veterans, some high-speed players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victor Ostman<\/a> made 33 saves in his first NHL start for the Kraken (34-37-11), who lost their final three games of the season, including 4-1 at the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we competed, certainly. I thought they were quicker, and as a result, we spent some time in our zone,\u201d Seattle coach Lane Lambert said. \u201cI thought at times, too, we looked a little tired. I think the back-to-back we had is ridiculous. Last two games of the year, when you lose a time zone, get in at 3 o\u2019clock in the morning, playing the No. 1 team in the League.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, call it an excuse. Call it whatever you want. I thought at times we didn’t have a lot in the tank. I thought that we did our best and tried to stay committed to trying to do what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blankenburg and Parker Kelly\u00a0scored, and Valeri Nichushkin had two assists for the Avalanche (55-16-11), who went 5-0-1 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-554392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116419186202460942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}