Claimed off Waivers: [ARI] Scott Wedgewood claimed off waivers by the Coyotes from the Devils
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He held the league lead in goals I counted stoppable in just 2 games played. I think I still have him in fourth or fifth and he's only even played 2 games.
Now that I look at it, he's appeared in 3 games, but has only played 115 minutes. That's not even 2 whole games.
Ouch.
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I think it has something to do with the fact that he sucks. He's terrible and I don't know how anybody didn't see Arizona's goaltending going into the year as a HUGE problem and having the 32nd tandem in the league.
Only Buffalo looked like they could possibly challenge for worse, if not because they had an ancient Craig Anderson and the two potential backups were AHL caliber. And Buffalo is where came from.
Hutton is AHL caliber at this point at best.
He's only played 3 games though, so I don't think he'd sustain .740% for long, but I could see him being an .880-something% long term.
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Karel Vejmelka had been amazing:
| 2.54GAA | .922SV% |
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He hasn't been bad, but I don't know what the expectation was coming into this season with him.
Any tandem with Carter Hutton and a rookie doesn't seem like a tandem that is very promising heading into the season.
I'm not saying they'll stay the 32nd goaltending tandem in the league, but they certainly started the season that way with it being Hutton and either Vejmelka or Korenar.
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Arizona probably would have been better off just putting the $7500 in a bag and stacking it in front of the net as their Goalie
My ball hockey league is a little short on goalies for the upcoming season. We always joked about putting a shooter tutor into the draft pool. Probably a chance that it wouldn't be the last goalie taken.
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uncleben
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All waivers require compensation
Essentially the one team is buying the contract off the other
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I loved hutton with the blues. But he hasnt been the same since he started having that eye issue even though he said its treated now. I think he probably still cant see and track 100% and his confidence is shot(as well as reflexes declining with age to make him less quick to compensate for seeing puck too late.
And his play this year has just dropped off the cliff. He honestly would probanly get lit up in the ahl and echl at this point.
It was just painful watching the few games he played this year and how far he has fallen from playing with the blues.
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Hahahaha, holy crap that's hilarious. Scott Wedgewood rises from the Ashes just so the Arizona Coyotes can choke on them to get 1st overall. Poetic.
Barnaby
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Im starting to think you make these dollar amounts up and this is some serious long game con. Somewhere, you’re sitting in front of a computer laughing hysterically.
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Is dependent entirely on how long the player has been on contract in the League
The idea being if you spend two or three years growing a guy and then he gets claimed first chance, you didn't really get to reap any of those rewards so you get more compensation
A player whose been in the league, is pretty far removed from "not having that chance", so the compensation is lower
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Dr Pepper
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Tao Jersey Jones
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The sheer odds of this happening must've been huuuuge.
Especially since Wedgewood didn't start the game.
Dr Pepper
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Tao Jersey Jones
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In fairness he probably should have started on the second game of a back-to-back. Rookie Vejmelka surrendered two goals in the opening 59 seconds.
