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Arizona Coyotes get blown out by Canucks in Vancouver
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — J.T. Miller had a career-high 5 assists and the Vancouver Canucks prolonged their profitable streak to 5 video games with a 7-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday night time.
With the win, the Canucks stored alive their faint playoff hopes. Vancouver is 5 factors behind the Nashville Predators and Dallas Stars, who maintain the 2 Western Convention wild-card spots.
Rookie Vasily Podkolzin had two objectives and an help, Alex Chiasson scored twice, and Sheldon Dries, Elias Pettersson and Conor Garland added objectives for the Canucks (37-28-10). Quinn Hughes had three assists. Thatcher Demko made 21 saves.
“I’m upset concerning the variety of penalties we had and the best way we took our penalties,” Coyotes head coach Andre Tourigny advised reporters postgame. “We fed their energy play lots, we gave them the chance they usually did what they needed to do on their energy play. That’s disappointing.”
Andrew Ladd scored for the Coyotes (22-47-5), who misplaced their fifth straight.
“The NHL to me is filled with slumps,” Tourigny stated. “You want to have the ability to react to slumps. In the event you can’t get out of slumps within the NHL, you’re in bother. You may be a streaky participant.
“The NHL shouldn’t be about that, it’s about being good day by day. It’s about consistency. You can’t have an eight-out-of-10 day. The man on the opposite facet is simply too good. It’s good to be sure to’re on prime of your sport each night time.”
Karel Vejmelka stopped 16 of twenty-two photographs earlier than being changed by Harri Sateri at first of the third interval. Sateri made 4 saves in aid.
“I preferred the best way we performed within the third interval,” Tourigny stated. “We confirmed extra pleasure within the third interval, and to me that’s our group. That’s the best way we’ve got to combat. We talked about it earlier than the sport, and we bought higher on that.”
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