Arizona Coyotes make it 4 straight wins over Toronto Maple Leafs

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Jack McBain scored two late objectives, and the Arizona Coyotes beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-3 on Thursday evening for his or her third straight win.

McBain broke a tie when he transformed a cross-ice feed from Lawson Crouse with 6:17 remaining. McBain and Barrett Hayton scored into an open web within the closing moments because the Coyotes (13-6-5) grew to become the primary workforce to beat Toronto (22-8-6) twice this season.

Arizona has now gained 4 straight video games over Toronto, who hasn’t crushed the Coyotes since 2020.

“Lawson is enjoying unreal proper now,” McBain mentioned. “He made a very good cross there and I used to be simply glad I used to be capable of put it in.”

The Coyotes are 6-1-1 at 5,000-seat Mullett Area since getting back from a 14-game, 33-day street journey. They’ve defeated Boston, Colorado and the Maple Leafs at dwelling this season.

“We’re profitable video games in opposition to actually good opponents,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny mentioned. “We can not get forward of ourselves. We have to get higher each day. It’s a extremely powerful league, however we’ve constructed up some confidence to play at dwelling, that’s for positive. The ambiance is nice, we find it irresistible. Now we consider in ourselves, and that’s increase.”

Nick Bjugstad, Jakob Chychrun and J.J. Moser additionally scored, and Karel Vejmelka had 29 saves for the Coyotes. Hayton had two assists.

“(McBain) performed with lots of ardour,” Tourigny mentioned. “He was bodily. He was very quick. He gained lots of battles.”

Pontus Holmberg, Calle Jarnkrok and Alexander Kerfoot scored for the Maple Leafs, who had gained three in a row. Jarnkrok has scored in three straight. Matt Murray made 17 saves.

“That’s a recreation that we clearly must be profitable and gave it away,” Kerfoot mentioned. “It’s enjoyable enjoying in new environments. That is totally different. Packed constructing. Vitality within the constructing. It was a enjoyable expertise, but it surely doesn’t actually matter an excessive amount of.”

The Leafs have been coming off a 4-3 additional time victory in St. Louis on Tuesday.

“That’s two video games in a row now that we now have given up a lead within the third interval,” Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe mentioned. “It’s two video games we’ve been accountable for. It bought away on us for various causes.”

Bjugstad gave the Coyotes an early lead when he poked a puck free alongside the facet boards and skated in alone on Murray after Leafs defensemen Mark Giordano and Justin Holl collided simply contained in the blue line. Bjugstad’s objective at 46 seconds was one in every of two Coyotes pictures within the first interval.

Holmberg and Jarnkrok scored on the Leafs’ two power-play probabilities halfway via the primary, each on passes from Conor Timmins.

“We scored two actually massive power-play objectives,” Keefe mentioned. “That breakaway we quit on the primary shift, that’s not a very good search for us off the beginning.”

Chychrun tied it at 2-2 on an influence play within the second interval. The Coyotes gained the draw of their finish and Chychrun knocked in a rebound of Nick Ritchie’s fast wrist shot.

Kerfoot put the Leafs forward 3-2 when he redirected Giordano’s shot from the blue line at 11:19 after sending the puck to Giordano from behind the web.

“Simply tried to beat my man again to the web and it bounced proper to me,” Kerfoot mentioned.

Moser tied it 5 minutes into the third with one second remaining on a penalty on Timmins, who gave the puck away in his personal finish and was known as for prime sticking whereas making an attempt to get it again.

“That was simply on me,” mentioned Timmins, who was traded to Toronto after enjoying two video games with the Coyotes in November. “I took a foul penalty early within the third interval and allow them to again in, after which it’s a tie recreation and it might go both approach. Now we have to restrict these errors, myself particularly.”

WORTH NOTING

– Coyotes ahead Liam O’Brien (higher physique) missed his sixth straight recreation. The Coyotes dressed 11 forwards.

– Actor Vance Vaughn and 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps attended.

UP NEXT

The Coyotes go to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday for a 3 p.m. puck drop on ESPN 620 AM / 98.7 FM HD-2, the Arizona Sports activities app and ArizonaSports.com.

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