GDT: Game 65: Coyotes @ Oilers - 7PM - FSAZ+

[SniperHF]

Previously on Coyotes Hockey...



Coyotes continue streak over Oilers in dramatic fashion

Max Domi and Shane Doan picked up goals, Mike Smith made 32 saves and Oliver Ekman-Larsson beat Cam Talbot for the game-clincher as Arizona edged Edmonton 3-2 in the shootout on Friday night at Gila River Arena.

With the win, the Coyotes are now 20-0-4 against the Oilers in their last 24 meetings. And if that seems like an impressive run, well, it is. The last time a team strung together a 24-game point streak over the same opponent, it was Edmonton doing the winning over Vancouver from 1985 to 1988.

Tippett says Coyotes 'not emotionally engaged' in loss to Oilers

Arizona had gone a remarkable 25 straight games with at least a point against the Oilers and 25 straight games without a regulation loss (21-0-4) before Wednesday’s defeat. It made sense then that the Oilers’ goals came in bizarre fashion.

Edmonton Oilers charge back with four unanswered goals to topple Arizona Coyotes

But the Oilers quickly found their legs after a power play injected some life into the offense. With less than six minutes to go in the first, Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse beat Coyotes goaltender Antti Raanta with a shot from the blueline to cut the Edmonton deficit in half.

“We beat ourselves but didn’t have many chances,” Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet said. “We just beat ourselves. Same song and dance. Couple of guys giving the puck away and then it’s inside our net.”

Raanta makes 39 saves, streaking Coyotes beat Oilers 1-0

The customized title belt the Arizona Coyotes pass around for a top performance in a victory was already in Antti Raanta's possession after a win two days earlier against Montreal.

Raanta did even more to earn the belt Saturday, though he handed it off to defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson. Raanta made 39 saves for his first shutout of the season and the Coyotes won their fourth straight, scoring on their first shot in a 1-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers.

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[SniperHF]

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LW	C	RW
Brendan Perlini	Derek Stepan	Clayton Keller
Max Domi	Christian Dvorak	Christian Fischer
Richard Panik	Freddie Hamilton	Josh Archibald
Jordan Martinook	Brad Richardson	Nick Cousins

[TBODY] [/TBODY]
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Defensive Pairings
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	Jason Demers
Jakob Chychrun	Niklas Hjalmarsson
Kevin Connauton	Alex Goligoski

[TBODY] [/TBODY]
[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Antti Raanta

LW	C	RW
Milan Lucic	Connor McDavid	Leon Draisaitl
Michael Cammalleri	Ryan Nugent-Hopkins	Pontus Aberg
Jesse Puljujarvi	Ryan Strome	Anton Slepyshev
Iiro Pakarinen	Jujhar Khaira	Zack Kassian

[TBODY] [/TBODY]
[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Defensive Pairings
Darnell Nurse	Kris Russell
Oscar Klefbom	Matt Benning
Andrej Sekera	Ethan Bear

[TBODY] [/TBODY]
[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Cam Talbot

 

[FinnishCoyote]

Would like to see some PP goals, Oilers have had historically bad PK at home. Only 58.5 PK%

 

[moosemeister]

Max Domi sucks

 

[Neighborhood Coyote]

Alllright! Let's go Yotes! Can't wait to see some more hard play!

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

Goligoski not with the team. He's on baby watch.

 

[Daisy Ridley]

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[Name Nameless]

Still thinking the odds for the draft lottery should be based on the results from the first half of the season for the teams who don't make the playoffs. All the talk about tanking among all the opponents is frustrating. To see fans cheering for losses absolutely disgusting.

Beat this overstacked team anyway. Even if their owners want them to lose. Yeah, let them get used to losing a little bit more. Because they will lose this and the next 180 games after it. At least. Let them tank. Let them sit there with a full line-up of first-overalls and look like they belonged in an amateur-league. Their team will be a lottery-team forever. And those lotteries will be the only thing they will ever win again.

This will be the Coyotes last lottery. As of the 2019 draft, and forever after, we will pick last in the first round. Every year.

No pressure.

 

[Daisy Ridley]

Why not just remove the draft lottery entirely because it is f***ing stupid

 

[moosemeister]

Why not just remove the draft lottery entirely because it is f*cking stupid

This

 

[rt]

We just had bad timing. When we were miss the playoffs bad but not lottery bad, we had no chance of winning. Now that the odds are spread so thin across all non playoff teams, we continue to miss the boat as a very bad team. It doesn’t mean the system is broken, it just means we’re cursed.

 

[Name Nameless]

Why not just remove the draft lottery entirely because it is ****ing stupid

It's to remove the "fun" in tanking. To lose intentionally, and then get screwed in the lottery, must make you feel even worse than losing due to incompetence and then getting screwed in the lottery.

I think I see the point with it.

 

[Name Nameless]

Prediction: Hjalmarsson gets his first goal for the Yotes.

On his first shot, which is also the first shot on goal in the match.

 

[Kaizen]

If you get that right we gonna play some lotto real quick.

 

[TheLegend]

It's to remove the "fun" in tanking. To lose intentionally, and then get screwed in the lottery, must make you feel even worse than losing due to incompetence and then getting screwed in the lottery.

I think I see the point with it.

Tanking is for losers.

 

[AZviaNJ]

Tanking is for losers.

We tanked 3 years ago and ended up with a current AHL player, Buffalo out-tanked us and missed on McDavid. Edmonton is just lucky.....

 

[Summer Rose]

Edmonton Oilers? More like Deadmonton Spoilers.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

National Hockey League Playoff Chances - Sports Club Stats

Our odds of catching Vancouver or Edmonton are up to 10%!

Only 5 games in the NHL tonight, but bottom 5 all in action. Big night.

 

[BOGO]

Why not just remove the draft lottery entirely because it is ****ing stupid

This

It sounds good if you are just ranting or raving about it, but what is the alternative that makes more sense? I always loved this line by our local Dave Mustaine, "If there is a new way, I'll be the first in line. It better work this time."

 

[ClassLessCoyote]

What sucks more? Edmonton Oilers? The City of Edmonton?

 

[Muppet]

It's about to get awfully sticky in Edmonton

 

[TheLegend]

It's about to get awfully sticky in Edmonton

 

[TheLegend]

 

[Muppet]

I mean you really do look at that forward roster and wonder how the f*** we're winning games at all

 

[TheLegend]

Late goalie switch.... Kuemper is in goal.