Zegras’ goal helps Ducks top Coyotes, snap 11-game skid
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Trevor Zegras scored one other lacrosse-style purpose, Isac Lundestrom had two targets and an help, Anthony Stolarz made 22 saves for his third shutout of the season and the Anaheim Geese snapped an 11-game shedding streak with a 5-0 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Friday night time.
Stolarz, in his first begin since March 12 after lacking eight video games, had his sixth shutout in 56 profession video games.
Cam Fowler had a purpose and an help, and Gerry Mayhew additionally scored for the Geese, who had three targets within the first 10 minutes. The Geese had solely three factors since their final victory March 6.
“It’s not that black cloud,” coach Dallas Eakins mentioned of ending the skid. “We discuss on a regular basis right here about successful right now. Streaks are nice for followers and also you (media) guys to speak about. The truth is, video games previously have zero to do with right now.“
Cam Fowler had a purpose and an help, and Gerry Mayhew additionally scored for the Geese, who had three targets within the first 10 minutes. The Geese had solely three factors since their final victory March 6.
The Coyotes, who’ve misplaced seven of eight, performed their first recreation with out main scorer Clayton Keller, who suffered a fractured femur when he crashed into the boards late in a 5-2 victory over San Jose on Wednesday. He’ll miss the remainder of the season.
The sport received chippy late, when every workforce was given two penalties for preventing. The sport was stopped with 5:37 remaining when blood was scraped off the ice after Coyotes ahead Jay Beagle knocked Troy Terry to the ice in a struggle in entrance of the Coyotes’ web. Each had been assessed preventing penalties, and Beagle was given a two-minute penalty for cross checking and a recreation misconduct at 14:23. The Coyotes’ Phil Kessel additionally obtained a recreation misconduct.
“I believe we have to get up for ourselves, and I like what he did,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny mentioned of Beagle’s response. “There’s a whack at our goalie, he had a presence there, after which he received jumped, and he answered the bell. That’s great things in my view.”
Terry, who had two assists, obtained medical consideration within the area and had cuts and bruises above and beneath his left eye when he returned to the locker room after the sport.
“The truth that he was down and never engaged in a struggle and you will hit him three extra instances,” Terry’s linemate Zegras mentioned. “I’m embarrassed for who that was. I’m not going to say his identify.
“You don’t punch a man when he’s down, particularly a 31-goal scorer within the NHL who’s a celebrity. I believe it’s a foul search for the league. For the participant who did it, it’s humiliating, and I believe he needs to be punished.”
Josef Korenar had 26 saves for Arizona after changing starter Karel Vejmelka at 9:42 of the primary interval after Zegras’ purpose gave the Geese a 3-0 lead.
Zegras picked up the puck behind the Coyotes web to Vejmelka’s left and skated round to the opposite aspect, the place he held the puck on his blade and backhanded it in from chest degree.
It’s the second time the 21-year-old rookie has scored on a lacrosse-style purpose, with Zegras additionally pulling off the feat towards Montreal on Jan. 27.
“We’ll take targets anyway we will get them,” Eakins mentioned. “There’s a time for these targets, and that was the time for it. That was a giant purpose. It allowed us to play with some confidence.”
The Geese scored on three of their 9 photographs towards Vejmelka, who was making his seventh straight begin. That outburst got here after Anaheim had scored simply 21 targets throughout their skid — and by no means greater than three in a single recreation.
Lundestrom skated in alone after a defensive breakdown and flipped a wrist shot from the left circle that received between Vejmelka’s glove and his proper pad for a 1-0 lead at 3:38 of the primary interval.
Mayhew’s rising slap shot from the highest of the left circle tipped off Vejmelka’s glove for a 2-0 lead at 7:41. Zegras’ intelligent purpose made it 3-0 two minutes later.
Stolarz stopped the Coyotes’ greatest probability, when Michael Carcone skated in alone eight minutes in.
“We had a number of alternatives, and we wanted to bury these,” Tourigny mentioned. “If we bury one or two of these we’re coming again into the sport and it’s a unique story from there.”
Fowler gave the Geese a 4-0 lead at 5:44 of the second interval when he took drop cross from Lundestrom on a 3-on-1 break and beat Korenar on the far aspect, and Lundestrom scored his second at 7:25 of the third.
“There’s a little little bit of hangover from that (Keller damage), for certain, emotionally,” Tourigny mentioned. “There’s an adjustment we have to make as a workforce. We’ll must navigate via that and get higher each day.”
NOTES: Keller is predicted to overlook 4 to 6 months after present process surgical procedure Thursday. The Coyotes’ main scorer with 35 targets and 28 assists had performed in 357 consecutive video games, the fourth-longest lively streak within the league. … Anaheim Fs Ryan Geltzlaf (decrease physique) and Jakob Silfverberg (blood clot in leg) had been scratched. Getzlaf is listed as each day. … The Coyotes performed with out top-six Ds Jakob Chychrun (decrease physique) and J.J. Moser (higher physique) for the eighth straight recreation. Chychrun has missed the final 10. … The Coyotes recalled F Hudson Fasching from Tucson of the American Hockey League. … Coyotes F Nick Ritchie performed in his four-hundredth recreation. Ritchie was drafted by the Geese in 2014 and performed 287 video games for them. Ritchie has eight targets and two assists in 17 video games since being acquired from Toronto. … The Coyotes had gained six of their final seven dwelling video games towards Anaheim.
UP NEXT
Geese: Host Edmonton on Sunday.
Coyotes: Play at Chicago on Sunday.
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