Coyote Tracks - Thursday March 11 Edition
by Moridin417 on Mar 11, 2010 6:00 AM MST
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Well it was a packed house last night at Jobing.com Arena to see the Canucks and Coyotes do battle. Unfortunately, that crowd was split far closer to 50-50 in terms of Canucks and Coyotes fans than I would like...but the Canadians were generally pretty nice...and they did help to drown out the god awful national anthem singer...where, oh where, was Patrick Lauder? Seriously...he's the official anthem singer for a reason, people.
As for the game, Coach Tippett said it best in his presser, the Coyotes were lucky to come away with any points, let alone 2. Although defensively, they played pretty solid, mental lapses by various players (I'm looking at you Ed Jovanovski and Derek Morris) and just simply getting outworked along the boards was par for the course. Travis will have much more about all of this in his game recap, I have no doubt. The important points to remember are the Lee Stempniak (aka Desert Ninja) had a HUGE game with 2 goals during regulation and then another in the shootout. Adrian Aucoin continued his role as shootout master, and Ilya Bryzgalov was good enough to get the Coyotes their 2 points.
Now for the Coyotes, a four game swing through the Southeast division while avoiding Washington (the one team that you really don't want to play in that division). Hopefully they can continue their winning ways.
LAST NIGHT'S NHL SCORES: NYR 3 - NJD 6; DAL 3 - BUF 5; CAR 3 - WSH 4 (OT); LAK 2 - CHI 3 (OT); VAN 3 - PHX 4 (SO)
Recaps of last night's Coyotes win...Travis' take here. [AP via ESPN] [AZ Central's Gintonio] [Nucks Misconduct - it'll be there at some point] - As an aside, thanks to all the folks from Nucks Misconduct that made their way over to the comments yesterday and chatted some hockey. Good people - best of luck the rest of this season, except when we play you again ;)
After the jump, why Stempniak should've had a hat trick, NHL's GMs make a decision on head shots (sort of), a Congressional logo mishap and more....
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Phoenix Coyotes Snag a 4-3 Win from the Canucks in the Shootout
by Travis Hair on Mar 11, 2010 1:10 AM MST
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Well last night's game was certainly an exciting one. The Coyotes ended up on top, but only after a shoot out that ended with an identical score as the game. Yet again our unlikely shootout specialist Adrian Aucoin netted the game winner. He's becoming quite the go to guy in the contest now 3 for 3 on the season. He just seems to find ways to get them past the goalie even if it isn't all that pretty.
Lee Stempniak was one of the biggest stars for the Coyotes tonight getting 2 goals and one of the 4 shootout goals. He's really been big for the Coyotes since we picked him up from the Leafs with 3 goals and an assist with a +6 over the last 3 games. What can you say about the guy? He's been clutch here.
Taylor Pyatt also got one of the regulation goals against his former team. It was a nice effort play to put his own rebound in. THe Pyatt-Fiddler-Stempniak line in general was the best one we had rolling. Putting pressure on the Canucks all night, attacking well and finding each other with passes. The other lines? Not so much. Doan-Lombardi-Wolski just all seemed like they were in different places, the Czech line had it's moments and Noki-Korpi-Winnik did alright defensively, but wasn't finding anything in our own zone.
For the Canucks It was all Sedins and Sameulsson. Henrik scored one, Samuelsson and Erhoff netted the others. Even with the 3-3 score neither team looked all that great tonight. The first period was a mess for both as no one could seem to set up anything. sure both teams got goals, but everyone just seemed disjointed. The other periods were back and forth, but no one really controlled play for very long. Towards the end though the Coyotes seemed like they were playing not to lose instead of pressuring and trying to get the W. That's just not going to cut it in the stretch run. We have to go for the kill as soon there will be no shootout to win it in. We'll have to figure out a way to play hungrier.
Good win even if we just barely got it though.
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Canucks at Coyotes - What a Bunch of Dorks! Get it? Dorks? What?
by Travis Hair on Mar 10, 2010 7:44 PM MST
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Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010, 8:00 PM MST
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Canucks at Coyotes - Game #67 Preview - Go Puck a Nuck!
by Travis Hair on Mar 10, 2010 6:09 PM MST
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For those that didn't see the highlights of Avs-Nucks last night, Roberto Luongo sucked for a while It was Avs 4 - Mikael Samuelsson 3 after 2 periods and the Canucks came back to win 6-4. That's the short version. Andrew Raycroft will get the start against the Phoenix Coyotes tonight.
The Coyotes haven't played since Saturday when we ran the Ducks 4-0. Robert Lang might be back in the line up, though he just started skating recently so we'll see. Mathieu Schneider could be in as well, though I'd bet he's more likely for the road trip that starts on Saturday.
Starting Goaltenders
No doubt he gets this game with a conference opponent that's so close to us in points. He's had a few days rest and should be just fine. Besides who else would you take in the big game?
Being at the end of the massive 14 game road trip thanks to the Olympics and on the 2nd game of the back-to-back the Canucks will go with Raycroft tonight. We've had him start against us 4 times before and he's gone 1-3 with an .891% save percentage. Not the best numbers, though hope he stays consistent.
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Coyote Tracks - Wednesday March 10 Edition
by Moridin417 on Mar 10, 2010 6:00 AM MST
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Hey hey...Canucks in town tonight...time to show up folks and keep "the true north strong and free" out of our arena! Seriously, Vancouver travels very well into the valley and we need to counteract these HNIC lovers...Vancouver made a big comeback last night scoring 3 against the Avalanche to win 6-4...this is the final game of Vancouver's LOOOOONG road trip (14 games! - albeit with the Olympics break)...hopefully it was pretty exhausting and the team just wants to get home and the Coyotes can keep those creepy Sedin twins in check tonight...
Speaking of creepy Sedin twins:
As creepy as it is, I do love that commercial...that whole season of NHL commercials were pretty solid, actually...
Anyways...LAST NIGHT'S NHL SCORES: NYI 2 - PHL 3; BOS 3 - TOR 4 (OT); NSH 2 - ATL 1; CGY 4 - DET 2; TB 3 - MTL 5; FLA 3 - MIN 2 (SO); VAN 6 - COL 4; OTT 4 - EDM 1; CLS 5 - ANA 2 (I had the result right...)
After the jump, Moyes to countersue(?), Coyotes potential losses, consistent NHL goalies and more...
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The Return of Viktor Tikhonov from the KHL
by Travis Hair on Mar 9, 2010 12:00 PM MST
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Hey, remember this guy? Plucky young guy Viktor Tikhonov? You may (or may not) have been wondering where he went off to and if we'd ever be seeing him again. He didn't make the Phoenix Coyotes out of camp this year and was sent down to the AHL. However, in his contract he had a provision that allowed him to be loaned to the KHL if he wasn't going to be seeing significant time with the Coyotes. So Viktor headed off to the land of his father, and more notably his famous grandfather of the same name, to play for the Severstal Cherepovets.
With Severstal Tikhonov was getting respectable numbers and more importantly getting lots and lots of ice time against some pretty good players. His 17:21 per game is 4th on his team for forwards and would amount to being a 2nd line winger on a team just above the AHL in terms of the level of play. Even more impressive is while Cherepovets didn't make the playoffs by a long shot (they were pretty terrible) Tikhonov was a +11 in only 25 games played. While +/- isn't the end all be all of stats, when the next closest forward is a +3? That's kind of significant. Here's a look at his stats for the season with Severstal...
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The Coyotes' Magic Number
by Travis Hair on Mar 9, 2010 9:00 AM MST
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TODAY'S COYOTES MAGIC NUMBER IS...
What's a magic number you might be wondering? Well the magic number is how many wins it will take for a given team to make it into the playoffs regardless of how many games any other teams win. So today's number of 8.5 means that the Coyotes need 8 wins and can get one other point via an overtime loss and absolutely make the playoffs no matter what. Now does that mean that that's all we want to win in order to get the best possible playoff seeding? Surely not, but considering how long it's been since we tasted postseason glory a countdown seemed like a great idea.
Now while opposing wins may not effect our number, the losses of teams clamoring for the spots below us will. For example every time the Flames, Red Wings and teams right on the cusp of getting in lose a game the threshold to get in goes down and so will our magic number. We're less effected by teams such as the Kings who are practically on pace with us.
Going forward I'll drop in the games that bring our number down in the Daily Links, or If there's enough to write about all on it's own on a busy day I might break it out again. Here's to seeing the countdown hit a nice zero!
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Coyote Tracks - Tuesday March 9 Edition
by Moridin417 on Mar 9, 2010 6:00 AM MST
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The remarkable thing about crazy rumor-mongers...they just don't know when to quit. I won't link to the article, but our favorite village idiot preaching the Coyotes are on their way to Winnipeg "imminently" was defending his story on his site...good luck with that one. Anyways, with the Coyotes sitting in solid position for a playoff run, I'll just give this as little thought as I possibly can. Well, actually, I will confirm that the NHL is coming back to Winnipeg:
Tickets available to see NHL greats play police - Winnipeg Free Press
Drive safely this week and you may score free tickets to watch NHL greats play a police hockey team...yeah, found that from a Twitter post (don't recall who, but s/t anonymous twitterer)
No Coyotes game until Wednesday when the Canucks come to town following a Tuesday night matchup with the Avalanche. Hopefully, they will be nice and tired and we can beat up a bit on those creepy Sedin twins...but there's still links to report about and Coyotes news...
First, LAST NIGHT'S NHL SCORES: DAL 4 - WSH 3 (SO); CLS 0 - LAK 6 (after 2nd period, I'm not staying up for the end of this one)
After the jump, the Mueller redemption story(?) and some nice articles about how Daniel Carcillo has started to thrive in Philadelphia after his deadline deal...
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Pacific Standings
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San Jose
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65 | 42 | 14 | 9 | 93 |
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Phoenix
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67 | 40 | 22 | 5 | 85 |
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Los Angeles
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66 | 39 | 22 | 5 | 83 |
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Dallas
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66 | 29 | 25 | 12 | 70 |
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Anaheim
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66 | 30 | 28 | 8 | 68 |
(updated 3.11.2010 at 7:23 AM MST)
Coyotes Schedule
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Carolina
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Sat 03/13 | 5:00 PM MST |
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Atlanta
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Sun 03/14 | 2:00 PM MST |
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Tampa Bay
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Tue 03/16 | 4:30 PM MST |
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Florida
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Thu 03/18 | 4:30 PM MST |
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Chicago
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Sat 03/20 | 6:00 PM MST |
Last 5 Games
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Vancouver
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Wed 03/10 | SO - W 4 - 3 |
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Anaheim
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Sat 03/06 | W 4 - 0 |
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Colorado
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Thu 03/04 | W 3 - 1 |
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St. Louis
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Tue 03/02 | L 2 - 5 |
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Dallas
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Sat 02/13 | L 0 - 3 |
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