Coyotes 4, Sharks 0 – Mar. 27, 2021 – Gila River Arena ARI Goals: Keller (11, GWG), Kessel (12, PPG, 13, 14, EN) ARI Goalie: Adin Hill (W) – 34 saves on 34 shots
SJS Goalie: Devan Dubnyk (L) – 23 saves on 26 shots PP: 1-6 PK: 1-1
Notes: Phil Kessel scored his first hat trick with the Coyotes and extended his point streak to five games…Clayton Keller had his first three-point game of the season (1-2-3)…Coyotes won their third straight game...Adin Hill notched his second career shutout.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
INJURY UPDATE (total man games lost to injury: 59 games) Darcy Kuemper…IR…Lower-Body
Antti Raanta…IR…Lower-Body Niklas Hjalmarsson…IR…Upper-Body Tyler Pitlick…IR…Lower-Body
PACK FACTS
Jakob Chychrun (4-7-11) leads the Coyotes in road points this season.
The Coyotes 89.5% road PK is the best in the NHL.
Adin Hill has not given up a 5-on-5 goal over the last 139:32 and only two goals during that span.
Christian Dvorak, Clayton Keller, Phil Kessel and Conor Garland all lead the team with seven multi-point games.
Conor Garland’s 21 penalties drawn are the third-most in the NHL and he has already surpassed Lawson Crouse’s 2019-20 team-high of 19.
Arizona is 12-2-4 when Garland has recorded a point this season.
The Coyotes four multi-goal comebacks this season are the third-most in the NHL (FLA/WPG: 5).
Arizona is 12-4-1 when they score a PPG this season.
The Coyotes are 13-9-3 when being outshot with their 13 wins tied with VAN for the most this season.
Christian Dvorak has won the fifth-most SH FOs (54) and the eighth-most FOs (361) in the NHL.
Arizona owns the best PK% (83.8%) and have scored the second-most SHGs (23) in the NHL since the start of the 2018-19 season.
Phil Kessel has played in 879 consecutive games, which is the third longest active streak (Keith Yandle: 900 games, Patrick Marleau: 888 games) and the sixth longest streak in NHL history.
STORYLINES VS. COLORADO
Arizona begins a season-long nine-game road trip against the Colorado Avalanche and are nearing the end of a stretch where they will play 16 of 20 games away from Gila River Arena.
The Coyotes have won a season-long three consecutive games for the second time this season and are 4-1-1 over their last six games which is the fourth-best mark in the NHL during that span.
If Ivan Prosvetov (22 y, 26 d) plays he will become the tenth youngest goaltender in franchise history and fourth youngest in Coyotes’ history to make his NHL debut… He would become the second goaltender to make his NHL debut from the 2018 draft.
Season Series: 2/26 vs. COL (L, 3-2), 2/27 vs. COL (L, 6-2), 3/8 at COL (W, 3-2), 3/10 at COL (OTL, 2-1), 3/22 vs. COL (L, 5-1), 3/23 vs. COL (SOW, 5-4), 3/31 at COL, 4/12 at COL
Arizona Coyotes: Media Notes
DATE TIME (AZ) OPP VENUE TV RADIO
Wed. Mar. 31 6:30 p.m. At COL Ball Arena Bally Sports Arizona+ 910 AM
Fri. Apr. 2 7:00 p.m. At ANA Honda Center Bally Sports Arizona+ 910 AM
Sun. Apr. 4 6:00 p.m. At ANA Honda Center Bally Sports Arizona 910 AM
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ARI owns a 58-56-12-11 all-time record vs the Avalanche and are 28-27-5-5 in Colorado The Coyotes have points in six of their last seven games at Colorado (3-1-3).
Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s 18 career points vs. COL are the second-most by a d-man in franchise history (T. Numminen: 3-22-25).
THIS DAY IN COYOTES HISTORY
Mar. 31, 2012 – The 39-year-old Ray Whitney became the oldest player in NHL history to reach the 1,000 point milestone with a goal and an assist in a 4-0 win over the Anaheim Ducks. Mike Smith made 44 saves for his 18th career shutout.
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SCORING NOTABLES AGAINST THE AVALANCHE Phil Kessel: 13-10-23 in 24 games
Alex Goligoski: 4-15-19 in 38 games Oliver Ekman-Larsson: 7-11-18 in 35 games
POINT STREAKS
Phil Kessel – 5 games (5-3-8) *tied for season-long*
Clayton Keller – 3 games (1-4-5)
PHIL THE THRILL
- Phil Kessel recorded his seventh career hat trick and first with the Coyotes on Saturday night…He leads the team with 14 goals and has matched his goal total from last season.
- His shooting percentage of 22.2% ranks eighth in the NHL and is currently his single season career-high (15.5% with BOS in 2008-09).
- He has scored a PPG in consecutive games and leads the Coyotes with 10 power play points…Since 2010-11, Phil Kessel has led his team in power play points in every season except for 2015-16.
KLUTCH KESS
- Phil Kessel has scored four goals to tie a game in the third period this season which is tied for the NHL lead (P.Hornqvist)…Since he entered the NHL in 2006-07, Kessel’s 45 goals to tie or take the lead in the third period are the ninth-most in the NHL.
- He leads the team with nine third period goals this season which are already the most in a season since Shane Doan scored 12 third period goals during the 2013-14 campaign.
- Coyotes have earned points in 12 of 18 games that Kessel has recorded a point this season (10-6-2).
PHILLING THE BOOKS
- Phil Kessel (33 y, 172 d) became the second-youngest active player (Patrick Marleau) and the youngest US-born player at the time of his 1,100th NHL game on Friday night…He’s the 14th youngest of the 201 players that have reached the 1,100 game milestone.
- From his 2006 draft class, no other player has yet to even reach the 1,000 game milestone (Milan Lucic: 995 games).
- He became the 20th American to reach the 500-assist milestone on Mar. 20th…Since he entered the League in 2006, his 501 career assists are the 17th-most in the NHL.
- On Feb. 2nd he became the 15th American player to reach the 300-power play point milestone with an assist.
KELLER INSTINCT
- Clayton Keller leads the team in scoring (11-17-28) and has 5-9-14 in the month of March while coming off his eighth career three-point night on Saturday.
- The Coyotes are 26-6-4 when Clayton Keller has scored a goal since 2018-19.
- Keller has led the team in scoring (65-121-186) since he made his NHL debut on March 27, 2017 and just passed Rick Tocchet for the 13th-most goals in Coyotes history.
SHOOT, THERE IT IS
- The Coyotes won their 78th shootout game on Tuesday which is tied with NJD for the fifth-most wins in NHL history while their 185 team shootout goals are the second-most (NYI: 191).
- Since 2019-20, Nick Schmaltz and Conor Garland’s seven shootout goals are tied for the most in the NHL.
- Christian Dvorak’s leads the NHL with four shootouts goals (100%) and his 86.7% (6/7) mark over the past two seasons is the highest shootout percentage in the League.
- Garland’s next shootout goal will surpass Ray Whitney and Lauri Korpikoski (8) for the fourth-most shootout goals in franchise history.
BRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER
- On Mar. 20th, Derick Brassard recorded his first regular season NHL hat trick… Entering the game, he had played the second-most regular season games (882) among active players without ever scoring a hat trick (Valtteri Filppula (1,038 games).
- His hat trick was the first by a Coyotes player on the road since Christian Fischer’s hat trick in Columbus on Oct. 23, 2018.
- Brassard is now two points shy from 500 career NHL points and will become the tenth player from his 2006 draft class to reach the milestone.
- The Coyotes are 9-2-0 when Brassard records a point.
CHYCHA CHYCHA BOOM BOOM
- Jakob Chychrun has scored the fourth-most goals and is tied for 16th in scoring among NHL blueliners.
- Chychrun became the second youngest Coyote defenseman (Oliver Ekman-Larsson) and fifth youngest franchise defenseman to reach 100 career points with an assist on Mar. 20th.
- He became the 14th defenseman to score 30 goals with the franchise on Feb. 6… his 21 goals since last season are the fourth-most among all NHL blueliners and the Coyotes are 8-0-0 when he scores a goal this season.
CH-CH-CH-CH-CHYCHRUN
- Jakob Chychrun enters tonight leading the team with 92 shots and 23:12 of time on ice… He is one of three players to have at least 92 shots with over 23 minutes of ice time per game (Ekblad, Nurse).
- The 22-year-old defenseman, along with Dougie Hamilton, are the only two blueliners to lead their team in shots.
- He has recently totaled career-highs in ice time for a regulation game (25:47 on 3/14 and 25:55 on 3/16)…He skated in a career-high 28:10 vs. LAK on Feb. 18.
HOW SWEDE IT IS
- Oliver Ekman-Larsson passed Keith Yandle for the most assists by a defenseman on Feb. 24th and the Captain now owns the following records among d-men in Coyotes history (games, goals, assists, points, PPGs, GWGs, SHGs (tied)).
- He is one of eight players to own all of their team's defensemen records among active NHL teams (BOS: Bourque, DAL: Zubov, DET: Lidstrom, MTL:
Robinson, NYI: Potvin, PIT: Letang, WPG: Byfuglien).
- In franchise history, he ranks 10th in points, first in goals and third in points by a defenseman, second in assists among defensemen and is tied for the fourth-most GWG’s (31) among all franchise players with Doug Smail.
- Since 2013-14, he ranks third in goals (109) second in PPGs (52) and is first in GWGs (28) among all NHL blueliners.
MOST POINTS IN FRANCHISE HISTORY 7. Doug Smail: 189-208-397 in 691 games
8. Oliver Ekman-Larsson: 126-254-380 in 748 games T9. Jeremy Roenick: 152-227-379 in 454 games T9. Laurie Boschman: 152-227-379 in 526 games
2021 REAL-TIME STATS LEADERS Blocked shots: Alex Goligoski (71) Hits: Christian Fischer (95)
Shots: Jakob Chychrun, Conor Garland (92) TOI/G: Jakob Chychrun (23:12)
2021 OVERTIME RESULTS: (0-3; 118-131-220 all-time)
Last overtime win: Nov. 4, 2019 at EDM (W, 3-2, GWG – D. Stepan) Last overtime loss: Mar. 18, 2021 at ANA (L, 3-2, GWG – A. Henrique)
2021 SHOOTOUT RESULTS: (3-2; 78-71 all-time)
Last shootout win: Mar. 23, 2021 vs. COL (W, 5-4, GDG – C. Garland) Last shootout loss: Feb. 18, 2021 vs. LAK (L, 3-2, GDG – G. Vilardi)
COYOTES’ RECORD IN 8 GAME SEGMENTS [W-L-OTL (PTS), GF/GA]
1-8: 3-4-1 (7), 20/22 9-16: 4-2-2 (10), 22/23 17-24: 4-4-0 (8), 23/28 25-32: 2-4-2 (6), 13/24 33-40: 3-0-0 (6), 14/6
MILESTONES APPROACHING (Player…Needs…Milestone) Derick Brassard…2 points from…500 career NHL points
RECENT MILESTONES REACHED (Player…Milestone…Date) Alex Goligoski…900 career NHL games…Mar. 22 vs. COL Phil Kessel…1,100 career NHL games…Mar. 26 vs. SJS