Kaprizov’s shot from the point deflected off Arizona defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin for Kaprizov’s seventh goal of the season. We definitely played a better game in the second and third.” The only good thing about that is our team, we acknowledge stuff like that and just speak about it and know it’s not good. “We knew it wasn’t our style of play, and we were definitely playing down to the opposition and it wasn’t good. “We acknowledged it in the intermission,” Foligno said of the team’s play in the first. Minnesota answered with Eriksson Ek’s ninth goal of the season just over a minute later.įrom then on, it was all Wild, who scored three times in the second period. But Keller gained control and fired a shot as he spun around, beating Kahkonen. Phil Kessel passed across the slot to Keller, who had trouble controlling the pass.
Keller got the Coyotes off to a strong start in the second game of the back-to-back, opening the scoring 5:58 into the first. … Moral victories are sometimes overrated, but on the same time, we knew we did good things today.”
I think we got better today in a lot of thing in our game and we have a lot of positive to build on. “We made strides in the right direction, which we want to get better every day,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny said. Clayton Keller and Anton Stralman scored for Arizona, which has lost three of four.Īfter rookie Karel Vejmelka posted his first career shutout a night earlier at Winnipeg, Scott Wedgewood made the start in goal and stopped 32 shots for Arizona.