Martinook scores in 3rd to lift Coyotes over Hurricanes
Mar 3, 2017, 9:12 PM
Arizona Coyotes' Shane Doan (19) and Jordan Martinook (48) celebrate Martinook's winning goal during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, March 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
(AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
RALEIGH, N.C. — Jordan Martinook scored midway through the third period to lift the Arizona Coyotes over the Carolina Hurricanes 4-2 on Friday night.
Shane Doan added a power-play empty-net goal with 58 seconds left and also had two assists. Christian Dvorak and Alex Goligoski also scored for Arizona, which snapped a five-game skid against Carolina and a two-game slide overall. Louis Domingue made 32 saves.
Carolina got goals from Lee Stempniak and Jordan Staal to erase an early 2-0 deficit, but still lost its fourth straight. Cam Ward stopped 18 shots.
Martinook scored 9:02 into the third. Doan passed from behind the net to Martinook in front, and he beat Ward from the low slot.
Dvorak scored 11:34 into the first by taking Doan’s cross-ice pass on a rush and beating Ward high to the glove side.
Goligoski made it 2-0 with 2:31 left in the first. He beat Ward stick side off a centering pass from former Hurricane Radim Vrbata, who got his team-best 33rd assist.
Stempniak scored nearly two minutes later, re-directing Jaccob Slavin’s blast from the left point over Domingue’s left shoulder. Jay McClement, playing in his 900th NHL game, got a point in his second straight game.
Staal tied it at 1:30 of the second, taking a centering pass from Teuvo Tervainen and slamming the puck past Domingue on the open glove side of the net.
NOTES: Coyotes LW Jamie McGinn is the older brother of Hurricanes LW Brock McGinn. … Vrbata played 106 games with Carolina from 2002-06. … Brock McGinn (upper body) missed his second straight game while D Matt Tennyson was a healthy scratch for Carolina. … Arizona C Alexander Burmistrov (upper body) missed his second straight game while Kevin Connauton (upper body) was also out. LW Teemu Pulkkinen was a healthy extra. … Carolina C Andrej Nestrasil was sent to Charlotte of the AHL on Friday.
UP NEXT
Coyotes: Host Carolina on Sunday night in the opener of a four-game homestand.
Hurricanes: Visit Arizona on Sunday night to begin a two-game trip.
