ARIZONA COYOTES

Coyotes end road trip with loss to Canucks

Jan 18, 2024, 11:09 PM | Updated: Jan 19, 2024, 12:06 am

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Jason Zucker #16 of the Arizona Coyotes in action against the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center on December 21, 2023 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Dakota Joshua broke a tie with 58 seconds left in the second period and the NHL-leading Vancouver Canucks beat the Arizona Coyotes 2-1 on Thursday night for their sixth victory in seven games.

Thatcher Demko stopped 20 shots and Elias Pettersson also scored to help the Canucks improve to 30-11-4, good for a one-point lead over East-leading Boston. Teddy Blueger, J.T. Miller, Quinn Hughes and Nils Hoglander had assists.

Travis Dermott scored his first goal of the season for the Coyotes, and Connor Ingram made 24 saves. Arizona dropped to 21-19-3.

“I think you can see a lot of good things from our team,” Dermott said. “So it’s tough, not coming out with the two points, but with how we’ve been kind of battling to figure out our identity here lately, I think we can take so many positives from that game.”

Joshua put Vancouver ahead by burying his own rebound past Ingram for his 12th goal of the season.

Pettersson scored with 3:11 left in the first hammering home a one-timer off a feed from Quinn Hughes. Dermott and the Coyotes responded two minutes later.

“We played hard. We played solid,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny. “They’re a really good team. They’re fast, they’re good and in the first period my feeling after the period is that’s the best team we played.

“They were fast, hard on pucks, they play well in their structure and we got better during the game, every shift I think our guys worked extremely hard, we had good puck pressure, we defend really hard. I think we played a rock solid 5-on-5.”

The Coyotes host Nashville on Saturday.

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