“We played a full 60 minutes tonight,” Hill said. “Guys played desperate hockey tonight. Played simple, but played the way we have to and got the job done.”
Arizona failed on a chance to solidify its playoff chances over the past two weeks, losing four of five games to drop behind St. Louis for the West Division’s final playoff spot.
The Coyotes played the Golden Knights, the division’s top team, with a playoff-like intensity in a physical, fast-paced game.
John Hayden and Michael Bunting scored, and Arizona shut down a Vegas team that had outscored teams 45-17 during its franchise-long win streak. Hill finished off his second shutout this season - third career- and Christian Fischer capped it with an empty-net goal, allowing the Coyotes to pull within three points of the Blues for fourth in the West.
Coyotes end Golden Knights 10-game win streak with 3-0 win
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Un 7e succès de suite pour Fiala et le Wild
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Avs Gaining Confidence After Sweeping Blues
Players say the tight games should help them in the stretch run and beyond by Ron Knabenbauer @RonKnab / ColoradoAvalanche.com
The Colorado Avalanche might be on a 14-game point streak, but the team s recent success hasn t been as easy as it might appear.
The squad has had to show its versatility to win different ways during the run, and Colorado played in two such outings in the back-to-back set against the St. Louis Blues.
On Friday, the Avs had a 3-2 lead at the second intermission and held on for the victory. Saturday saw St. Louis play a tough, tighter game with the score tied at 1-1 for most of the night, but Colorado stuck with its game plan and won 2-1 after Cale Makar s shot found twine in the final minute of regulation.