Shane Doan scores twice to lift Coyotes over division rival Canucks 3-2

VANCOUVER - Coyotes captain Shane Doan scored twice as Arizona defeated the division rival Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Monday night.

Laurent Dauphin also scored for the Coyotes (19-16-4). The 39-year-old Doan leads his team in goals (15), and has nine in his last seven games.

Louis Domingue, taking over for the injured Mike Smith, made 35 saves in his third straight start for Arizona, which remains second in the Pacific Division with 42 points. Vancouver now trials the Coyotes by three points in the tight Pacific standings.

Daniel Sedin and Bo Horvat scored Vancouver (15-16-9), which is in the midst of a season-long, seven-game homestand. Jacob Markstrom made 26 saves in his fifth straight start in place of Ryan Miller (groin).

It was a rough first period for Canucks star Daniel Sedin. Three minutes into the game Arizona's Michael Stone swatted the puck and it hit Sedin in the face. Sedin, with blood gushing from his mouth, had to leave for medical treatment but returned later in the period. There was no penalty called on the play.

Midway in the second, former Canuck Brad Richardson fired a shot from the slot before Doan jumped at the rebound, forcing Markstrom to make a diving crease save.

Doan would get his goal, however, minutes later when he redirected Connor Murphy's shot from the top of the face-off circle to open the scoring at 13:05.

The Canucks, desperate for a power-play goal after going nine games (0-for-20) without one, finally took advantage of the extra attacker when Horvat put back his own rebound for his first goal since Nov. 2.

But the Coyotes silenced the Vancouver cheers just seconds later when Dauphin fired home a loose puck to make it 2-1.

Arizona made it 3-1 on the power play early in the third as Rieder, standing alone in front of Markstrom, beat the Vancouver goalie and hit the post before Doan swooped in to deposit the rebound.

Arizona's Michael Stone had his point-shot goal called back at 15:25 on a successful coach's challenge that the Coyotes were offside. That quickly changed momentum, as Daniel Sedin scored six seconds later on a great saucer pass from Henrik Sedin to make it a one-goal game. But Vancouver couldn't complete the comeback.