The Wild exploded for three more goals throughout the second period, beginning with Kirill Kaprizov shooting the puck through traffic from the high slot. Greenway widened the Wild's lead to 3-1 by deflecting a Jon Merrill shot past Scott Wedgewood, and Jonas Brodin made it 4-1 with a goal just 2.9 seconds before the second period buzzer.
"[The Wild] play simple," said Tourigny. "They win battles in the corner and get pucks on the net, they play low-to-high, they find way to put pucks on the net. So you're in a battle all the time."
Stralman gave the Coyotes some life early in the third period with a shot from the point to cut the Wild lead in half. However, the momentum was extinguished when Marcus Foligno reinstated the three-goal lead just under two minutes later.
The 5-2 score held the rest of the way, and the Coyotes closed the back-to-back set with one win and one loss.
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The Game:
First Period (ARI 1, MIN 1):Clayton Keller (6), assisted by Phil Kessel (9) and Shayne Gostisbehere (13) at 5:58. /// Joel Eriksson Ek (9), assisted by Dmitry Kulikov (9) and Jordan Greenway (4) at 7:06.
Second Period (MIN 4, ARI 1):Kirill Kaprizov (7), assisted by Ryan Hartman (5) and Alex Goligoski (12) at 7:20. /// Jordan Greenway (1), assisted by Jon Merrill (6) and Victor Rask (4) at 14:19. /// Jonas Brodin (3), assisted by Kirill Kaprizov (18) and Ryan Hartman (6) at 19:56.
Third Period (MIN 5, ARI 2):Anton Stralman (2), assisted by Jakob Chychrun (5) and Clayton Keller (9) at 5:58. /// Marcus Foligno (9), assisted by Jonas Brodin (8) and Jordan Greenway (5) at 7:42.
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Statistics:
SOG:ARI - 31, MIN - 37
PP:ARI - 0/2, MIN - 0/4
Hits:ARI - 18, MIN - 27
Blocks:ARI - 10, MIN - 8
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Tourigny's Take: "I'm happy about a lot of stuff today. I'm happy about our breakout, I'm happy about the offense we created, I'm happy about a lot of stuff. We made strides in the right direction and we want to get better every day. It was one of those days. We got better today in a lot of our game and we have a lot of positives to build on. Moral victories are sometimes overrated, but at the same time we know we did some good things."
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Anton Stralman said: "There's always things to work on. I still think there was a lot of things in this game that we liked and did well…The small details in our game cost us tonight, and those are the things we need to fix and work on."
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Notable:
• Clayton Keller (1-1-2) picked up his sixth goal of the season fourth multi-point game of the campaign. He enters Friday with team-lead in both categories.
• Keller also enters Friday with nine points (3-6-9) in his last seven games.
• Keller's seven shots on goal ties the individual season-high for the Coyotes (Chychrun; Nov. 18 vs CBJ).
• Since relocating to Arizona (1996-97), Shayne Gostisbehere became the third Coyote defenseman to record 11-plus points in a month of November (Ed Jovanovski and Oliver Ekman-Larsson). He's the 10th Coyote defenseman (24th instance) to tally at least 11 points in any month over that same span.
• Gostisbehere (3-13-16) maintained his team-lead in points by picking up an assist on Tuesday.
• The Coyotes penalty kill in the last six games (since Nov. 20) is operating at 90% (18-for-20), including killing each of their opponents last 11 power play opportunities.
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Coyotes Lineup:
Forwards
Keller - Boyd - Kessel
Crouse - Hayton - Fischer
Roussel - Dzingel - Eriksson
O'Brien - Larsson - Fasching
Defensemen
Chychrun - Capobianco
Gostisbehere - Mayo
Lyubushkin - Strålman
Scratches
Dineen
Ladd
Galchenyuk
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Roster Notes:Hudson Fasching returned to the lineup after being a healthy scratch on Monday, along with Johan Larsson playing in his first game since Nov. 13 after being removed from the NHL's COVID-19 protocol.
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What's Next: The Coyotes are off from game action for the next two days prior to facing the Vegas Golden Knights at home on Friday (Dec. 3). Puck drop at Gila River Arena is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. and will be broadcasted exclusively on Hulu/ESPN+ along with ESPN 620 AM for radio.
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Photo of the Game: Clayton Keller awaits the rest of his teammates to celebrate his game-opening goal. Tuesday was the fourth time this season Keller scored the first goal of a contest.
