'Yotes Notes: Arizona Scores Season-High Six Goals

Playing the 3,000th game in franchise history, the Coyotes notched a season-high six goals on Monday night during a resounding 6-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks at Gila River Arena.
Arizona scored two goals in each period to end a nine-game losing streak vs. Chicago.
Antti Raanta stopped 37 of 38 shots faced, and six players tallied goals for Arizona. Eleven Coyotes notched at least one point and five notched two.

"I just like to see some guys scoring," Coyotes Head Coach Rick Tocchet said. "It's nice. Hopefully it gets some confidence and loosens some people up."
Max Domi set the tone by scoring his fourth goal of the season at 1:32 of the first period. The goal was Domi's first since Dec. 16.
"It's been a while," Domi said. "Everyone always says it's the ugly and tough ones that get you going. We'll take that. I was pretty happy. It was a lot of fun out there. We didn't have a single passenger. Everyone was contributing, everyone wanted to be a part of it. No one let up. When you have a lead on a team like that, it's crucial to stay on them, and we did."

Clayton Keller, Alex Goligoski, Tobias Rieder, Nick Cousins and Christian Dvorak, who grew up in the Chicago area rooting for the Blackhawks, also scored goals for Arizona.
"I think everyone was giving it their all out there and that showed for sure," Dvorak said. "Hopefully we can keep doing that going forward and keep playing like that and good things will happen."

• Raanta, who started his NHL career with Chicago in 2013-14, earned his 10th win of the season.
"Lots of shots," Raanta said. "I like those games when you actually need to work hard to get the win. Of course it helps when your team scores six goals, so it's a little easier ... Playing a couple years (for the Blackhawks), you kind of have a little bit of a taste of what they can do. But it's a big challenge also."
• Goligoski's goal stretched his point streak to four games. He ranks third on the team and first among defensemen with 28 points.
• Cousins, who entered his first season with Arizona with 12 goals in 107 NHL games, scored his 10th goal of the season in his 45th game.
• Derek Stepan assisted on Keller's team-leading 16th goal in the first period to extend his point streak to four games.
• NBA icon Charles Barkley, who led the 1992-93 Phoenix Suns to the NBA Finals, attended the game and dropped the ceremonial first puck. Barkley, a longtime friend of Tocchet's, also visited Arizona's dressing room after the win and mingled with some of the players.