Coyotes rally from three goals down for second straight game to top Ducks

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Phil Kessel had a goal and an assist, and the Arizona Coyotes rallied from three goals down for the second straight game against the Anaheim Ducks to win 4-3 in a shootout at Gila River Arena on Wednesday.

"We never thought we were out of it," Kessel said.
The Coyotes are the second team in NHL history to win after trailing by three goals in consecutive games against the same opponent. The Quebec Nordiques (now the Colorado Avalanche) did it against the Hartford Whalers (now the Carolina Hurricanes) on April 2-3, 1983.
"It's exciting to know your team can turn around a game like that, that you're never out of it," Arizona goalie Adin Hill said. "That's two games in a row, down 3-0, and these guys came back and found a way to get two points. That's huge."
Hill made 14 saves on 14 shots -- including a game-saving glove save against Isac Lundestrom at 2:28 of overtime -- in relief of Darcy Kuemper (18 saves) for the Coyotes (9-7-3). Hill, Arizona's No. 3 goalie, hadn't played since Feb. 19, 2020.
"He was phenomenal," Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said. "It's a testament to guys that you've got to believe, you can't sit around and pout if you're not in there. He's why we won the game."

Ryan Miller made 25 saves for the Ducks (6-11-3), who lost their fifth in a row and sixth in seven games.
Max Comtois had a goal and an assist, and Cam Fowler had two assists for the Ducks, who lost 4-3 Monday when Arizona scored four straight goals.
"We've just got to do our best to stay positive right now, it's tough to go through something like this," said Ducks forward Max Jones, who scored for the second straight game. "I mean, honestly, we're playing the right way. It's just the full 60 minutes that we need to to maintain and, for some reason, we're just struggling with that right now."

Tyler Pitlick and Jakob Chychrun also scored when Arizona tied it with three goals in 6:34 after trailing 3-0 midway through the third period.
Pitlick started the comeback by deflecting Oliver Ekman-Larsson's shot at 10:05 to cut it to 3-1.
"The mindset was come out there, play hard and try and get one (goal) and if we got one, we know we can get things rolling, and that's exactly what we did," said Hill, who won for the first time since Jan. 14, 2020.

Chychrun's one-timer from the right face-off circle deflected off defenseman Jani Hakanpää's stick and past Miller at 11:49, making it 3-2. Ducks coach Dallas Eakins then called a timeout.
"If we would have just scored at that point … we would have been jacked up and excited, and I just wanted a minute for us to try to reset," Eakins said. "That second goal was a tough one for us, it ends up hitting a stick and going in our own net. That was a real kick in the butt to us."
Kessel, left alone near the right post, tied it 3-3 with this third goal in four games at 16:39.
"We went to 2 1/2 lines and just pushed the pace," Tocchet said. "It's one of those things where you don't stop believing. But obviously we can't keep a steady dose of this."
Conor Garland and Chychrun scored in the shootout, and 19-year-old forward Trevor Zegras -- playing his second NHL game -- was the only successful Anaheim shooter.
Comtois backhanded the rebound of Hakanpaa's shot between his own legs and inside the right post at 19:48 of the first for a 1-0 lead.
Josh Mahura's goal on a wrist shot from the point off his rebound made it 2-0 at 7:58 of the second and was his first goal since Nov. 20, 2019.
Jones's power-play goal made it 3-0 at 15:46 of the second, and Hill then replaced Kuemper.
NOTES: Six NHL teams have rallied from down three goals in successive games to win against separate opponents. ... The Coyotes are 3-2-2 on a nine-game homestand that ends with games against the Colorado Avalanche on Friday and Saturday. … Kessel has scored six points (three goals, three assists) during a four-game point streak. … The Coyotes have trailed in five of their nine wins. ... Miller was denied his 389th NHL win, which would have tied him with Dominik Hasek for 14th in NHL history.