Pre-Game Capsule: Coyotes at Golden Knights

GAME 77:
Coyotes (26-39-11) at Golden Knights (48-21-7)
Arizona will look to beat Vegas for the first time in five tries this season. The Coyotes are 0-2-2 vs. the NHL's playoff-bound expansion team, and have been outscored, 14-7, in those games.

WHERE: T-Mobile Arena
WHEN: 7 p.m. (AZ time)
TV: FOX Sports Arizona Plus
RADIO:ESPN 620 AM

KEY FACTS:
• The Coyotes are 2-2-0 thus far on a six-game road trip, including a resounding 4-1 win over Tampa Bay on Monday at Amalie Arena.
• Four different Coyotes goalies have tended net vs. Vegas this season. Antti Raanta will start the final matchup after stopping 19 of 20 shots vs. the Lightning. Raanta has won six of his past seven starts, and he stopped 201 of 211 shots faced in those games. That's a .952 save percentage.
• Clayton Keller will enter tonight's game with a career-high nine-game point streak, in which he's notched 13 points (five goals and eight assists). Keller, who also is riding a three-game goal-scoring streak and a five-game assist streak, ranks second among NHL rookies with 61 points and 38 assists, and fifth in goals with 23.
• With a goal and three assists, Derek Stepan is averaging a point per game vs. Vegas this season. Stepan leads Arizona with 40 assists, which ties his career-high for assists in a season set in 2013-14.

• Oliver Ekman-Larsson has tallied nine of his 39 points this season in March, including five of his 13 goals.
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• Christian Dvorak quietly is having a solid season. He ranks third on the Coyotes with 15 goals, fifth in points with 35 and second in face-off winning percantage at 51.6.
• Vegas ranks first in the Pacific Division, and third in the Western Conference, with 103 points. The Golden Knights clinched a berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs by beating Colorado on Monday. William Karlsson leads Vegas and ranks fourth in the NHL with 40 goals. Jonathan Marchessault, who leads Vegas with 72 points, is riding a five-game point streak. Marc-Andre Fleury, who recently moved into a tie for 11th place on the NHL's list for wins by a goalie, is expected to start in net. Fleury has 403 victories, including 28 this season, his first with the expansion team, and seven vs. the Coyotes.

COYOTE BITES
• "Obviously we know them a little bit more now and they know us. In saying that, this is one of, if not the, toughest buildings to play in the League. They've got a great crowd and it's a great show they put on and they play great on home ice. They're a fast team and there's no holes in their lineup ... We're just going to have to try to follow up what we did in Tampa Bay, and try not to focus on the results, but the process throughout the game." -- Luke Schenn on Vegas
• "We played them a lot in the early parts of the year. I think we're a different group in here. This is an important game for us. We want to make sure that we don't let them get all five." -- Derek Stepan on avoiding being swept by Vegas
• "From Day 1 they believed in who they are and they believe in their system. They get the puck to the net, they go to the net. Their transition game is as good as any that I know of in the League, and they've got a great goaltender ... This is a dangerous team. This is a team that I wouldn't want to play in the playoffs ... We have to manage the puck. We know what they're going to do. It's a matter of if we execute." -- Rick Tocchet on what make's Vegas so good