Pre-Game Capsule: Coyotes vs. Canucks

GAME 62:
Coyotes (18-33-10) vs. Canucks (23-31-7)
Arizona will play the second game of back-to-back home games when it hosts Vancouver in Glendale for the first time this season on Sunday night.

WHERE: Gila River Arena
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. (AZ time)
TV: FOX Sports Arizona
RADIO:Arizona Sports 98.7 FM
KEY FACTS:
• The Coyotes, who beat Anaheim, 2-0, on Saturday night, are 1-6-2 in the second game of back-to-back games in 2017-18.
• This game is the first between Arizona and Vancouver this season. The teams will square off four times - twice in Glendale and twice in Vancouver - over a span of 39 days.
• Darcy Kuemper is expected to start in goal for the first time since Arizona acquired him via a trade with Los Angeles on Feb. 21. Kuemper posted a 10-1-3 record and a 2.10 goals-against average in 18 games with the Kings this season before the trade.

• The Coyotes did not stage a morning skate on Sunday so it's unclear whether forward Richard Panik will play vs. Vancouver. Panik missed Saturday's game because of a lower-body injury and is considered day-to-day.
• Laurent Dauphin could make his season debut with the Coyotes after being recalled from the American Hockey League on Saturday. Arizona traded Dauphin to Chicago last summer, but re-acquired him last month in the trade sent Anthony Duclair to the Blackhawks. Dauphin, who notched 15 points in 16 games with Tucson before being recalled, scored the first of his three NHL goals vs. Vancouver on Jan. 4, 2016.
"It's been a pretty long journey and I'm happy to be back here and back in the NHL," Dauphin said. "I've worked hard and I think I'm more ready than I've ever been. I play a ton of minutes (in the AHL) so I have a lot of chances, and I've been doing some pretty good work there. I just want to do the same thing up here."

• Arizona has taken a 1-0 lead in seven consecutive games and posted a 5-1-1 record in those games. Overall, the Coyotes are 14-13-5 when scoring first and 4-20-5 when opponents score first.
• Jakob Chychrun, who is just 19 years old, will play his 100th NHL game tonight.
• The Canucks are 2-7-1 in their past 10 games and are just seven points ahead of Arizona in the Western Conference standings. Henrik (51) and Daniel Sedin (49) have combined to total 100 points vs. the Coyotes in 64 games played. Goalie Jacob Markstrom is 3-1-0 with a .937 save percentage and 1.97 goals-against average in four career games vs. Arizona. Thomas Vanek recorded his 350th career goal on Friday at Vegas. He's just the third player selected in the 2003 NHL Draft to record 350 or more career goals. Eric Staal (371) and Corey Perry (361) are the others. Brock Boeser ranks first among NHL rookies with 27 goals and second with 51 points. He has scored 10 of his 27 goals on power plays. Only six NHLers have scored more.