• Galchenyuk will enter tonight's game riding a three-game point streak (two goals, two assists), which is tied for his season-long. Galchenyuk has been productive vs. the Ducks in his career with four goals and four assists in nine games.
• After starting his NHL career with zero points in seven games, rookie Conor Garland, like Galchenyuk, has notched a point in each of the past three games (two goals, one assist).
• The Coyotes will again play minus center Brad Richardson, who leads the team with 10 goals. Richardson did not travel with the team on this trip to southern California because he has the flu.
• Jakob Chychrun, who scored Arizona's lone goal in a 2-1 loss at Los Angeles on Thursday, has scored the most goals (13) and power-play goals (five) among all defensemen drafted in 2016.
• Oliver Ekman-Larsson is two points shy of tying Keith Yandle for most points by a Coyotes defenseman. Yandle notched 311 in 558 games; Ekman-Larsson has produced 309 in 613 games.
ABOUT THE DUCKS:
• Anaheim has scored just four goals during a four-game losing streak, but still ranks seventh in the Western Conference with 43 points ... The Ducks have earned at least one point in 15 of their 19 home games (10-4-5) ... Ryan Getzlaf leads the team in points (29), assists (20) and points-per-game (.91), and ranks tied for second in goals (nine). Against the Coyotes, he's notched 19 goals and 45 assists in 66 career games ... Pontus Aberg leads the Ducks with 11 goals, and he's scored five of those goals over the past 11 games ... Chad Johnson, who is playing for his eighth NHL team, is expected to start in goal in place of injured John Gibson. Backup goalie Ryan Miller also is injured.
'YOTES QUOTES:
• "We're not scoring a whole lot of goals so we've got to make sure that we're really sharp without the puck. We're in playoff hockey right now. We're fighting for our (postseason) lives already. The biggest key is we can't look at it as a big picture, we have to take it a game at a time and try to just chip away. If we stick with playing the right way, and playing the way we like to play, it's going to give us the best chance to gather as many points as we can." -- Derek Stepan
• "The Ducks are a good team, and we need to bounce back from a loss the other night in LA. Everybody in our room knows where we are in the standings, but we can't think about that too much when we're playing the games. At the same time, we've got to play with urgency and do whatever it takes to win hockey games. That's what we're trying to focus on." -- Oliver Ekman-Larsson
