• In addition to leading Arizona in goals with 11, Brad Richardson also ranks first on the team in face-off winning percentage at 54.8.
• Christian Fischer ranks second on the team with 10 goals, just one behind Richardson, despite ranking 18th in ice time. Fischer skates 13:37 per game. All 10 of Fischer's goals have come at even strength.
• The Coyotes continue to lead the NHL in penalty killing at 88.3 percent. Opponents scored just 15 power-play goals in the first 41 games of the season.
• Oliver Ekman-Larsson needs one goal to tie Teppo Numminen for most goals scored by a defenseman in franchise history. Numminen tallied 108; Ekman-Larsson has 107.
• Kevin Connauton is expected to miss a second straight game because of a lower-body injury he suffered late in Wednesday's game vs. Edmonton. He is considered "day-to-day."
• After today's matinee, Arizona will play nine of its next 11 games on the road.
ABOUT THE RANGERS:
• New York has lost two games in a row, including a 6-1 defeat at Colorado on Friday, and was outscored 13-3 in those two games ... The Rangers are in 12th place in the Eastern Conference standings with 41 points ... Mika Zibanejad leads New York with 34 points and co-leads with 23 assists ... Chris Krieder has scored a team-high 20 goals, which is eight shy of his career-high for goals in a season set in 2016-17 ... Ryan Strome will enter the game with a three-game point streak ... Kevin Hayes did not play on Friday because of an upper-body injury and is day to day ... Henrik Lundqvist is expected to start in goal after sitting out Friday's game at Colorado. Lundqvist has won just three of his past 10 starts, and is 4-6-2 on the road this season with a 3.35 goals-against average.
'YOTES QUOTES:
•"When we had a healthy team, we knew we could compete. We're in a situation now where we're testing the depth of our organization ... Are we as talented now as we were (before the injuries)? No. But we can still do the right things. Hard work can overcome talented teams that don't work hard. That's something that we have to preach around here." -- Rick Tocchet
• "Our goal for the second half of the season is the same as the first half. We still want to be a playoff team. But you can't sit around and wait for that to happen, you have to make it happen ... We've got to stay disciplined against New York. They scored three power-play goals against us the last time we played them and that put us in a big hole. We ended up winning that game, but we have to play smarter this time." -- Lawson Crouse
• "We're in a day-to-day mode and just focused on playing New York right now, winning that game and getting those two points. Having said that, we obviously know where we are in standings and know that we need to get hot and go on a run in the second half to give ourselves a chance to make the playoffs." -- Jordan Oesterle
