Recap: Six Coyotes Score in Lopsided Win vs. Blues

GLENDALE --Adin Hill made 25 saves and six of his teammates scored a goal as the Coyotes blasted the St. Louis Blues, 6-1, on Saturday night at Gila River Arena to extend their winning streak to three games.
Hill, making just the sixth start of his NHL career, again filled in nicely for injured Antti Raanta and Darcy Kuemper. He's played in four games this season and has stopped all but one of 61 shots.

"I thought I had a good game, but once again our team did a great job boxing guys out and letting me see the puck," Hill said. "I feel like I would have to control a couple more rebounds there, but the guys did a good job clearing them out. It was an unreal game by the guys again."

Jakob Chychrun scored a power-play goal at 12:27 of the first period to give Arizona a 1-0 lead. The Coyotes then seized control of the game in the second period when they tallied four goals on 24 shots, both season-highs for one period. Clayton Keller, Christian Fischer, Nick Cousins and Richard Panik were the goal scorers, in that order.
"I thought we jumped on them," Head Coach Rick Tocchet said. "We wanted to get a good start. It's something we were lacking the last few games here and I thought guys were locked in. That's the way we've got to play and it was nice to see."

St. Louis played an overtime game on Friday night at Colorado and showed signs of fatigue vs. the Coyotes.
"We knew they played (Friday), went to overtime in a really hard-fought game," Fischer said. "We knew our identity is our speed and that's exactly what we did. We used it very well and they just got too tired."
• Keller, a St. Louis native, still gets excited when the Coyotes play the Blues. On Saturday, he harnessed that excitement and used it to produce a three-point game - one goal, two assists.
His eye-popping helper on Alex Goligoski's goal in the third period was the game's most memorable moment.

"That was one of those you don't see very often," Nick Schmaltz said. "Heck of a move. Two moves. Dance the guy to the middle, and then have the patience, a little toe drag and backhand feed. Not many players in this league can make that play."
Keller has notched a goal in three of the past four games and leads the Coyotes with eight in 25 games.
• Michael Grabner suffered a nasty injury in the first period when St. Louis forward Sammy Blais accidentally hit him in the face with his stick. Grabner immediately dropped to the ice and was eventually helped off the ice. He did not return to the game.
• Playing his first home game since coming to the Coyotes via a trade with Chicago on Sunday, Nick Schmaltz chipped in two assists and took five shots on goal. He also got to play against his older brother Jordan, a defenseman for the Blues. They've faced each other many times as NHLers, including five times already this season.

The Coyotes are 3-0-0 since acquiring Schmaltz and have outscored opponents, 9-1, since moving him from winger to center on the top line with Keller and Alex Galchenyuk.
"He's a skilled guy," Tocchet said of Schmaltz, who has produced a goal and three assists in three games with Arizona. "He's poised with the puck and his lateral movement is excellent. I think the sky's the limit on him, there's another level to him and he's done a nice job for us. We're very excited to have him."

• Robert Thomas scored the lone goal for St. Louis at 1:26 of the second period. His tally ended Hill's shutout streak to start a season at 116:23. Nevertheless, that's a franchise record by a goaltender for the longest stretch to begin a season before allowing a goal.
• Oliver Ekman-Larsson helped set up Panik's goal. It was the 200th assist of his NHL career.
• Calvin Pickard, whom the Coyotes claimed off waivers on Thursday, served as Hill's backup for the game.

• Keith Carney, who played for the Phoenix Coyotes from 1997-2001, dropped the ceremonial first puck.