'Yotes Notes: Archibald Scores First Goal with Arizona

GLENDALE --Josh Archibald scored his first goal as a member of the Coyotes on Thursday night in a 7-4 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs at Gila River Arena.
Arizona acquired Archibald from Pittsburgh last week via a trade and he hasn't disappointed. The 25-year-old forward has chipped in a goal, an assist and 10 hits in his first four games while playing about 15 minutes per game.
"He's a good team guy," Head Coach Rick Tocchet said after Thursday's game. "He's first on the forecheck and he buys into the system. He (plays) the way I want guys to play. He's done a nice job for us here."

Trailing 3-0, Archibald scored his goal at 14:15 of the first period. Stationed in front of Leafs goalie Frederik Andersen, Archibald swept a loose puck into Toronto's net. The goal was the fourth of Archibald's NHL career and his third at Gila River Arena. He scored two in Glendale in one game while playing for Pittsburgh last season.
"It was frustrating," Archibald said of the loss. "They're a speed team and unfortunately we couldn't slow down that speed through the neutral zone and into the offensive zone ... We regrouped a couple of times and unfortunately they just kept taking it to us. That's something we've got to learn from and get better at next game."

• Rookie Clayton Keller assisted on Jordan Martinook's goal at 18:33 of the second period to extend his point streak to seven games, matching a career-high streak he set earlier this season.
Keller has notched eight points (two goals, six assists) during the streak. He is one of just three players in the NHL to produce multiple point streaks of seven games or more this season. Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov and Josh Bailey of the New York Islanders are the others.
• The Coyotes were 1 for 6 on the power play and failed to score during a five-on-three segment that lasted 1:44 early in the second period. Amazingly, Arizona has not scored a goal on any of its 11 five-on-three advantages this season.
"The five-on-three we haven't been good at all year," Tocchet said. "I think it's a mental thing. We have guys right now that they're mentally having a tough time on it. Sometimes, the power play is instinctive. You've got to make the right play. You've just got to make a play. You're not looking for a home-run play. You make a four-foot pass, a guy walks in the slot, shoots the puck with a screen. Those are usually the goals on five-on-threes. We're trying to find personnel, trying to find guys that can make that play."

• Jakob Chychrun notched an assist and led the Coyotes in shots on goal (seven) and ice time (25:05).
• Martinook chipped in a goal, an assist and three hits.
"I don't think Toronto beat us tonight. We beat us," Martinook said. "It's getting to be, I don't know, I'm running out of words to say what the problem is. It's just happening over and over again and it's frustrating. We're such a fragile group, it seems, when something bad happens to us."

• Brendan Perlini scored his ninth goal of the season at 15:32 of the first period, ending a 12-game goal-scoring drought.
• With the loss, the Coyotes dropped to 0-6-1 in the second game of back-to-back games this season. Arizona beat Colorado, 3-1, in Denver on Wednesday and didn't arrive back in Arizona until early Thursday morning.
"Listen, we had a tough travel day, yeah, but I still think it's mental toughness, you know?" Tocchet said. "I think you guys saw it. It was just some individual mistakes. I don't have an answer for you. We were fine and a couple of individuals just made blatant mistakes."
• Goalie Scott Wedgewood stopped 26 of 32 shots in his first career game vs. the Maple Leafs. Tocchet opted to leave Wedgewood in the game despite allowing three goals within the first 11:25.
"I just didn't feel like pulling him," Tocchet said. "I thought I'd just let him battle a little bit. Sometimes it's good to battle. And we did. We came back. We came close there."
On the plus side, Wedgewood stopped all 10 shots he faced in the third period. Toronto scored its seventh goal into an empty net with 2:30 left.
"I felt good, which is the weird thing in a six-goal game," Wedgewood said. "I thought everything I was doing was great ... The Washington game, I didn't feel great at all and we win. I feel awesome in this game and you get six (goals) on you."