Head Coach Dave Tippett spoke with harsher words.
"We took penalties and our puck play was just red-rotten," Tippett said. "...It's one thing for them to push. It's another for us to put the push on a platter. That's what we did."
• Backup goalie Louis Domingue had little to say to reporters after giving up five goals on 33 shots in his first game since Jan. 19.
"Honestly guys, I've got no answer for you," Domingue said. "I play once a month. It wasn't good enough. So I have zero answers for the rest of your questions."
Tippett also had just a few words to describe Domingue's performance.
"Very average," Tippett said. "(It was) a good challenge for him, and not so good."
• Trailing, 3-2, late in the second period, the Coyotes went on a 5-on-3 power play for 94 seconds. They did not produce a shot on goal.
"Our 5-on-3 didn't execute very well," Tippett said. "There's a couple situations that we tried to run on it, and we had too many people on their own page out there. We didn't execute. We didn't get it done."