GAME STORY: Coyotes 1, Oilers 0

GLENDALE, AZ - Antti Raanta made 40 saves and Christian Dvorak scored the lone goal as the Oilers lose to the Arizona Coyotes by a score of 1-0.
The club drops their sixth straight, falling to 23-30-4 on the season.

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Cam Talbot made 31 saves while Ryan Strome, Anton Slepyshev and Oscar Klefbom each had four shots.
The Oilers went 4-for-4 on the penalty kill and 0-for-2 on the power play.
Milan Lucic had seven hits and Zack Kassian registered five.
In yet another game this season, goalie interference became the story.
"We challenge a goal, it stands," said Talbot. "They challenge a goal on us, for some reason, it's always waived off. I just don't understand it."
The Coyotes' goal came with physical contact made on Talbot, due to Yohann Auvitu and Christian Dvorak getting tied up in the paint.
Late in the game, when Edmonton appeared to have evened the game, Arizona's coach's challenge against Patrick Maroon resulted in the tally being called back.
"There was no doubt contact was made but I think the deflection was made before the contact had occurred," said Oilers Head Coach Todd McLellan of Arizona's goal.
"The other one, I thought their goaltender moved into Patty."
Dvorak's goal came on the first shot against the Oilers, the 11th time this season that's happened.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson fired a shot from the blueline and Dvorak got a piece of it in front. Dvorak and Auvitu were tangled up together, overtopping Talbot while the puck trickled past the line.
"As it stands right now, I think everybody is massively confused," said McLellan.
The Oilers elected to not challenge, giving the Coyotes the early 1-0 lead.
"To have what seems like every single one of these calls go against us the past two years is just unbelievable," said Talbot.
"I've never seen anything like it."

Edmonton followed up the goal by applying pressure. Jesse Puljujarvi and Lucic had a good shift down low in the 'Yotes zone. They worked the puck behind the goal line, eventually getting it to the front of the net where Jujhar Khaira appeared. With the puck bouncing, Khaira's shot went high and wide.
Edmonton exited the first period down by one but leading the shots 8-6.
Neither side scored in the middle stanza and much of that was attributed to the netminders.
Talbot stood tall, making 12 saves, several of which coming from prime opportunities: The netminder got a pad on the puck when Tobias Rieder caught a deflection off his skate; squared up to Jordan Martinook's short-side rip and robbed Christian Fischer late in the period.
The Oilers appeared to have tied it up in the third period when Klefbom's shot from the point hit a body in front and got past Raanta.
At first, the refs called it a good goal, however, Maroon was jostling in front of the net and made contact with Raanta.

The Coyotes challenged the goal and it was called back.
"We felt that was going to count," said McLellan. "It's certainly not black and white, the rule. We continue to see that game after game."
Puljujarvi received a minor late, which the Oilers killed, giving Edmonton less than two minutes to tie it up.
Raanta continued to keep the door closed to earn the shutout.
The Oilers conclude their three-game road trip Sunday against the Colorado Avalanche.