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Gila River Arena, 8 p.m.
TV: TSN3
Radio: TSN 1290
ABOUT THE COYOTES
- Arizona was lit up by David Backes and the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday in Glendale, falling 6-0.
Mike Smith was in the net for all six Blues goals — including four in a row by Backes — but hardly drew any blame from head coach Dave Tippett afterward.
“After they got that fourth (goal) on a poor mistake by us, it would have been easy to take (Smith) out,” said Tippett. “But the shots were 32-14. That’s not a goaltender problem; that’s a people-in-frontof- them problem.
“To take the goaltender out in that situation, you’re letting a lot of guys off the hook, and we need more guys on the hook in that room. We weren’t even close in that game. Let’s be honest, that’s not a goaltender issue, that’s a look-in-the-mirror issue… That’s garbage.”
- Arizona is now 15-20-4, ahead of only Edmonton in the Pacific Division and Western Conference standings. The Coyotes are averaging 3.28 goals against per game, 28th in the NHL, and are 25th in goals for at 2.28. Tuesday’s loss to the Blues was the seventh time this season Arizona has been shut out in a game.
- The Coyotes’ power play is a solid seventh overall in the NHL, but their penalty kill is the league’s worst. Defenceman Keith Yandle leads Arizona in scoring (4G, 22A), with 17 of his points coming with the man advantage.
- Arizona’s Yandle and Antoine Vermette are working on the second and third-longest active consecutive-games-played streaks in the NHL. Vermette is at 431 games and Yandle at 423 games, Only Anaheim’s Andrew Cogliano (581) has a longer active streak.
WINNIPEG JETS
31 Ondrej Pavelec
34 Michael Hutchinson
2 Adam Pardy
4 Paul Postma
14 Anthony Peluso
15 Matt Halischuk
16 Andrew Ladd
17 Adam Lowry
18 Bryan Little
19 Jim Slater
21 T.J. Galiardi
22 Chris Thorburn
23 Jay Harrison
24 Grant Clitsome
26 Blake Wheeler
28 Patrice Cormier
33 Dustin Byfuglien
44 Zach Bogosian
49 Julien Brouillette
55 Mark Scheifele
63 Ben Chiarot
67 Michael Frolik
85 Mathieu Perreault
ARIZONA COYOTES
40 Devan Dubnyk
41 Mike Smith
3 Keith Yandle
4 Zbynek Michalek
5 Connor Murphy
8 Tobias Rieder
9 Sam Gagner
10 Martin Erat
11 Martin Hanzal
14 Joe Vitale
18 David Moss
19 Shane Doan
20 Chris Summers
22 Brandon McMillan
23 Oliver Ekman-Larsson
24 Kyle Chipchura
26 Michael Stone
28 Lauri Korpikoski
33 Brandon Gormley
38 Lucas Lessio
44 B.J. Crombeen
50 Antoine Vermette
89 Mikkel Boedker
— Ed Tait
