In Columbus, Darcy Kuemper made 33 saves as the Arizona Coyotes defeated the Blue Jackets, 4-2, on Tuesday.
“This is a tough team to play against, especially in their building,” Kuemper said. “They were flying tonight. We just did a good job of holding our structure and containing them best we could.
“The structure was good in front of me. When it’s like that your reads are a lot easier, you’re seeing the puck. [I’m] just trying to chip in and do my part as well.”
Dean Kukan and Alexandre Texier had goals for the Blue Jackets who dropped to 11-12-4.
“It’s been like that almost the whole season,” Kukan said. “We can’t score goals. That’s the main issue we have. All in all, we played a good game.”
Clayton Keller staked the Coyotes to an early 1-0 lead.
“Sometimes when things aren’t going well, you’re not feeling good, sometimes you throw pucks to the net, it hits something and goes in,” Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said.
Carl Soderberg, Christian Fischer and Lawson Crouse also scored for Arizona.
“We played a good game from the start,” Soderberg said. “We got the first goal. We were pretty solid over three periods.”
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Joonas Korpisalo made 24 saves in the loss.
“We’re just not finding the back of the net consistently enough and end up with some of the goals against us, [that was] just tough puck luck for us,” Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella said. “But that’s what happens, and we have to force it to try to go the other way.”
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