In a give and take game in Tempe, the Coyotes edged out the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night, 4-3, on penalties.
The teams traded goals in each period to end regulation in a 3-3 tie.
Connor Ingram made 35 saves in the win.
Arizona improved to 6-5-1.
“Even when you don’t have your A-game, you need to find a way to crawl in and dig deep and find a way to win the game, and I think we did that,” Arizona coach Andre Tourigny said. “We battled and crawled back.”
Clayton Keller hit for a power play goal in the third period to tie the game, 3-3, to force the extra session which solved nothing.
“It’s a tight league. Every game is a battle and close,” Seattle defenseman Justin Schultz said. “We’re doing a lot of good things, but especially in overtime, [they’re] not going in right now for us.”
The Coyotes’ Nick Bjugstad was the lone striker on penalties.
“We did a good job of doing the right things at most points in the game. We weathered the storm, and Ingram came up huge for us in situations when we didn’t,” Bjugstad said. “It was a back-and-forth game, we had our chances, they had their chances and it was huge to come up with the two points.”
Seattle took a 3-2 lead on a strike by Jaden Schwartz off the power-play at 1:16 of the third.
“I think we can be proud of some aspects of our game,” Kraken defenseman Jamie Oleksiak said. “As a group, obviously, we didn’t get the job done. … We’ve just got to do a better job realizing some of the [key] moments in the game and not give them the timely goals they got.”
Keller replied just 42 seconds later to knot it up, again.
The Kraken needed 40 seconds of game fresh ice to take a 1-0 lead on a breakaway goal from Eeli Tolvanen.
Arizona’s Matias Maccelli tied it, 1-1, at 6:07 of the first.
The Coyotes took their first lead in the middle frame on a tip in marker from Barrett Hayton at 3:59 of the period.
“I’m a competitor, I want to score, I want to produce, without a doubt,” Hayton said. “You’ve got to trust the process, stick with what you’re doing, and I feel I can impact the game without [being] on the score sheet. But obviously, that was nice.”
Seattle had their own reply with a strike by Schultz with less than a minute of elapsed time gone.
“I felt like we were skating and playing with speed and were predictable for each other, playing the way we know how to and what made us successful last year,” Schultz said. “We’ll just build off the good things we did, but it’s [bad] not getting the two points.”
Seattle dropped to 4-6-3.
Joey Daccord made 24 saves in the loss.
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