In Ottawa Saturday afternoon, the Senators didn’t seem to consider the Arizona Coyotes a threat and it bit them on the heels
Antti Raanta made 30 saves as the Coyotes stopped the Sens, 3-2, in extra time.
“It’s always tough to be in and out of the lineup,” Duclair said. “At the same time, it starts in practice. It starts with preparation. You want to do your best every night to help the team win. You have to keep a positive attitude. That’s the main key. Every time you get an opportunity you want to take it and run away with it.”
Anthony Duclair completed a natural hat trick at 1:23 of the extra session to score all three Arizona goals.
“[Duclair], even if he hasn’t been playing a lot, he’s been working individually, [with] extra time on the ice. He’s a great guy to be around. He’s been supportive even though he hasn’t been playing,” Raanta said, “When he gets a chance you can see he doesn’t want to go to the scratching room anymore. He has the skill. He can score goals. He can make the plays. Today we saw three of those. I’m so happy for him.”
Mark Stone and Mark Borowiecki struck for the Sens goals.
“We did enough to score goals, we just didn’t score them,” Sens head coach Guy Boucher said. “When it was 2-1 we had many chances to bury them, and we didn’t. Whether we hit a post, or shot beside the net, or didn’t see the open guy, we just couldn’t get the one … but you’ve got to be able to win 2-1, you have to.
“It’s not even about getting that third one, it’s about not giving [up] that last one.”
The first time this season, Arizona has won two straight games.
“The Winnipeg game was just ‘Enough is enough,’ kind of,” Raanta said. “Everything went downhill there. When we went to Montreal we had a meeting and we talked about what we wanted to do. Even though it was 2-0 after the first period in Montreal, in here it was 2-1 after the second period, we didn’t give up. You get a couple of wins like this, it feels great. It’s nice to see everybody smiling.”
The Coyotes improved to 4-15-3 with the win.
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Mike Condon took the loss on 25 saves.
“That was two points we probably needed to get, or should have had. I don’t think we played bad, but we just didn’t play good enough to win,” the Senators’ Mark Borowiecki said after the loss.
Ottawa dropped to 8-4-6 on the season.
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