In Glendale, the visiting Winnipeg Jets defeated the Coyotes, 3-1, on Tuesday night.
Connor Hellebuyck made 26 saves in the Jets win.
The Coyotes hung around most of the game to keep it close, 2-0, through 40 minutes play.
Shayne Gostisbehere scored in the third period to cut the Jets’ lead to 2-1.
“The first two periods were good, we had scoring chances, but I think in the third period we were too passive,” Coyotes head coach Andre Tourigny said. “We’re waiting for offense to happen by itself. It was 2-1 and we made a strong push to tie it, but the goalie was pretty good.
Evgeny Svechnikov and Pierre-Luc Dubois struck for the Jets to give them the 2-0 lead.
“We want to be a hard team to play against,” coach Dave Lowry said. “We want to be a team that is physical. We’d like to be aggressive on pucks. We want to be a relentless team, and that’s something we talk about.”
Winnipeg improved to 16-11-5.
“We were able to grab a loose puck, and when we do get opportunities as soon as we turn the puck over, we want our mindset to be that we want to go into attack mode,” Lowry said.
Nikolaj Ehlers added an empty-net goal to ice the win for the Jets.
The Coyotes dropped to 6-22-3.
“Obviously there were some mistakes, but they’re a good hockey club and it was 2-1 there with five minutes left and we were in position to win in this game,” the Coyotes’ Clayton Keller said.
Karel Vejmelka made 46 saves in the Arizona loss.
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