Glendening, Red Wings keep Coyotes winless
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Luke Glendening scored short-handed with 3:24 remaining, and the Detroit Red Wings rode their penalty kill and timely scoring to beat Arizona 4-2 on Thursday night and keep the Coyotes winless.
Seconds after goalie Jimmy Howard made a kick save of Coyotes rookie Clayton Keller's spin-a-rama shot -- denying Arizona the lead and Keller a hat trick -- Glendening worked a two-on-one short-handed break with Dylan Larkin and beat Louis Dominque with a wrist shot.
Frans Nielsen added an empty-net goal with 1:34 to play after Martin Frk and Henrik Zetterberg also scored for Detroit (3-1-0). Howard turned aside 33 of 35 shots.
Detroit killed off five of Arizona's six power plays and answered each of the 19-year-old Keller's two goals.
Arizona (0-3-1), which couldn't score during a five-on-three power play lasting 1:31 in the first, finally found the net on its fifth man advantage of the game. Derek Stepan dug the puck out of a scrum in front and pushed it toward the net, and Keller tapped it across the goal line 6:12 into the second.
Frk responded with his third goal in four games, also on a power play, on a slap shot from the left point that Dominque couldn't stop. Dominque (20 saves) came on at the start of second after starter Antti Raanta was lifted with a lower-body injury after stopping all nine shots he faced.
Keller scored his third of the season with 1:44 left in the second, taking Max Domi's short pass and beating Howard with a wrist shot from the edge of the left circle. But Zetterberg tied with his second of the season with 42 seconds left in the period, putting a rebound of Dylan Larkin's bad-angle shot from along the goal line through Dominque's pads.
Larkin and Mike Green each had two assists for Detroit, and Domi had a pair of helpers for Arizona.
The Red Wings, now 15-5-1 at Gila River Arena, play at expansion Vegas on Friday night.
NOTES: Red Wings D Niklas Kronwall made his season debut after missing the first three games with a groin injury. D Danny DeKeyser (lower body) was out. ... Coyotes D Adam Clendening was active for the first time this season. ... Arizona LW Jordan Martinook returned from a one-game layoff caused by a lower-body injury, but D Kevin Connauton (lower body), who scored Tuesday at Vegas, was out. ... No Coyotes players had a positive plus-minus rating entering the game.