Coyotes 4, Flames 1
CALGARY, Alberta -- Brad Richardson scored two third-period goals and Antoine Vermette had one on Friday night to lift the Arizona Coyotes to a 4-1 win over the Calgary Flames, ending their franchise-record road losing streak at 10 games.
Richardson's second goal of the period into an empty net iced the game with 1:41 remaining.
Boyd Gordon also scored for Arizona (29-32-7) and Mikael Backlund replied for Calgary (28-35-4).
The Flames have not won back-to-back home games in more than two months since they beat the Buffalo Sabres and New York Rangers Dec. 10 and Dec. 12 as part of a seven-game winning streak.
Neither team is in contention for a playoff spot in the Western Conference. Arizona is nine points back of the second wild card spot with 14 games remaining and the Flames are 13 points out with the same number of games left.
Arizona is 4-0 against Calgary this season and rookie goaltender Louis Domingue has won three of those games while stopping 76 of 79 shots.
After a sluggish first period, the first score came quickly in the second, a short-handed goal by the Flames. Left winger Michael Frolik stole the puck at center ice, skated in and fed Backlund, who didn't miss into a wide-open net.
Arizona tied the score with ashort-handed goal at 15:01. Gordon took a nice pass from Jordan Martinook on a break-in and batted it in out of midair past Flames goalie Joni Ortio.
The Coyotes took the lead on the power play 3:15 into the third. Vermette snuck to the side of the net and redirected a pass from Martin Hanzal. Richardson banged in Shane Doan's rebound at 14:18.
The Flames had defenseman Dennis Wideman back in the lineup fo the first time since Jan. 27 when he was suspended for 20 games for running into and injuring linesman Don Henderson in a game.
Wideman had his 20-game suspension reduced to 10 by an independent arbitrator earlier Friday. The game with Arizona would have been the 19th of his suspension.
NOTES: Calgary recalled LW Kenny Agostino from AHL Stockton on Friday and he played on a line with C Mikael Backlund and RW Michael Frolik. The Morristown, N.J., native's only previous NHL experience was eight games with the Flames in 2014 after coming to Calgary from the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Jaroma Iginla trade. ... The Flames were without D TJ Brodie and C Sam Bennett with undisclosed injuries. ... Coyotes leading scorer Oliver Ekman-Larsson missed his second straight game after suffering an upper-body injury on Monday at Colorado. Healthy scratches for Arizona were C Kyle Chipchura and LW Jiri Sekac. ... Flames LW Johnny Gaudreau had a league-high 48 home points entering the game. He had 66 points in all games, two better than his total from last season, his first full year in the league. ... Coyotes C Alex Tanguay, a former Flames player, had five points (two goals) in his first three games with Arizona after being acquired from Colorado at the Feb. 29 trade deadline.