Ducks 5, Coyotes 2
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Goalie Frederik Andersen earned his fifth successive victory and stopped 23 shots as the Anaheim Ducks routed the Arizona Coyotes 5-2 Friday night at the Honda Center.
Right wingers Corey Perry and Mike Santorelli, left wingers Andrew Cogliano and Patrick Maroon and defenseman Hampus Lindholm scored for the Ducks.
Anaheim (25-18-7) extended its season-high winning streak to six games and moved three points ahead of the fourth-place Coyotes (24-22-6) in the race for third place, the Pacific Division's final automatic playoff spot.
Right winger Shane Doan scored his team-leading 19th goal and added an assist for Arizona. Left winger Tobias Rieder contributed a goal, while goalie Anders Lindback made 36 saves, two fewer than his season high. However, the Coyotes absorbed their fourth loss in a row and their seventh in nine games.
Perry's 21st goal of the season broke a 2-2 tie at 2:07 of the third period. After center Rickard Rakell received a pass at the right post, Lindback fell in anticipation of a shot. Instead, Rakell passed to an onrushing Perry, who converted a wrist shot from the slot over the prone Lindback.
Then at 3:48, Anaheim exploited another overreaction from Lindback to build a two-goal lead. With defenseman Kevin Bieksa holding the puck at the right circle, Lindback charged forward. Bieksa then passed to Cogliano, who deposited the puck inside the left post for his fifth goal.
Maroon, who had a goal disallowed by video replay about nine minutes into the final period, ended the scoring with a power-play goal at 16:25.
Rieder needed only 1 minute, 34 seconds after the opening faceoff to convert a turnover from Anaheim right winger Corey Perry into a 1-0 lead. After Ducks left winger Patrick Maroon dug out the puck from the boards behind the right circle, Rakell sent a pass that hit Perry's left skate. Perry responded by blindly poking the puck forward.
Arizona right winger Shane Doan secured the loose puck near the right post and passed to Rieder, who converted a wrist shot inside the left post for his 11th goal. With the assist, Doan moved within two points of the club's all-time record, held by Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk.
Anaheim right winger Chris Stewart had a chance to tie the score roughly seven minutes into the first period, but his shot from the left circle on a two-on-one rush hit the inside of the left post and ricocheted through the crease.
The Ducks scored twice within 66 seconds during the second period to move ahead 2-1. Lindholm registered his third goal in three games and his sixth of the season with a wrist shot from the right point four minutes into the period.
The hosts then used a turnover to take the lead at 5:06. Lindback fanned on a pass from the trapezoid behind the net. Right winger Mike Santorelli swooped in to steal the puck, and with Lindback out of position, backhanded it inside the right post for his sixth goal.
Doan tied the score nearly 10 minutes later on a power play with his team-leading 19th goal. The Coyotes' captain received center Antoine Vermette's pass from the right circle and swept the puck under Andersen's right pad at 14:55. Doan thus tied Hawerchuk's team record for career power-play goals, 122.
NOTES: Arizona scratched D Klas Dahlbeck, C Boyd Gordon and D Nicklas Grossmann. ... Coyotes RW Viktor Tikhonov is the grandson and namesake of the fabled coach who guided the former Soviet Union to three Olympic gold medals and nine world championships. ... Coyotes RW Shane Doan passed Hall of Famer John Bucyk and moved into seventh place in games played with one team. Doan made his 1,437th appearance for the franchise. Bucyk played 21 of his 23 seasons with the Boston Bruins. ... Coyotes LW Kyle Chipchura played his 300th game with the team. ... Anaheim scratched D Korbinian Holzer and C Harry Zolnierczyk. ... Anaheim is challenging the 2011-12 New Jersey Devils for the best penalty-killing rate for one season (89.6 percent). The Ducks defused a league-best 89.4 percent of opponents' power plays entering Friday, when they killed four of five.