Phoenix Coyotes News

The Toronto Maple Leafs solved their logjam in goal by sending Mikael Tellqvist to the Phoenix Coyotes for forward Tyson Nash and a fourth-round 2007 draft pick Tuesday. Tellqvist had been a third-stringer this season and appeared in only one game, a 2-1 loss to New Jersey on Nov. 16. J.S. Aubin, who has been dressing as the backup to Andrew Raycroft for most games, moved ahead of Tellqvist in ...

Dallas goalie Mike Smith shut out the Phoenix Coyotes in his NHL debut, stopping 22 shots in the Stars' 4-0 victory Saturday night. Mike Ribiero, Mike Modano, Phillipe Boucher and Darryl Sydor each scored for the Stars, who won for the seventh time on eight games to match the best start in franchise history. Curtis Joseph made 28 saves for the Coyotes, who were shut out in consecutive games for the first time since March 24-26, 2004. Phoenix, ...

Pacific Division rivals Los Angeles and Phoenix will play eight times this season. If the first game was any indication, the next seven should be bruising. Michael Cammalleri, Alexander Frolov and Anze Kopitar each had a goal and an assist, and the Kings beat the Coyotes 4-0 Thursday night in a testy game that featured a combined 77 penalty minutes. ``You get to know them very well,'' Cammalleri said. ``They get to know you very well. It ...

Owen Nolan scored his first goal in two years, and the Phoenix Coyotes' offense broke out in a 5-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night. Nolan, out of the NHL since the 2003-04 season, scored one of Phoenix's three goals in the third period. Mike Comrie and Mike Zigomanis also scored in the third period to put the game out of reach. Nolan made it 4-2 with just over five minutes left and about ...

The Nashville Predators weren't about to let their worst start in franchise history go any longer. Having opened the season with three losses, Scott Hartnell and Paul Kariya each scored a goal to help Nashville beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4-1 on Saturday night. The Coyotes have just one win in their first five games. ``We played a team that was very desperate,'' said Nashville coach Barry Trotz. ``I thought we had a lot of urgency to our ...

Scott Hartnell and Paul Kariya scored to help the Nashville Predators beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4-1 on Saturday night. It was the first victory of the season for the Predators. The Coyotes have lost four games in a row. Kariya stared the scoring for the Predators at 6:49 of the first period. Jason Arnott took a shot from just inside the top of the left circle, which Kariya re-directed into the net behind Phoenix goaltender Curtis Joseph. Martin Erat ...

Mathieu Schneider had three goals and an assist to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 9-2 win over the Phoenix Coyotes on Wednesday night. Mikael Samuelsson scored twice, Pavel Datsyuk added a goal and two assists, and Henrik Zetterberg, Jason Williams, and Tomas Holmstrom had a goal and an assist each. Nicklas Lidstrom had three assists, and Niklas Kronwall chipped in with two. Dominik Hasek made 19 saves for the Red Wings. Schneider, in his 18th season ...

The Phoenix Coyotes recalled rookie defenceman Keith Yandle from the AHL's San Antonio Rampage on Tuesday to replace the injured Keith Ballard. Ballard suffered a fracture in his right hand during the Coyotes' 5-1 loss in Columbus on Monday and is expected to be out a month. Yandle, named the top defenceman in the CHL while playing for Moncton last year, had two assists in two games with San Antonio ...

Nikolai Zherdev proved pre-season workouts are overrated by scoring two goals and leading the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 5-1 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Monday night. Zherdev missed all of pre-season camp and the club's first two games, arriving in Columbus on Sunday from his native Russia after ironing out visa problems. He scored on the power play just 1:01 in and added another when he jammed in ...

Ilya Bryzgalov made 34 saves, and Teemu Selanne and Dustin Penner scored to help the Anaheim Ducks beat Phoenix 2-1 on Saturday night. Zbynek Michalek scored for the Coyotes. The Ducks dropped the ``Mighty'' from their name and changed their colours in the off-season, switching from purple and teal to black and orange. But they look the same to the Coyotes. The Ducks went 7-0-1 against Phoenix last season. And they wasted little time trying to re-establish their ...

Phoenix Coyotes center Steven Reinprecht had five points and four stitches Thursday night. ``Maybe next time I'll go for six or seven stitches,'' Reinprecht, who had a goal and four assists, said after the Coyotes opened their 10th season in the desert with a 6-3 victory over the New York Islanders. Reinprecht required the stitches above his lip after being hit by a stick. Ladislav Nagy had two goals and ...

It's hard to imagine that a couple of games in early October will make much difference in an 82-game regular season that stretches to Easter Sunday. But that's what Phoenix Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky told his players as they prepared for their season opener against the New York Islanders Thursday night in Glendale Arena. Phoenix also plays host to Anaheim Saturday night before heading off on a four-game trip to ...

Joel Perrault scored a power-play goal with 24.8 seconds left in overtime to lift the Phoenix Coyotes past the Anaheim Ducks 2-1 in both teams' pre-season finale. Ed Jovanovski faked a shot from the top of the right circle before passing to Perrault, who one-timed the puck off Jean-Sebastian Giguere from the tight angle for the game-winner. Dave Scatchard also scored for the Coyotes, who won their second straight to ...