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Coyotes drop another one
David Vest
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 23, 2006 10:21 PM
EDMONTON, Alberta - Because they are struggling, the Coyotes are considered a dangerous team.
At least that’s what opponents are saying about them before games start.
Afterward, Phoenix’s foes must be wondering what they were so worried about.
The Edmonton Oilers jumped to a 3-0 lead and beat the Coyotes 5-2 on Monday night at Rexall Place.
The loss was Phoenix’s seventh in the past nine games.
“We need to start with a lead,” Coyotes captain Shane Doan said. “We need to figure out how to get the first goal and get some momentum on our side and play a smart game.”
Trailing 3-0, the Coyotes surprisingly sneaked back into the game in the second period when Jeremy Roenick scored his first goal since coming back to Phoenix with 12:33 left.
Roenick’s goal ended a nearly 148-minute Coyotes scoring drought.
Mike Comrie then scored a backhanded power-play goal two minutes later to make the score 3-2.
But defenseman Nick Boynton turned the puck over in the Phoenix zone five minutes into the third period, and Ales Hemsky parlayed the miscue into a goal for a 4-2 lead and the Coyotes were toast.
Again.
Asked if the Coyotes knew how to win at this point, right wing Fredrik Sjostrom sighed deeply.
“All I can say is all the guys around me want to win so bad,” Sjostrom said. “We’re not doing the things we have to do, and that’s every guy in here. I think every guy can play better.”
To their credit, the Coyotes skated hard. But their passing was sloppy, they took too many stupid/lazy penalties, especially in third period, and goalie Curtis Joseph was mediocre at best.