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Schmaltz, who has scored 11 goals over his last
13 games, tied his career long with a goal in his fourth
straight game. Travis Boyd, Barrett Hayton and Jack McBain also
scored goals and Clayton Keller added a pair of assists for
Arizona, which snapped a two-game losing streak.
Andreas Athanasiou scored for Chicago, which suffered its second
straight loss to finish 2-2 on its Western road trip. Alex
Stalock, playing his first game since suffering a head injury on
Jan. 14 against Seattle, finished with 29 saves for Chicago,
which officially announced the trade of star forward Patrick
Kane to the New York Rangers just a few hours before the start
of the contest.
Arizona, playing without defenseman Jakob Chychrun and forward
Nick Bjugstad -- both held out for trade-related reasons -- took
a 1-0 lead at the 10:07 mark of the first period. Boyd cut
across the slot and fired a wrist shot from the edge of the
right circle that knuckled past the glove of Stalock for his
ninth goal of the season.
The Coyotes made it 2-0 near the end of the period when Hayton
tipped Schmaltz's point shot down and between Stalock's pads for
his ninth goal of the season.
Arizona extended the lead to 3-0 late in the second period on a
rebound shot from the slot by McBain that fluttered high in the
air over Max Domi at the edge of the crease and then slowly
bounced into the net for McBain's eighth goal of the season.
Schmaltz made it 4-0 midway through the third period when he
one-timed a Keller pass from the bottom of the left circle off
Stalock's right hip and into the net for his 18th goal of the
season.
Athanasiou broke up Vejmelka's bid for his fourth shutout this
season with just 1:29 remaining when he fired a wrist shot from
the left circle five-hole for his 14th goal of the season.
--Field Level Media
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