Avs rally from three-goal deficit
The official game recap Arizona Coyotes vs Colorado Avalanche.Daniel Briere scored the game-winning goal 3:16 into overtime to cap the Colorado Avalanche's come-from-behind 4-3 win against the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday at Gila River Arena.
Colorado trailed 3-0 at 10:53 of the first period after Tobias Rieder scored for Arizona.
Briere sent a pass across the slot for Zach Redmond, but Arizona center Martin Hanzal deflected the puck past goalie Mike Smith.
Matt Duchene tied the game 3-3 at 4:05 of the third period with a shot that also deflected off an Arizona stick.
The Avalanche (8-9-5) have won four of their past five games.
Michael Stone and Antoine Vermette also scored in the first, when the Coyotes beat struggling Avalanche goalie Reto Berra three times on eight shots for their first three-goal first period of the season.
Colorado goalie Calvin Pickard came on for Berra and shut out Arizona the rest of the way.
Gabriel Landeskog scored twice for Colorado before Duchene tied it.
Arizona has lost four straight at home (0-2-2), allowing the game-winning goal in each with three minutes or less remaining in regulation or in overtime.
Berra, who was pulled in the first period Saturday after allowing three goals to the Carolina Hurricanes on 10 shots, didn't fare any better against the Coyotes, who had managed one goal in three of their past four games.
The Coyotes (9-11-3) started the scoring at 3:36 when Vermette won a spot in the Colorado crease and deflected Stone's shot from inside the point down and past Berra. Vermette's sixth goal put him one behind Coyotes leaders Mikkel Boedker and Shane Doan.
Stone, who had one point in the prior 11 games, scored from long distance at 10:20 of the first. Colorado defenseman Nick Holden tried to glove Stone's shot of the air, but the puck deflected off his glove and past a helpless Berra.
It took 33 seconds for Arizona to strike again. Rieder raced into the Colorado zone with a turnover. The puck never settled down and he shot the puck, which knuckled between Berra's pads.
The Coyotes had scored 16 first-period goals in the first 22 games before Tuesday.
Pickard came on for Berra against the Hurricanes and shut out Carolina over the final 43 minutes (17 saves) to allow Colorado to rally for a 4-3 win. He duplicated the relief effort against the Coyotes, holding Arizona at bay while Colorado heated up.
The Coyotes had one shot in the first 13 minutes of the second period, during which the Avalanche got on the board with Landeskog's first of the game.
Smith stopped Erik Johnson's shot in the slot, but Landeskog settled the rebound at his feet, moved the puck to the backhand and roofed a shot past Smith and under the crossbar at 5:49 for his fifth goal to get the Avalanche back in the game.
Smith made a huge save late in the period when a Keith Yandle turnover sent Colorado's Marc Andre-Cliché in alone shorthanded, stopping the Avalanche forward with the pad to maintain the Coyotes' two-goal cushion.
But that lead didn't survive the third period.
Colorado cut the lead in half at 1:36, and it was the same line that did the damage. From behind the net, Jarome Iginla set up Nathan MacKinnon for a shot from the left circle. Smith stopped it, but Landeskog pounced on the rebound and put it between Smith's pads for his second goal of the game.
Then 2:29 later, Colorado got a fortunate bounce. Duchene's attempted centering pass from behind the net was deflected by Arizona's Lauri Korpikoski, but the puck fluttered up in the air and over Smith's glove at 4:05 to complete the Avalanche comeback.
-- by Jerry Brown for NHL.com --
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26/11/2014 - 06:30
