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COYOTES 7, Hurricanes 5
Roenick paces Coyotes over 'Canes
PHOENIX (AP) -- Jeremy Roenick scored his team's final two goals, one short-handed and the other into an empty net to clinch the victory with 21 seconds to play, as the Phoenix Coyotes came home from a winless four-game road trop to hold off the Carolina Hurricanes 7-5.
Dallas Drake had a goal and two assists for the Coyotes, who had leads of 3-0 and 6-1 before Carolina scored four times in the third period after Phoenix goalie Sean Burke left with a groin pull and was replaced by Bob Essensa.
Trevor Letowski and Greg Adams each added a goal and assist for the Coyotes.
Paul Coffey and Sean Hill had a goal and an assist apiece for Carolina. The Hurricanes cut the lead to 6-5 on Robert Kron's ninth goal of the season at 16:33 and had the pressure on the rest of the way but couldn't tie it.
Carolina pulled its goalie in the final seconds and Roenick punched in his 30th goal of the season to clinch it. Roenick and Gary Roberts got into a brief fight after the last goal and both finished the game in the penalty box.
It was a short, miserable night for Carolina goalkeeper Arturs Irbe, who was pulled in favor of Mark Fitzpatrick after giving up his third goal 13:21 into the game.
The Coyotes, who managed just six goals in their 0-3-1 trip to the East, led 1-0 just 3:53 into the game on Adams' 14th goal of the season.
The Coyotes, who beat Carolina at home for the first time since the franchise moved to Phoenix in 1996, then scored twice in a 25-second span.
Letowski's shot deflected off the stick of Hogue into the net for Hogue's first goal of the season at 12:56 and Phoenix led 2-0.
An instant later, Carolina's Steve Halko couldn't control the puck, and it went right to Letowski, who scored his 13th goal of the season'and Irbe's night was over.
Carolina's scored when Ron Francis flipped the puck past goalie Sean Burke in front of the net to cut the lead to 3-1 at 14:00.
Phoenix scored three times in the last 8:39 of the second period.
Adams had a slick assist when he deflected teammate Teppo Numinen's pass with his skates to Drake, who knocked it in from close range for his 11th goal this season and put Phoenix up 4-1 at 12:12 of the second. Mike Sullivan's goal at 14:31 of the second made it 5-1, then Roenick nailed a slapshot from the top of the right circle for a short-handed goal that put the Coyotes up 6-1 with nine seconds left in the second period. It was Phoenix's 13th short-handed goal, most in the NHL.
Martin Gelinas scored just 35 seconds into the third period, then Coffey added a goal at 5:16 to cut the lead to 6-3. Hill's power-play goal at 11:05 made it 6-4.
Summary
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Carolina 1 0 4--5
Phoenix 3 3 1--7
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Phoenix, Adams 14 (Green, Carney), 3:43. 2,
Phoenix, Hogue 1 (Letowski), 12:56. 3, Phoenix, Letowski 13 (Tocchet),
13:21. 4, Carolina, Francis 19 (Hill, Oneill), 14:00. Penalties: Roberts,
Car (fighting major), 2:30; Tocchet, Pho (fighting major), 2:30; Ylonen,
Pho (high sticking), 15:57; Roberts, Car (charging), 18:21.
SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 5, Phoenix, Drake 11 (Adams, Numminen), 12:12.
6, Phoenix, Sullivan 5 (Numminen), 14:31. 7, Phoenix, Roenick 29
(shorthanded) (Drake), 19:51. Penalties: Gill, Pho (slashing), 1:56;
Kovalenko, Car (Obstr tripping), 8:27; Hogue, Pho (interference), 18:26.
THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 8, Carolina, Gelinas 12 (Oneill, Francis),
0:35. 9, Carolina, Coffey 7 (Kron), 5:16. 10, Carolina, Hill 9 (power
play) (Francis, Coffey), 11:05. 11, Carolina, Kron 9 (Kovalenko), 16:33.
12, Phoenix, Roenick 30 (empty net) (Drake, Numminen), 19:38. Penalties:
Gill, Pho (tripping), 10:08; Roberts, Car (slashing, roughing), 19:38;
Roenick, Pho (roughing), 19:38.
Shots on goal:
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Carolina 7 8 14--29
Phoenix 13 11 12--36
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Power-play Conversions: Car - 1 of 4, Pho - 0 of 3. Goalies: Carolina,
Irbe (12 shots, 9 saves), Fitzpatrick (13:21 of 1st period, 23, 20;
record: 0-2-0). Phoenix, Burke (15, 14; record: 13-11-3), Essensa (start
of 3rd, 14, 10). A:14,666. Referees: Maguire, Van Massenhoven. Linesmen:
Lazarowich, Wheler.
INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS
Carolina Phoenix
G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots
Battaglia 0 0 +2 0 Adams 1 1 +3 3
Brind'amour 0 0 -5 1 Alatalo 0 0 -1 1
Coffey 1 1 even 3 Carney 0 1 +2 2
Francis 1 2 +1 3 Debrusk 0 0 even 0
Gelinas 1 0 +2 5 Doan 0 0 -1 3
Halko 0 0 +1 0 Drake 1 2 +4 4
Hill 1 1 -3 4 Gill 0 0 +2 1
J Daniels 0 0 -1 0 Green 0 1 -1 2
Kapanen 0 0 -1 3 Hogue 1 0 even 1
Karpa 0 0 -1 1 Letowski 1 1 +1 2
Kovalenko 0 1 +1 0 Lumme 0 0 -2 2
Kron 1 1 -3 3 Neckar 0 0 even 1
Oneill 0 2 +2 3 Numminen 0 3 +3 1
Pratt 0 0 -1 0 Quint 0 0 +1 1
Ranheim 0 0 -4 1 Roenick 2 0 +4 5
Roberts 0 0 -5 1 Sullivan 1 0 -1 3
T Westlund 0 0 +1 0 Tocchet 0 1 +1 1
Wesley 0 0 -2 1 Ylonen 0 0 even 3
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