COYOTES 2, Flames 1

Roenick douses Flames

Summary

 PHOENIX (AP) -- Trevor Letowski ended Phoenix's power-play drought and Jeremy Roenick also scored as the Coyotes beat the Calgary Flames 2-1 on Tuesday night.

 Bob Essensa made 34 saves for the Coyotes to improve to 3-0-1 as Mikhail Shtalenkov's backup. Letowski's goal was the Coyotes' first in 17 chances with the man advantage.

 Roenick gave Phoenix a 2-0 lead 28 seconds into the second period. Tommy Albelin scored a short-handed goal with 5:54 left for the Flames, whose five victories have all come in overtime.

 The Coyotes were last in the NHL in power-play success at home, scoring on 10 per cent of their opportunities.

 But the average went up late in the first period, when Flames goalie Fred Brathwaite tried to clear the puck and flipped it over the glass, incurring a delay-of-game penalty with seven seconds left in Calgary's Jarome Iginla's penalty.

 Calgary was able to kill the first penalty, but Letowski made good during the second, taking a pass from Radoslav Suchy and firing a low shot through traffic with 1:29 left in the period.

 Roenick opened the second with his eighth goal when a shot from the blue-line bounced out to him just outside the crease. Roenick easily put the puck behind Brathwaite.

 Phoenix's Greg Adams had a goal disallowed later in the second period because he crashed into the net before the puck crossed the goal-line.

 Albelin got to the rebound of a shot by Travis Brigley and fired a wrist shot from the circle that cost Essensa his first shutout in nearly three years.

 Essensa, who held the Winnipeg-Phoenix franchise record for career shutouts until Nikolai Khabibulin passed him last season, got his last shutout against Vancouver on Dec. 23, 1996, when he was playing for Edmonton.

Summary

 First Period
 1. Phoenix, Letowski 4 (Suchy, Quint) 18:31 (pp)
 Penalties -- Roenick Phx (high-sticking) 8:15, Quint Phx (obstruction hooking) 12:31, Iginla Cal (interference) 15:13, Brathwaite Cal (delay of game, served by Brigley) 17:06.
 Second Period
 2. Phoenix, Roenick 8 (Carney, Drake) 0:28
 Penalties -- Savard Cal (holding the stick) 7:20, Lindsay Cal (tripping) 8:35, Wiemer Cal, Tocchet Phx (fighting) 19:37.
 Third Period
 3. Calgary, Albelin 3 (Brigley) 14:06
 Penalties -- Wilm Cal (cross-checking) 1:42, Doan Phx (roughing) 7:21, Nazarov Cal (holding the stick) 12:40, Bure Cal (tripping) 19:59.
 Shots on goal by
 Calgary 10 13 12--35
 Phoenix 14 7 3--24
 Goal -- Calgary: Brathwaite (L,0-3-1); Phoenix: Essensa (W,3-0-1).
 Power plays (goals-chances) -- Calgary: 0-3; Phoenix: 1-7.
 Referee -- Mick McGeough. Linesmen -- Wayne Bonney, Lonnie Cameron.
 Attendance -- 13,319.

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