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Playoffs before the Playoffs

This game is HUUUGE! Biggest game of the year dare I say. A win puts us one point out of 3rd in the Division, while a loss drops us 5 pts back.

Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Chicago (Chicago? yes, Chicago) also in action. Big night.

Jumping on the wagon... HUGGGE game. Again, wanna see this team play it like the huge game that it is. Refusal to lose indeed (referencing part of the interviews in the op).

This is about as must win as a must win game gets. If we lose, we're in a deep hole that'll be tough to climb out of.

That being said, Yotes will light it up. 5-1. Garland x2, Hall (off the schnied), Keller, Demers

Every single game left on the schedule is the "biggest game of the year," really.

Every game gets BIGGER Rally the Valley ,Go Yotes !!

Yep, this is basically playoff hockey now - coach Tocchet should put it to the team this way.
There's 14 games left - that's like two 7 game series. Let's win these 2 series.

Home team seems to win every game tonight. So Canucks will get 2, and the Ducks will start to climb back in then. Glorious.

F-Bomb Hallsy

We are brutal, can’t even make a pass in the neutral zone.
Hall and Hayton seem like the only guys playing with urgency.

"What Are you ####ing....???"
Taylor Hall to the ref just now. So loud you could hear it through the broadcast

Hall is on a mission tonight, keep feeding him the puck.

Hall was pissed no one entered zone with him
"What the ####???"as he hits his stick on ice looking back at Dvo

You heard that too??

Sounded like he yelled "Thanks for the ****ing support!!"

Hall is angry tonight and I f***ing love it. At least somebody is passionate about making the playoffs

Hall goes 200ft with no support. Where were the other forwards?

He’s flying into the zone fighting off two guys by himself and there is no one to be found…

Hall was pissed there

Okay so Hall is pissed tonight, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed it

Hall double shifting??

Father Time and Two Cup Rings

Kessel should've shot that

That doesn’t sound like something he would do

and when he does shoot, it goes high and wide…have heard that way too much this season

Kessel's velocity is gone

Yep, now he is just big, rather than speedy in a large frame.

Kessel has nothing left in that wrist shot. It's piss weak.

Shoot
Phil Kessel, for a goal scorer, doesn’t like to shoot, drives nuts

Phil Kessel has been a bust, not Chayka’s best move

Kessel with a shot 2 feet wide.

"tough shift for Kessel"
man every shift is a tough shift for kessel

Kessel also lead the team in PP TOI. Played 28 more seconds than Taylor Hall.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I feel like Kessel is destined to break out in the final game of the season, once the Coyotes are long dead and buried. Probably score 5 goals or something, and Tocc will take that as justification for feeding him minutes all season.

Forbort Saves the Day

HOW THE #### IS THAT NOT A PENALTY ON FORBORT???? ####ING GRABS RICHARDSON FROM BEHIND AND STARTS PUMMELING HIM!!!!
YOU CAN TAKE THE PLAYER OUT OF LA. BUT YOU CANT TAKE THE LA KING OUT OF THE PLAYER

This Forbort kid needs to cut it out with the defensive plays.

how the hell.....
E: yeah the hockey gods hate us still.

How did that what?
Edit: That was a helluva defensive play.

he was putting the puck down and got cross checked back onto the puck. i feel like that should have been 2 penalties or none

The Friendship Tour

Tkachuck also popped big Carl in the face. Straight up punch, when he wasn't even doing anything right in front of the ref.

Oh here we go. Tkachuk might want to keep his scrums out of Kuemper's reach this time.

...on the zebras

Someone call the ref for elbowing dammit!

Hayton got f***ing leveled by the ref lmao

O'Rourke just broke Hayton

RIP Hayton

Ref should get 5 minutes for that high elbow.

Bruh the ref just elbowed Hayton

"He's down on all fours."
- Dude on the radio

Shooting Blanks

If the net was like a soccer goal, we'd still send it wide and over the net

Why wouldn't you shoot that?

Why does this team force passes that immediately become turn overs instead of shooting the puck!

They play a heavy trap system and rely on a fast counter attack rather than sustained possession. Part of that is moving it straight forward as quickly as possible, including tip ins and dump ins. Dallas and Columbus play similarly. This team simply cannot score off of the cycle. It seems like they make 'too many passes' because their offensive zone time is actually incredibly limited relative to their opponents. Witness...

They are underwater in:
CF%
FF%
SF%
xGF%
SCF%
SCGF%
HDCF%
HDGF%

26th in SC SH%
24th in HD SH%
27th in SH%

They are literally underwater in every single scoring metric share apart from GF% aka they concede more than they generate, and they suck ass at finishing what chances they do generate aka quality is loooow.

The one metric they are great at? 5v5 SV%, which they are 4th. Dallas is 1st and Columbus 5th.

The Coyotes are the definition of a team that sells out everything to protect the net.

Johnny and Brodie tag-teaming

Get lead, give up a ton of good chances. Sounds about right.

Johnny plays like Keller should

What the f*** there is zero communication between OEL and Bush. They're taking the same f***ing guy and leaving the slot wide open

Oh well. Did lead for five minutes.

Goligoski going down to 1 knee instead of just trying to contest the shot with his stick.

lol handed all the momentum back to Calgary and they're killing us

kay

We're playing SUPER soft on the blue line in the offensive zone.. more soft than our usual god awful ED
I hate seeing a slow rolling puck back and our D running away from it for 5 seconds before the other team grabs it for a rush

Well I expect our normal response to that. Game over...

Have the Coyotes broken up a single Calgary zone entry? Feels like they're just flying in

One minute left, coyotes just keep flipping the puck to the neutral zone. Calgary trying to score.

Coyotes 1 - 2 OEL/Bush

Basically spent the entire period letting Calgary walk into the slot. Total trainwreck defensively, they're hanging Kuemper out to dry.. again. I expect no adjustments.

Backlund with the GWG

I turned it on when it was 1-0 Yotes, then Calgary scored 2 so I turned it off for good luck... Turned on NHL Network and they turned the Yotes game on and Calgary scored again are you ####ing kidding…

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Well, that is about it...we can't score 4

Welp, that's probably the season. It was fun while it lasted, I guess.

Weak goal there

Can't rely on the goalie to steal every game. It just isn't viable.

Uh-oh. Our nemesis, the third goal.

Sad Extra Man

How many times has the Coyotes this season pulled the goalie for an extra attacker and scored? I think 0.

inb4 Tocc "I thought we played a good game"

The one goal losses are adding up.

I'd pay somebody good money to actually ask him the tough questions, but even then he'd just deflect/make a joke/walk away

343 games since the Coyotes scored a goal with 6 skaters on the ice. Yeah the beat goes on.

It’s inexcusable that Chayka didn’t remove this coaching staff in January. Absolutely unacceptable.

The Sound of Inevitability

If only the Coyotes played the Flames like they do the Oilers.

Arizona is so f***in unreliable when we need them.. Lol

Arizona is worthless.

Taylor Hall effect

lmao Talbot. Ew 2-1, wake up Yotes.

Would rather bury Arizona, since the BoA is likely anyways

I feel like the only one who doesn't want a first round BoA. I think the Oilers have been the better team in general this season but head-to-head Calgary have had our number. I want the Oilers to make it to the 2nd round at least