Matt Duchene lifts Avalanche to win
Official game summary between Colorado Avalanche and Arizona Coyotes.Matt Duchene scored two goals, including the game-winner in the third period, to help the Colorado Avalanche to a 3-2 win against the Arizona Coyotes at Gila River Arena on Saturday.
Rene Bourque scored on the power play 1:42 into the third period to give Colorado (4-3-0) its first lead at 2-1. Nathan MacKinnon slipped a pass from behind the net to Bourque, who beat goalie Louis Domingue for his 300th NHL point.
At 11:24, Duchene scored from the top of the right circle to make it 3-1. His wrist shot went in off the glove of Domingue for his fifth goal, all of them in the past four games.
Colorado goalie Calvin Pickard made 24 saves in his second start of the season.
Radim Vrbata and Tobias Rieder scored for the Coyotes (2-6-0). Domingue made 31 saves and is 1-5-0 in six starts since No. 1 goalie Mike Smith was injured Oct. 18.
Arizona was outshot 7-2 in the first nine minutes but scored first.
Max Domi set up Vrbata with a pretty pass at the hash marks. Vrbata caught Pickard sliding across the crease and put the shot under his blocker at 14:57 to give Arizona a 1-0 lead. It was his fourth goal in the past five games.
Duchene tied it 1-1 at 5:51 of the second period. Mikhail Grigorenko missed a deflection chance in front of the net but retrieved the puck behind the net and centered it to Duchene for a spin-o-rama backhand shot past Domingue to end a Colorado goal drought of 100:14.
Rieder scored his second goal of the season with 4:04 remaining to make it 3-2.
-- by Jerry Brown for NHL.com --
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30/10/2016 - 05:00
