ANCOUVER — Ben Hutton scored on a penalty shot at 2:34 of overtime Thursday as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Arizona Coyotes 3-2.
Hutton was hooked on a breakaway by Dylan Strome before beating Louis Domingue with a nice backhand deke for his second goal of the season.
Daniel Sedin, with a goal and an assist, and Brandon Sutter also scored for Vancouver (7-10-1).
Jacob Markstrom made 34 saves for the Canucks, who entered play having lost 11 of their last 13, including Tuesday's 7-2 loss to the Rangers.
Brad Richardson, who was later carted off on a stretcher with an injured right leg, and Anthony DeAngelo replied for Arizona (5-9-2).
Domingue stopped 39 shots for the Coyotes, who have lost four in a row.
Tied 2-2 after 40 minutes, Domingue made a nice glove save on Vancouver's Loui Eriksson six minutes into third before a sliding Max Domi partially blocked a Henrik Sedin effort on the backcheck.
Domi was then denied at the other end on a great backhand that Markstrom, who started in net for the Canucks for the second straight game with Ryan Miller out with the flu, got with his glove.
Daniel Sedin had another golden opportunity with under three minutes to go, but Domingue was there.
The Coyotes opened the scoring 1:22 into the second when Richardson's shot off the rush glanced off the stick of Vancouver defenceman Alexander Edler and past Markstrom shortside for his fifth. The Canucks challenged the play for offside, but the call stood.
DeAngelo made it 2-0 on a broken play at 10:45 after Markstrom overcommitted to Martin Hanzal at the side of the Vancouver net. The puck slid off Hanzal's stick and into the slot where DeAngelo's deflected shot floated into the empty goal for his second.
Things were looking good for the Coyotes at that point, but Richardson crumpled to the ice with a right leg injury a few minutes later after a collision with hulking Canucks defenceman Nikita Tryamkin, who stands six-foot-seven and weighs 265 pounds.
Medical staffs from both teams attended to Richardson for several minutes before loading him onto a stretcher.
Vancouver cut the deficit to 2-1 with 4:15 left in the period when Sutter took a pass from Daniel Sedin and buried his fourth of the season and third in as many games past Domingue.
The Canucks' much-maligned power play then got them on level terms just 2:13 later when Henrik Sedin threw a nice backhand pass across the ice to Edler, who in turn found Daniel Sedin in the slot for his sixth to send the teams to the locker-rooms tied 2-2.
Markstrom allowed all seven goals in that loss to the Rangers, and had to be sharp midway through the first with a nice blocker save on Richardson before kicking out a pad on Hanzal.
Radim Vrbata, who spent the last two seasons in Vancouver before signing with Arizona this summer, then rang a shot off the post behind Markstrom that stayed out.
The Canucks looked to have taken the lead when Michael Chaput tipped Edler's point shot past Domingue at 11:56, but the Coyotes challenged the play and the rookie forward was denied his first NHL goal when it was judged after video review he interfered with the Arizona netminder.
Notes: Vancouver has given up the first goal for the 16th time in 18 games this season. ... Thursday was Hockey Fights Cancer night at Rogers Arena. The Canucks wore special lavender jerseys in warmups with names on the back of the people they're fighting. ... Vancouver assigned second-year forward Jake Virtanen to the AHL on Wednesday. ... Canucks forward Jannik Hansen (fractured rib) and defenceman Christopher Tanev (lower body) remained on the sidelines. ... Vancouver called up goalie Michael Garteig from the ECHL with Miller out.
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