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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Mikkel Boedker continued his hot start with his first career hat trick and Connor Murphy and Rob Klinkhammer snapped a second-period tie with goals 1:07 apart to lead the Arizona Coyotes to a 7-4 victory against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night.
Boedker, who had a career-high 19 goals last season, capped his hat trick with a steal and dump into an empty net with 26.7 seconds left. He has five goals in the first three games of 2014-15, one behind NHL leader Rick Nash of the New York Rangers.
Kyle Chipchura and Martin Erat also scored for the Coyotes, who are 16-2-3 against the Oilers since coach Dave Tippett arrived for the 2009-10 season; they are unbeaten in regulation (10-0-3) against Edmonton since the 2011-12 season.
Boedker is the first Coyote to score five goals in the first three games since the franchise moved to Arizona from Winnipeg in 1996-97. The only Coyote to score four goals in the first three games of the season was Hall of Famer Mike Gartner, who did it in that first year.
Arizona goalie Mike Smith, who allowed six goals by the Winnipeg Jets in the season-opener on Oct. 9, wasn't particularly sharp but made 23 saves in his return to the net after sitting out a 3-2 overtime win against the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday. Smith also earned his 10th career point when he assisted on Boedker's first goal.
Taylor Hall scored his second and third goals of the season for Edmonton and added a nifty assist on Mark Arcobello's third-period goal. Mark Fayne also scored for the Oilers, who have been outscored 23-9 during their 0-3-1 start.
Goalie Ben Scrivens made 23 saves but his defense allowed far too many choice scoring chances and the Coyotes took advantage of enough of them to improve to 2-1-0.
The Oilers scored early when the Coyotes had trouble clearing their zone. Nikita Nikitin held in Oliver Ekman-Larsson's hard around in at the blue line, and his shot toward the net hit Ekman-Larsson in the skate. Jordan Eberle gathered in the deflection and fed Hall for a point-blank tap between Smith's pads at 1:25 and the Coyotes were behind for the third straight game.
Hall's second of the season stood up until Nikitin hooked down Arizona's Antoine Vermette and the Coyotes got even on the power play. Keith Yandle whipped a 100-foot pass that found Boedker waiting at the Edmonton blue line. Boedker went in alone and dumped a backhander over Scrivens' glove at 8:22 to give him a goal in each of Arizona's first three games.
The Coyotes made it 2-1 at 13:53 when Chipchura, a healthy scratch in the first two games, finished off a good hustle play by the fourth line. Brandon McMillan raced down to beat Scrivens to a puck behind the net and chipped the puck to Joe Vitale, who found Chipchura alone in the slot for the goal.
Edmonton tied the game at 17:50 when Leon Draisaitl's pass/shot banked off the backboards and came right to Fayne, whose one-timer beat Smith to the near post.
But the Coyotes did all the second-period scoring. After a strong Arizona penalty kill, Shane Doan dropped a pass that Murphy snapped over Scrivens' glove from the top of the left circle at 5:08. It was Murphy's second career goal and his first in 31 games, dating back to Nov. 16, 2013, against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Klinkhammer made it 4-2 at 6:15 when he beat the Edmonton defense to the slot and pushed a Martin Erat pass behind Scrivens.
Edmonton made it a one-goal game during a 4-on-4 early in the third period. Hall won a race for the puck with a pinching Zbynek Michalek and turned it into a 2-on-1 rush. Hall feathered a beautiful saucer pass over the prone body of Ekman-Larsson and Arcobello banged it past Smith for his second goal of the season.
But Boedker restored the lead to 5-3 when his backhander from the slot eluded the glove of Scrivens, dropped between his pads and slid over the goal line. Erat made it 6-3 at 12:59, beating Scrivens with a backhander, before Hall scored his second of the night at 14:30.
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