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SAN JOSE -- Antoine Vermette scored a power-play goal in the first period and scored the only goal in the shootout, lifting the Arizona Coyotes to a 4-3 victory against the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night at SAP Center.
Arizona's David Schlemko and Shane Doan also scored. Tommy Wingels, Andrew Desjardins and Joe Pavelski scored for the Sharks.
Coyotes goaltender Devan Dubnyk made 40 saves over 65 minutes, and the Sharks' Antti Niemi made 22.
Dubnyk stopped all three shots he faced in the shootout, when he faced Logan Couture, Pavelski and Barclay Goodrow. After Goodrow was rejected, Vermette beat Niemi to the stick side to end the game.
The Sharks (10-10-3) saw their losing streak grow to three games (0-1-2). The Coyotes improved to 9-10-2; they are 1-1-0 with one left on their three-game road trip.
The Sharks went on a power play at 1:05 of overtime when Doan went to the penalty box for high sticking against Matt Nieto. San Jose turned up the pressure on Dubnyk, but he survived a flurry of shots, including two by Pavelski, and Arizona killed the penalty.
The Sharks survived an odd-man rush when Niemi made a glove save of Sam Gagner's blast with 11.8 left in overtime.
The Coyotes built a 2-0 lead in the first period, gave it all back in the second, and then moved ahead 3-2 at 52 seconds of the third period on Doan's seventh goal, all of which have come on the road.
Sharks forward Tomas Hertl mishandled a puck in San Jose's end, and Arizona capitalized. Gagner fired a shot that Niemi saved but couldn't control, and Doan put the rebound past him from close range.
San Jose answered with Pavelski's power-play goal at 7:47 of the third. Brent Burns unleashed a rocket from just inside the blue line, and Pavelski redirected the puck past Dubnyk for his ninth goal, which leads the Sharks, and 200th of his career.
Pavelski had another prime scoring chance in the final minute of regulation, but Dubnyk made the save on his shot from the right circle.
The Coyotes grabbed a 1-0 lead at 4:58 of the first period when Vermette scored from the low slot on the power play with Hertl in the penalty box for interference.
Mikkel Boedker sent the puck toward the net from the right circle, and Doan got it to a wide-open Vermette, who slid a shot under Niemi's left pad. It was the fifth goal for Vermette, and the Coyotes had a power-play goal for the fifth time in their past six games.
Arizona made it 2-0 at 12:05 of the first period when Schlemko scored his first goal since Oct. 26, 2013, snapping a goal drought of 46 games. Trailing on a Coyotes rush, Schlemko took a pass from Boedker in the slot and wristed a shot over Niemi's left shoulder with Vermette providing a screen.
Boedker earned his second assist of the game, the 100th of his career.
The Sharks scored two unanswered goals in the second period to pull even.
Wingels scored San Jose's first shorthanded goal of the season at 4:11 of the second, cutting Arizona's lead to 2-1 and energizing the Sharks.
Goodrow won a battle for the puck along the boards with Coyotes defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson, igniting a 3-on-1 rush. Goodrow zipped a cross-ice pass to Wingels, who ripped the puck past Dubnyk, snapping his 10-game goal drought.
Desjardins made it 2-2 at 17:53 of the second period with his first goal of the season. Tyler Kennedy unleashed a shot from above the right circle that Dubnyk saved. But the rebound went off Dubnyk's right pad to a hard-charging Desjardins in the left circle, and Desjardins buried his shot.
Defenseman Brenden Dillon made his debut for San Jose one day after being acquired from the Dallas Stars for defenseman Jason Demers and a third-round pick in the 2016 NHL Draft. Dillon, who was paired with Brent Burns, had three hits and a shot in the first period.
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