GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Arizona Coyotes forward Mikkel Boedker had a hat trick for the second time in as many games against the Ottawa Senators and the Coyotes completed a sweep of a three game homestand with a 4-3 win at Gila River Arena on Saturday.
Boedker has six goals of his nine goals in two games against the Senators this season and eight goals and 12 points in seven career games against Ottawa.
The Coyotes (13-9-1) are 6-4-0 at home this season after winning 11 games in Arizona in 2014-15.
Dustin Jeffrey scored and Michael Stone had two assists for Arizona. Anders Lindback made 34 saves.
Mike Hoffman had two goals for the Senators (12-6-5), who had their four-game losing streak end. Ottawa has lost six games in regulation this season, two of them against the Coyotes. Mark Stone scored and Craig Anderson made 15 saves.
Boedker, who had a hat trick in a 4-1 win against the Senators in Ottawa on Oct. 24, picked up right where he left off 39 seconds into play.
Michael Stone's shot from the point deflected off Ottawa defenseman Erik Karlsson and dropped into the high slot. Boedker raced in and beat Anderson over the glove with a wrist shot for seventh goal of the season.
The Senators outshot the Coyotes 18-4 and tied the game at 7:28. Kyle Turris won a battle along the boards and slid it around to Bobby Ryan behind the net. Ryan's nifty backhand pass found Hoffman charging up the slot, where he beat Lindback stick side for his ninth goal.
The Coyotes answered early in the second and held the Senators without a shot for eight minutes.
Antoine Vermette found Boedker at the near post with a pass from the corner. Anderson stopped the first two shots in tight, but Boedker scored on the third attempt at 41 seconds.
Jeffery was penalized for tripping a little more than a minute later and was exiting the box when Tobias Rieder intercepted a Karlsson pass inside the Arizona blue line. Rieder hit Jeffery in stride with a breakaway pass and he pushed a forehand past Anderson at 4:00 to give the Coyotes a 3-1 lead.
The Senators needed 27 seconds after Connor Murphy's tripping penalty before Karlsson set up Hoffman for a shot from the left circle that Lindback couldn't see through an Alex Chaisson screen to cut the Coyotes lead to 3-2 at 17:57.
Boedker completed his hat trick and restored the two-goal lead following the rebound of Max Domi's shot at 13:29.
Mark Stone got the Senators back within one with a shot over Lindback's shoulder at 14:45.
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