{coyotes} Duclair, Domingue lead Coyotes over Predators in shootout

 

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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Anthony Duclair and Radim Vrbata scored in the shootout, and Louis Domingue stopped 35 shots plus two more in the tiebreaker to lead the Arizona Coyotes over the Nashville Predators 3-2 on Thursday night.

Duclair and rookie Christian Dvorak scored in regulation for the Coyotes, who won for the third time in four games after a 1-5 start.

Matt Irwin and Craig Smith had the goals for Nashville. The Predators lost four of five games on a West Coast road trip that ended in Arizona, though they earned two overtime points.

Domingue saved shots by Filip Forsberg and Ryan Johansen in the shootout.

Duclair made it 2-all with his first goal of the season, at 5:48 of the third period. He scored 20 goals in a breakout 2015-16 season, but took 10 games to get his first this season.

The game went to overtime and Domingue was busy, stopping six shots while the Coyotes did not manage one.

The last 2 minutes of overtime saw the Predators on their seventh power play. They went 1 for 7 in the game.

Dvorak, recalled from the club's AHL affiliate in Tucson three days after being sent down, scored his first NHL goal at 9:17 of the first period. He took a pass from Ryan White, then displayed some nifty stick-handling to free himself for a backhand that went off Pekka Rinne's pads.

The goal gave Arizona a 1-0 lead. Dvorak became the third Coyotes player to score his first career goal this season.

The Predators got on the board with Irwin's wrister from left of the net, which zipped through traffic and was close to being deflected. Irwin's goal, at 17:55 of the first, was his second in two games.

Nashville had a chance earlier when Mike Ribeiro's shot hit the post on Domingue's stick side less than 4 minutes into the game. The Predators outshot the Coyotes 18-6 in the first period but went 0 for 3 on power plays in the first 20 minutes.

The Predators failed to convert on their first four power plays of the game, but the fifth one produced Smith's team-leading fifth goal of the season. Smith fired in a shot off a pass from P.K. Subban at 16:35 of the second period to give Nashville a 2-1 lead.

Irwin took a hard hit from the Coyotes' Jamie McGinn at the 15-minute mark, and the resulting boarding penalty led to Smith's power-play goal.

Arizona went 0 for 3 with the man advantage and has gone four games and 12 power plays without converting.

NOTES: Arizona's Martin Hanzal missed the game with a lower-body injury sustained in Tuesday's win over San Jose. D Michael Stone also sat out with an upper-body injury, his third straight game missed. . F Tobias Rieder was also scratched. He is dealing with a lower-body injury from the team's previous game, and his streak of consecutive games played ended at 163. . Nashville captain Mike Fisher did not play due to an upper-body injury and is day to day. . D Matt Carle and F Harry Zolnierczyk were also scratched for Nashville. ... Rinne celebrated his 34th birthday. . Ribeiro was repeatedly booed when he touched the puck or had his name announced. He was unpopular with fans during his brief time with the Coyotes.

UP NEXT

Predators: Host Carolina on Saturday night, the start of a four-game homestand.

Coyotes: At Anaheim on Friday night.

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