Doan's OT goal lifts Coyotes to win over Oilers
APNews
Jan 06, 2010
Shane Doan scored his second goal of the game during a power play 1:37 into overtime to lift the Phoenix Coyotes to a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers 5-4 on Tuesday night.
Edmonton scored two goals 49 seconds apart before the midpoint of the third, tying it 4-4 and forcing overtime.
Radim Vrbata, Martin Hanzal and Petr Prucha also scored for the Coyotes, who snapped their five-game road losing streak to the Oilers.
Gilbert Brule, Patrick O'Sullivan, Denis Grebeshkov and Dustin Penner had goals for the Oilers, but they lost their third straight and for the 10th time in 11 games.
The Coyotes scored 12 minutes in as a flubbed faceoff outside of the Edmonton blue line led to Vrbata's breakaway. He tucked the puck between the pads of Oilers starter Jeff Deslauriers.
The Coyotes went up 2-0 seven minutes into the second period as Deslauriers allowed a big rebound on Vernon Fiddler's shot. Doan got to it and backhanded his 11th goal into a wide-open net.
Edmonton got within a goal 4 minutes later on the power play, as Brule crept in from the sideboards and fired a shot past goalie Ilya Bryzgalov.
The Oilers needed just over 2 minutes more to tie it. Ryan Potulny's long cross-ice pass sent in O'Sullivan, who fought off Adrian Aucoin and lifted a backhand shot over Bryzgalov's shoulder.
But Phoenix regained the lead 1:02 later. Deslauriers casually allowed a dump-in to come out to Hanzal without an Oilers defender in sight. Hanzal whacked the puck in to make it 3-2.
The Coyotes restored their two-goal advantage with just over two minutes left on another Edmonton mistake. Robert Nilsson gave up the puck in his zone to Vrbata, who fed it across for a quick shot from Prucha that made it 4-2 after 40 minutes.
Edmonton had 18 shots in the second period to Phoenix's nine.
Phoenix appeared to take a 5-2 lead 6 minutes into the third, but Aucoin's goal was waved off due to goaltender interference.
The Oilers rebounded to tie it with goals 49 seconds apart.
Sam Gagner stole a puck from behind the Phoenix net and fed it to a pinching Grebeshkov to make it 4-3. The Oilers got even less than a minute later as Shawn Horcoff's shot rebounded into the air and was pushed home by Penner for his 20th of the season.