ARIZONA COYOTES NOTES:
3 HARD LAPS
• Arizona holds a .500 point percentage or better since the All-Star break (11-10-7, .518) as well as March 6 (6-6-3, .500)
• Reigning Third Star of the Month Clayton Keller is closing in on the Coyotes team record for assists and points in a single season. He enters tonight seven assists shy of Ray Whitney’s 53 in 2011-12 and four points shy of Keith Tkachuk’s 86 in 1996-97
• Tonight is the final road game for the Coyotes this season. The last time they played their final three regular-season games at home was 1997-98
LAST GAME
Kraken 8, Coyotes 1 – April 3, 2023 – Climate Pledge Arena
ARI Goals: Crouse (23)
SEA Goals: Eberle (17), McCann (36, 37), Soucy (3), Borgen (3), Bjorkstrand (19), Geekie (8), Donato (14)
ARI Goalie: Prosvetov (L) – 24 svs on 32 shots
SEA Goalie: Grubauer (W) – 20 svs on 21 shots
PP: 0-3 PK: 5-7
Notes: ARI fell to SEA on the first of consecutive games against them…Lawson Crouse registered his 23rd goal of the campaign to strengthen his grip on the second-most on the Coyotes this season…Crouse is two goals away from 20 even-strength tallies…Matias Maccelli picked up an assist for the second consecutive game and grabbed sole possession of the second-most in a season by a Coyotes rookie (35)…Connor Mackey also assisted on Crouse’s goal to mark the second time in three games he’s found the scoresheet…Mackey is up to 1-3-4 in 16 GP with the Yotes… Josh Brown was charged with 14 PIMs, a career-high…ARI’s 49 PIMs are the most the team has logged in a game since 12/20/07 at SJ (58 PIM)
MAN GAMES LOST (Name/Roster Status/Injury Type/Games Missed/Last Game Played)
Zack Kassian…Day-to-Day…Upper-Body (8 / 3/18)
Total man games lost: 148 games
Liam O’Brien – 23 (12/17 – 2/6) – Upper-Body | 2 (2/11 – 2/13) – Upper-Body
Jakob Chychrun – 16 (10/13 – 11/17) – Upper-Body
Matias Maccelli – 16 (12/27 – 1/24) – Lower-Body
Nick Schmaltz – 15 (10/15 – 11/17) – Upper-Body | 1 (12/31) – Upper-Body | 3 (3/12 – 3/16)
Zack Kassian – 9 (11/1 – 11/21) – Lower-Body
Connor Timmins – 9 (10/15 – 11/5) – Upper-Body
Shayne Gostisbehere – 8 (1/26 – 2/18) – Upper-Body
Andrew Ladd – 6 (N/A) – Undisclosed
Laurent Dauphin – 4 (3/24 – 3/31) – Upper-Body
Josh Brown – 3 (11/23 – 11/27) – Upper-Body | 4 (2/26 – 3/3) – Upper-Body | 6 (3/16 – 3/26)
Ben McCartney – 3 (10/13 – 10/17) – Lower-Body
Juuso Valimaki – 1 (11/23) – Upper-Body
Lawson Crouse – 1 (12/1) – Illness | 4 (1/19 – 1/24) – Upper-Body
Christian Fischer – 1 (3/3) – Illness | 1 (3/12) – Lower-Body
Connor Ingram – 1 (1/8) – Illness
Patrik Nemeth – 1 (3/14) – Lower-Body
Brett Ritchie – 1 (3/22) – Upper-Body | 1 (3/26) – Illness
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
-4/1 – Assigned F Nathan Smith to Tucson (AHL)
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
DATE TIME (AZ) OPPONENT VENUE TV RADIO
Sat, April 8 2:30pm vs ANA Mullett Arena Bally Sports Arizona Extra ESPN 620
Mon, April 10 7pm vs SEA Mullett Arena Bally Sports Arizona Extra ESPN 620
Thur, April 13 7pm vs VAN Mullett Arena Bally Sports Arizona 98.7 FM
YOTES & KRAKEN
- Tonight is the second of three ARI-SEA matchups this season. They’ll conclude the season series at Mullett on 4/10
- The Coyotes and Kraken play three times in a span of a week, games 78, 79 and 81 on the Yotes schedule
- SEA took the first meeting 8-1 on Monday. The game marked the latest the Coyotes/Jets franchise has ever played an opponent for the first time in a season (Game 78)
- The Yotes edged Seattle by a 2-1-0 clip last year in the season series, the Kraken’s inaugural campaign
- Nick Schmaltz has faced the Kraken three times and has tallied three goals, all of which came last season…His second goal in the 2/9/22 contest was his 200th career point
- Lawson Crouse tallied the lone Coyotes goal on Monday and shares the lead with Schmaltz for the most goals vs SEA among current Coyotes
- Schmaltz, Crouse and Travis Boyd enter tonight as the only three players on the Coyotes roster to light the lamp against the Kraken
- Crouse also tallied a two-goal game against the Kraken, his coming on 11/6/21 – his first career multi-goal game
SCORING NOTABLES AGAINST THE KRAKEN
Clayton Keller…0-3-3…4 career GP
Lawson Crouse…3-0-3…4 career GP
Nick Schmaltz…3-0-3…3 career GP
Connor Mackey…0-2-2…3 career GP
Matias Maccelli…0-1-1…2 career GP
Career Leaders
Goals (Schmaltz/Crouse, 3)… Assists (Keller, 3)…Points (Keller/Schmaltz/Crouse, 3)
Career Leaders Among Defensemen
Goals (-)… Assists (Mackey, 2)…Points (Mackey, 2)
SEATTLE KRAKEN NOTES:
LAST GAME
Seattle 5 at Vancouver 2
Goals: Gourde, Tanev, Eberle, Schwartz, Beniers
Goalie: Jones (16/18)
PP: 1/4 PK: 5/5 Shots: Seattle 28 – Seattle 18
CURRENT INJURIES – (Man Games Lost: 222)
Joonas Donskoi (upper body; IR) – 77 games – no timeline for return
Andre Burakovsky (lower body) – 27 games – week-to-week
John Hayden (lower body) – 8 games – week-to-week
TRANSACTIONS IN PAST 7 DAYS
N/A
UPCOMING GAMES
Saturday, April 8: Chicago at Seattle, 7 p.m. PT
Monday, April 10: Seattle at Arizona, 7 p.m. PT
Tuesday, April 11: Seattle at Vegas, 7 p.m. PT
Thursday, April 13: Vegas at Seattle, 7 p.m. PT
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
• Tonight’s matchup is the second of three games the Kraken will play against the Coyotes this season and the final time the two teams are playing in Seattle. The Kraken will next take on the Coyotes in their first game at Mullett Arena next Monday (April 10).
• Tonight’s game is also the 22nd of 25 games the Kraken will play against Central Division teams this season, with Seattle holding an 11-4-6 record against the Central Division this year.
• Vince Dunn, who has already set a career high with 63 points (13 goals, 50 assists) this season, enters tonight’s game tied with Jared McCann for the team lead in scoring. He is ranked in the top 10 among all NHL defensemen in goals (tied 10th), assists (tied ninth), points (10th), even-strength goals (13, tied second) and even-strength points (48, second).
• Jared McCann has recorded 32 points (15 goals, 17 assists) in 31 games dating back to Jan. 25. His 32 points during that span are leading all Kraken skaters.
• Daniel Sprong has already set a career high in goals (20), assists (23) and points (43) this season. He was leading the NHL in points per 60 (3.19) at five-on-five among players that have played in at least three games entering play Wednesday.
• Jaden Schwartz became the Kraken’s fourth 20-goal scorer of the season with a goal in the Kraken’s last game on April 4 at Vancouver, joining Jared McCann (37), Matty Beniers (22) and Daniel Sprong (20).
• With the Kraken’s four-goal outing in their game on March 3 against Columbus, they surpassed their goal total from all of last season in 20 fewer games. Seattle has scored 272 goals in 77 games this season compared to 213 goals in 2021-22. o The team’s 272 goals this season were tied for third in the NHL entering play Wednesday.
