Arizona Coyotes Continue Disappointing Final Stretch
Arizona Coyotes’ Stretch Run Has Been Brutal
With playoff dreams and a whiteout in Glendale out of the picture, the Arizona Coyotes continue to struggle at the beginning of the final full month of the NHL regular season.
They are now 2-8-0 in their last ten contests and have gotten points from just six of their past 18 games.
The issues that result in a loss on any given night vary, but in general the team is suffering from an acute lack of consistency.
The only real consistency the Arizona Coyotes have shown is the ability to take numerous penalties on any given night. The penalty parade has been the difference in several games for the good guys.
It has been a rapid, rapid decline in the desert but an altogether unsurprising one.
The Coyotes’ knack for scoring was mainly a factor of a sky-high PDO early in the season, and the fact of the matter remains that Dave Tippett has spun cloth into gold with the pieces he has to work with in his current lineup.
Let’s take a look at what’s been going wrong:
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