Czech yourself before you wreck yourself, Hanzal nets a hatty in 5-0 win
Hanzal, You’re so hot right now.
To the tune of his second career hat trick on Friday against the Vancouver Canucks, Martin Hanzal wasn’t alone in what was one of the better team efforts of the season. Shane Doan and Keith Yandle also added goals in the Coyotes 5-0 win at Rogers Arena.
After a valiant effort in a loss on Thursday, the Coyotes decided to start Devan Dubnyk on Friday; however, we did not receive the official word on tonight’s starter until warmups, and it didn’t affect his effort. Dubnyk earned the Coyotes first shutout of the season in a 35 save effort. If you had Doobs in the first shutout of the year pool than you are the winner of a brand new HH t-shirt (if those actually existed)
The Canucks dominated possession for most of the night to the tune of only allowing the Coyotes to get three shots on goal in the first period, however they made the most of their opportunities as they were able to jump out on top late thanks to Marty Hanzal and a terrible piece of goaltending by Ryan Miller but of course that wasn’t the last Miller would see of the big Czech Center.
The Coyotes did suffer a scare late in the period as Keith Yandle limped off the ice in pain after sliding awkwardly into the boards but he would end up just fine as he notched a very ho-hum three point night.
Hanzal capped off his natural hat trick with goals just nine seconds apart in the second period. The first went to review but was upheld and the Hatty clincher was thanks to hanzal winning a race to a puck along the board just inside the Vancouver zone that he was then able to finish off to put the Coyotes ahead 3-0.
The onslaught continued in the second period as Shane Doan got his second goal in as many nights on the 19th anniversary of his first career NHL goal to put the Coyotes up 4-0 through two.
Yandle would add a power play goal in the third to cap off the Coyotes 5-0 victory.
Fridays win was very reminiscnt of Coyotes teams past, somwhow those teams defied logic and were getting outshot on a nightly basis but were still coming away with two points.It is hard to explain but that’s how we like our hockey here in the valley, hockey the hard way.
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