Arizona Coyotes Continue Disappointing Final Stretch
Offensively Deficient
The Yotes just can’t score with any regularity since the month of January.
Whereas before the team got timely goals and were always in a contest – or at least made it close late – they struggle to find their rhythm or maintain any kind of persistent pressure in the offensive zone.
The Arizona Coyotes have scored 21 goals in their past 10 games, a number that equates to just over two goals per game. During that time frame they scored more than two goals just twice, and were held to one goal or less in four contests.
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The goal-scoring has been so anemic that we’ve seen very little production from any of the Coyotes’ top young forwards in the ten game stretch, and even the torrid pace of Oliver Ekman-Larsson (2 goals, 3 assists in his past 10 games) has been slowed to some degree.
The scoring issues are exacerbated by the lack of zone time. The Coyotes simply spend more time in their own end than all but two teams in the NHL (47.2% Corsi For during 5-on-5 play).
This is due in part to bad zone entries. Too often the team is having to chip and chase or dump and chase and both forwards and defensemen seem unwilling to simply skate the puck across the blue line and set up shop.
Often you will see the Coyotes pass across ice from wing to wing to secure an entry only to not being able to connect the pass, or have the play broken up at the blue line. Turnovers are an all-too-common theme in the neutral zone and on those entry passes which puts the Coyotes on the back foot again immediately.
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