Schmaltz set up the Coyotes’ four straight third-period goals to put them back in front. Carson Keller scored twice, including the one that tied the game 5-5. Lawson Crouse followed with the winning goal on the power play.
Coyotes rookie Matias Maccelli scored his first National Hockey League (NHL) goal to make it 4-0 midway through the second period. The Senators then got going and Parker Kelly scored twice in a five-goal streak in just over six minutes between the end of the second and the start of the third period.
Ontario’s Scott Wedgewood defended the Coyotes net on Saturday against the Senators.
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The Coyotes, who beat the NHL’s top team the Colorado Avalanche on Friday, have now won four of their last six games and are on their best streak of the season.
Shayne Gostisbehere and Dyson Mayo added to the Coyotes lead in the third period. Gostisbehere finished the game with three assists and Keller had two.
Josh Norris, Alex Formenton and Nick Paul blackened the scoresheet for the Sens side who suffered a fourth straight loss.
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Canucks rise to topple Maple Leafs
Alex Chiasson scored the game-winning goal and Thatcher Demko stopped 34 shots as the Vancouver Canucks rallied from a one-goal deficit in the third period to upset the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-4 on Saturday night.
JT Miller, Brock Boeser, Travis Hamonic and Tanner Pearson had a goal and an assist apiece for the Canucks (28-23-6). Tyler Motte completed the scoring in an empty net and Bo Horvat contributed to the offensive production with two assists.
Auston Matthews replied for the Leafs (35-16-4) with his 38th and 39th goals of the season to reclaim the NHL’s top scoring ranking. John Tavares, with a goal and an assist, and Nick Robertson also found the back of the net for the Leafs. Jack Campbell took the loss with 23 saves.
This loss will perhaps have a bittersweet flavor for forward Wayne Simmonds, who was playing his 1000th career game in the National Hockey League.
The Maple Leafs led 4-3 after two periods, but the Canucks came out strong in the third period. They tied the game in the 63rd second when Pearson deflected a pitch past Campbell.
The Canucks in turn took the lead at 6:55 when Mitch Marner lost his stick in the defensive zone. Horvat then sent the puck in front of the net and Marner tried to kick it with his skate, but it was instead on the blade of Chiasson’s stick that the disc ended up and he hastened to send it to the bottom of the net.
The Leafs’ formidable power play had a chance to tie the game in the period on a penalty awarded to defenseman Luke Schenn, but Demko rose at the right time, especially on a scoring chance from William Nylander .
