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Coyotes' offence comes alive to shoot down Stars
Rediscovers scoring touch to beat Dallas for fifth time in a row
- Reuters
- Published: 00:00 November 29, 2009
Phoenix : The Phoenix Coyotes broke free of their goal-scoring struggles to pound the Dallas Stars 5-2 on Friday.
Mired near the bottom of the NHL scoring charts, the Coyotes finally found some firepower to avoid a third defeat in a row.
Lauri Korpikoski recorded his first two goals of the season while Robert Lang, Adrian Aucoin and Zbynek Michalek also scored to give Phoenix (14-11-1) a 5-0 lead.
"Our whole team broke through," Coyotes coach Dave Tippett said.
"It's nice compared to where we've been the last few games. In the third period we had a lot of players put in a lot of extra time ... it was nice to have the lead."
Brenden Morrow and Mike Ribeiro scored late goals for the Stars (11-7-7), who fell to a second straight defeat and have now lost five in a row to the Coyotes.
Goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov made 30 saves.
RESULTS
New Jersey 2 BOSTON 1
Buffalo 4 PHILI 2
NY ISL'DERS 3 Pittsburgh 2
MINNESOTA 5 Colorado 3
ANAHEIM 3 Chicago 0
Atlanta 6 CAROLINA 4
Calgary 3 DETROIT 0
TAMPA BAY 5 NY Rangers 1
Toronto 6 FLORIDA 4
St Louis 3 NASHVILLE 1
PHOENIX 5 Dallas 2
San Jose 5 EDMONTON 4
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