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Coyotes continue slide with loss to Bruins: By the Numbers

Mar 1, 2015, 1:25 AM | Updated: 1:26 am

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The Coyotes finished off their four-game East Coast road trip Saturday with a loss, falling 4-1 to the Boston Bruins.

Unfortunately, this isn’t a new feeling for Arizona, who has lost its last nine straight and is one consecutive loss away from tying a franchise record (10, Winnipeg, 1994).

The Bruins, on the other hand, have won three of their last four and came out hot against the ‘Yotes.

Milan Lucic netted Boston’s first goal with 17:20 left in the first period with a bank shot off Arizona goaltender Mike Smith’s right pad.

Lucic’s teammate, Brad Marchand, had the second with 5:30 left in the first — an absolute scorcher to the upper corner:

Things went from bad to worse for the Coyotes when Patrice Bergeron backhanded one off Keith Yandle’s skate in the second period for a third Bruins goal. Boston would go up one more off a power play goal from Zdeno Chara in the period.

Martin Erat finally got a piece of a Shane Doan stick to put the Coyotes on the board, but as has been so often this season, it was too little and much too late for the goal to help break the nine-game slide.

What did the loss look like, by the numbers?

0

Smith had let in four goals before he was pulled and backup Louis Domingue was sent in.

Domingue allowed zero scores and made 13 saves — a silver lining of the game for the struggling Coyotes.

34/32

Arizona almost matched Boston shot-for-shot with 32 to the Bruins’ 34.

31

Boston goaltender Tuukar Rask made 31 saves after missing the last game due to illness.

5-0

Ross is now 5-0 against Arizona this season.

6

Boston has won the last six games against the Coyotes, who will return to Arizona to host the Anaheim Ducks Tuesday, March 3 at 7:00 p.m.

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