{"id":20240,"date":"2017-01-24T07:19:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=20240"},"modified":"2017-01-24T07:19:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:19:46","slug":"rieder-scores-ot-coyotes-hand-panthers-4th-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/rieder-scores-ot-coyotes-hand-panthers-4th-straight-loss.html","title":{"rendered":"Rieder scores in OT, Coyotes hand Panthers 4th straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rieder scores in OT, Coyotes hand Panthers 4th straight loss<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

With their All-Star goalie off his game, the Arizona Coyotes needed others to come up big Monday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two rookies, a veteran fourth-liner and a center cut loose by Winnipeg at the beginning of the month did just that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tobias Rieder scored 48 seconds into overtime to give the Coyotes a 3-2 win over the slumping Florida Panthers. Rieder converted a pass from Alexander Burmistrov, who has five assists in his first five games with Arizona after being claimed off waivers from the Jets.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Burmy made a nice play and I stepped right into that one and luckily it went in,” Rieder said. “Good things happen when you put the puck on the net.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Smith struggled to gather in pucks all night but made 23 saves for the Coyotes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo faced 42 shots, a season high for Arizona.<\/span><\/p>\n

Florida has lost four in a row and five of six. Arizona won its second straight to match its longest win streak of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Roberto played great,” Panthers coach Tom Rowe said. “Goaltenders that we have give us a chance to win every night, but we are still being a little too sloppy with the puck in the neutral zone.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian Fischer and Ryan White scored 12 seconds apart early in the second period for the Coyotes, who trailed 1-0 after one. Off a faceoff, the 19-year-old Fischer got the deflection of Jakob Chychrun’s shot and beat Luongo stick side to tie it at 2:03.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fischer became the first player in franchise history to score a goal in each of the first two games of his career. He also scored in his NHL debut against Tampa Bay on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I was a lot more comfortable. First game, full of emotions,” Fischer said. “I played my game more and I was more confident with the puck.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Seconds later, White, a fourth-line winger with only two goals before Monday, took a pass wide open on the right side off another draw, faked a shot and then fired a wrist shot past Luongo for a 2-1 Coyotes lead. Chychrun got an assist on that goal, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chychrun, a rookie who grew up a Panthers fan in South Florida, recorded his first multipoint game and has four points in his last four games.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It was kind of a mucky game,” Coyotes coach Dave Tippett said. “I was happy the way our guys stuck with it, because there were some times in that game where I didn’t think either team was probably as good as they needed to be.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Panthers drew even at 6:34 of the second. Michael Sgarbossa put in a backhand going away off his own rebound for his second goal of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Florida’s Vincent Trocheck was whistled for slashing at 11:56 of the first period, giving Arizona its first power play. But the Panthers killed the penalty and, seconds afterward, Trocheck put in a rebound for the game’s first goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trocheck collected a deflection off Smith’s glove, the result of a shot by Jakub Kindl, and scored his team-leading 18th of the season with 5:36 left in the period.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trocheck had another shot hit the post at 16:35, and the Panthers withstood another Coyotes power play before the period was over.<\/span><\/p>\n

NOTES: Former Coyote Keith Yandle played in his 600th consecutive regular-season game. The Panthers’ defenseman was drafted by the Coyotes in 2005. … D Dylan McIlrath and G James Reimer were scratched for the Panthers. Reimer is away from the team for a personal matter. … D Kevin Connauton, F Jordan Martinook and F Josh Jooris were the Coyotes’ lineup scratches. Martinook is dealing with an upper-body injury. … Coyotes F Lawson Crouse faced his former team for the first time since the Panthers traded him in the offseason. Crouse was drafted by Florida in the first round in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/2017\/01\/23\/rieder-scores-in-ot-coyotes-hand-panthers-4th-straight-loss\/96979362\/<\/span><\/div>\n

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