The Toronto Maple Leafs have lost seven of their last ten games, and the Arizona Coyotes were in the right place at the right time to take advantage.

The Leafs carried the play, hit the post, and generally found a way to avoid scoring goals, and the Coyotes were able to hold on, score a sweet empty netter, and earn the win.

Fun Fact

The Arizona Coyotes leading scorer is Clayton Keller with 34 points

The Colorado Avalanche leading scorer is Mikko Rantanen with 73 points

Both teams have 22 wins

— Connor⚡ (@_Kaprizov) January 21, 2019

The win moves the Coyotes to only four points back of the wild card spot currently occupied by Vancouver. Unfortunately, there are three teams between them and the glory of an eighth place finish.

The Blues, left for dead earlier, are only a point beyond the Coyotes with one game in hand.

Fun Fact: the Blues not only have a way better roster than any team they're fighting for the Wild Card against, but they can also catch Colorado and their eight loser points.

Less Fun Fact: The Coyotes are only six points out of last place.

But, back to last night's game. The Leafs were back after a road trip and the Coyotes should have been easy pickings for them, but they weren't and now we here in Toronto are being tortured by takes about the Islanders, Lou Lamoriello and Matt Martin.

Cause, you know, they play the right way. The RIGHT WAY.

Which is to get a random goalie to put up a .950 save percentage across a quarter of the schedule and then pretend they have amazing defense. Cause signing William Nylander was super dumb when you could have kept Matt Martin.

Honestly, I envy Coyotes fans their anonymity sometimes.



But, as much as the recent run of victories for the Coyotes has been, I'm trying not to get too excited, which isn't hard to do when you realize their four centres are currently Stepen-Cousins-Weal-Kemp.

I mean it's nice beat the Leafs and all, but it's also weird that Stepan would be the Leafs 4th centre and none of the other Coyotes centres would even be on their team.

Oh well! Coyotes are 5-3-2 in their last ten dressing a lineup missing six or seven regulars, and who knows how they're doing it, but they are.

Next up? Ottawa and then Montreal.

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