TEMPE, Ariz. — Conor Garland capped his first profession hat trick 1:19 into additional time, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Arizona Coyotes 5-4 Thursday evening within the season finale for each groups.

Elias Pettersson scored his thirty ninth aim and J.T. Miller received his thirty second for the Canucks. Rick Tocchet completed 20-12-4 after changing Bruce Boudreau as Vancouver’s coach. Quinn Hughes had three assists to present him 69 for the season, and Andrei Kuzmenko had two assists and Collin Delia had 24 saves.

“I thought the Coyotes really worked hard,” mentioned Tocchet, who coached the Coyotes for 4 seasons ending in 2020-21. “It was a weird game, we got the win but it’s one of those games where I think both teams just wanted to get the season over with.”

Liam O’Brien scored twice and Nick Schmaltz and Travis Boyd every had a aim for the Coyotes, who accomplished their first season at Mullett Arena with a 21-16-4 residence file. Clayton Keller assisted on Boyd’s aim within the waning seconds of the primary interval, permitting him to tie Keith Tkachuk for probably the most factors in a season (86) because the Coyotes moved to the desert in 1996.

Karel Vejmelka completed with 19 saves for Arizona.

“Really proud of the way we battled,” Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny mentioned. “They never quit. Would have been easy tonight, we were down early. I think it was a good (reflection) of our season. They showed a lot of character.”

PHOTOS: Garland's hat trick offers Canucks 5-4 OT win over Coyotes

Vancouver dominated the opening portion of the sport; at one level the Canucks had 4 objectives and the Coyotes had simply three pictures on aim however Arizona ended up with a 28-24 pictures benefit.

Pettersson opened the scoring 3:53 into the sport. On Monday he reached the 100-point mark, simply the sixth to hit that milestone for the Canucks since they entered the NHL in 1970-71.

After O’Brien tied it up at 5:08, Keller was penalized for delay of sport at 6:06 after placing the puck out of play. With 3 seconds left within the energy play, Garland scored to present the Canucks a 2-1 lead.

Miller scored on the facility play with 7:39 remaining within the first with Boyd off for holding, and Garland’s second of the interval with 5:44 left put Vancouver in management at 4-1. However, Boyd scored with simply 7 seconds to go within the interval to present Arizona some momentum heading to the break.

After the Canucks had 16 pictures on aim within the first interval, they managed solely two within the second and had been lucky to maintain the lead. O’Brien’s second, with the identical duo of Michael Kesselring and Jack McBain aiding, got here halfway by way of the interval. The Coyotes additionally managed to remain out of the penalty field within the second.

Schmaltz tied it with 3:40 remaining, getting profession aim No. 100.

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