Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the Phoenix Coyotes (21-14-9, 51 points) and Winnipeg Jets (19-23-5, 43 points) hit the ice at the MTS Centre for the first of three meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Phoenix fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action on KTAR 92.3 while Winnipeg fans can do the same on TSN 1290.
Phoenix is coming off of a subpar homestand where the team lost four of six games while Winnipeg enters play in the midst of a five-game losing streak after having coach Claude Noel fired and tonight will be their first game under new head coach Paul Maurice.
Things haven't gone well for the Coyotes, and the team lost its most recent game to the Anaheim Ducks 5-3 on Saturday.
"Right now, we're not very good, and we haven't been very good for a while," captain Shane Doan said per NHL.com. "We've been fooling ourselves with finding ways to come back and get points."
The Jets are coming off of a 6-3 loss at the hands of the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday and will look to start Maurice's tenure behind the bench with a successful first game under his tutelage.
"I'm thrilled to be joining a first-class organization in Winnipeg and very happy to be back on an NHL bench," Maurice told TSN on Sunday.
The Jets have been led by Bryan Little (15-21-36), Dustin Byfuglien (10-25-35) and Blake Wheeler (16-17-33). Byfuglien has three goals and three assists for six points in his last five games.
Radim Vrbata (11-23-34), Martin Hanzal (13-19-32) and Mike Ribeiro (11-21-32) pace the Coyotes this season, and Vrbata has five assists in his past three games.
In the crease, Winnipeg is likely to go with Ondrej Pavelec, who is 11-19-4 with a 3.14 goals-against average and a .898 save percentage while Mike Smith is likely to start for Phoenix and is 15-11-8 with a 2.89 GAA and a .910 save percentage.
The Coyotes hope to bounce back after a rough homestand while the Jets seek to snap a five-game losing streak under their new coach when the lights come up tonight at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg
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