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TAMPA -- The Tampa Bay Lightning lost 4-1 to the Arizona Coyotes at Amalie Arena on Monday and failed to increase their lead atop the Atlantic Division.

Tampa Bay (51-21-4), which has clinched a Stanley Cup Playoff berth, leads the Boston Bruins by two points for first in the division, but the Bruins have two games in hand.
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Trevor Murphy, Jakob Chychrun, Brendan Perlini and Clayton Keller scored for the Coyotes (26-39-11), who have been eliminated from playoff contention but are 8-5-1 in their past 14 games. Antti Raanta made 19 saves.

"I was kind of hard on them in practice the other day, and they responded," Arizona coach Rick Tocchet said. "I liked the way we played tonight."
Nikita Kucherov scored, and Louis Domingue made 31 saves on 34 shots for the Lightning, who are 3-4-0 in their past seven games.
"Guys were trying, it was just one of those things where we lost our confidence a little bit when some of the things weren't going our way," Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. "We would get in the offensive zone and we were almost like one and done. It was one at the net and then there was a whistle, we just couldn't get our mojo going in the offensive zone."

Murphy gave the Coyotes a 1-0 lead at 10:45 of the second period with his first NHL goal in his second game.
"It's been an emotional ride throughout my junior career and pro career," the 22-year-old defenseman said. "The puck just came around. It took a good angle. I like those one-timers off the boards, and luckily it found the cage."
Chychrun made it 2-0 at 17:22 with a one-timer from the hash marks off a pass from Richard Panik.
Perlini made it 3-0 at 10:28 of the third period. The officials initially waved off the goal because of goaltender interference, but Tocchet challenged, and the call on the ice was overturned after video review showed Nick Cousins did not interfere with Domingue.
"I think we played so good in the first two periods, so we didn't want to change anything," Raanta said. "I think that we were still pushing hard in the third period. You know a team that's losing 2-0 is going to make a push, so you just need to make the push also and I think we weathered the storm and it was good."
Kucherov scored on the power play at 14:37 of the third period to make it 3-1, but Keller scored an empty-net goal with eight seconds left to make it 4-1 and extend his point streak to nine games (five goals, seven assists).
"I think we're trying to treat every game like a playoff game," Keller said. "We kind of get up for that and we just want to come out and finish the year strong and hopefully bring something home for next year."

The Lightning played without forward Steven Stamkos, who is day to day with a lower-body injury.
"We were definitely not as sharp offensively as we have been," Lightning defenseman Anton Stralman said. "I think we had some good looks, we just weren't able to find the back of the net."

Goal of the game

Chychrun's goal at 17:22 of the second period.

Save of the game

Raanta stopping Ondrej Palat at 1:58 of the third period.

Highlight of the game

Murphy's goal at 10:45 of the second period.

They said it

"They do a couple of high-level plays and we were just trying to make sure we stayed in their face. You give them time and space, and obviously they'll hurt you. [We] stuck to the game plan and played a good 60 minutes." -- Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet
"We've been pretty good, when we have to rise to the occasion, we usually have. Tonight, I don't know if it wasn't in the legs or it wasn't in the mind, I know the guys were upbeat and they were trying. It just seemed the harder we tried, the worse it got." -- Lightning coach Jon Cooper

Need to know

Keller set a Coyotes rookie record with his 23rd goal of the season, passing Peter Mueller from 2007-08. ... Lightning forward Adam Erne left the game in the first period with a lower-body injury.

What's next

Coyotes: At the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday (10 p.m. ET; ATTSN-RM, FS-A PLUS, NHL.TV)
Lightning: At the Boston Bruins on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; SN, TVAS, NESN, SUN, NHL.TV)