Chychrun helps Coyotes recover, defeat Maple Leafs in OT

TORONTO --Jakob Chychrun scored his second goal of the game 2:17 into overtime to give the Arizona Coyotes a 5-4 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena on Thursday.

Chychrun one-timed a pass from Matias Maccelli at the right face-off dot.
"It happened a few times earlier in the year where we had bad third periods and just kind of fell apart, but we've been playing better and sticking with it and I think that showed tonight with our confidence," Chychrun said.
Alex Galchenyuk had a goal and an assist, and Scott Wedgewood made 34 saves for the Coyotes (18-35-4), who have scored 24 goals in a four-game winning streak.
Alex Kerfoot had a goal and two assists, and William Nylander had a goal and an assist for the Maple Leafs (37-16-5), who had won five of seven. Petr Mrazek allowed four goals on 12 shots before being pulled 11:57 into the second period. Erik Kallgren made 10 saves in relief in his NHL debut.
"[Erik] was great, he was calm, cool, collected," Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe said. "Some big saves. He looked confident for a guy going in for the first time under those circumstances with no heads-up. I thought he looked excellent. Obviously nothing he could do at all on the winning goal.
"It's tough [for Mrazek], I don't know what else to say. It's tough. When you give up the first two like that you can't give up three and four. You've got to find a way to make the saves for us in that case, so at that point it was obvious we needed to change."

Toronto trailed 4-1 in the third period before scoring three goals in a span of 4:39 to tie the game. Arizona coach Andre Tourigny said he was tempted to call a timeout after the tying goal.
"Yeah, I was, but it's the environment," Tourigny said. "The crowd would have loved me if I had asked for a timeout. They would have gotten into it and given even more urging to their team. The plan was to wait until the next whistle, but the next whistle turned out to be a TV timeout. I thought about it, but my rationale was let's weather the storm on the next shift and then next whistle I'll ask for a timeout, but I didn't need it."
Kerfoot got Toronto within 4-2 at 3:38 with his 10th goal of the season with a shot from the high slot.
Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 44th goal at 8:07 to make it 4-3 when he got around Coyotes defenseman J.J. Moser and cut across the crease. Matthews has scored seven goals during a four-game goal streak.
Nylander tied it 4-4 10 seconds later on a partial breakaway.
"It was a tie game, you can't get down," Chychrun said. "It's like a 0-0 game, you just have to treat it like that and stay in the present. I think when you give up quick ones you can kind of get down, but as a group we just stayed calm and told each other we're still in this thing."

Galchenyuk put the Coyotes up 1-0 at 2:09 of the first period when he put in a rebound in the slot from Riley Nash's shot.
Chychrun made it 2-0 at 4:21 when he directed a pass from Phil Kessel toward the net that got past Mrazek, who went down and was unable to get across the crease. Toronto challenged for offside, but the goal was upheld after video review.
Travis Boyd extended the lead to 3-0 at 1:08 of the second period when he swatted the puck out of the air behind the goal line and banked it off Maple Leafs defenseman Timothy Liljegren in the crease.
Pierre Engvall cut it to 3-1 at 4:55 when he put in a loose puck in the crease.
Christian Fischer made it 4-1 at 11:57 when he shot over Mrazek's glove in the high slot.
"We gave ourselves a chance, and Erik gave us a chance in there, so we battled back, got a point, but obviously tonight is just not good enough from the start," Matthews said. "We didn't get playing until the third period."
Kessel had an assist in 17:25 in his 957th consecutive NHL game after playing one shift in a 9-2 win at the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday before leaving to fly back to Arizona to be with his wife for the birth of their child.
"I don't want to sit out," Kessel said. "I've had injuries, I could have sat out many a time, but I just don't want to be in the stands. I love to play the game and I don't want to not be out there. I always try to play no matter what, so I was fortunate I was able to play."
NOTES: Maple Leafs forward Mitchell Marner had his eight-game point and assist streak end. He scored 17 points (six goals, 11 assists) in the run. … Chychrun has scored 10 points (five goals, five assists) in the past six games. … Coyotes forward Nick Schmaltz had an assist and has scored 12 points (four goals, eight assists) in the past three games. … Arizona forward Clayton Keller had an assist to increase his point streak to four games (nine points; three goals, six assists). … Maccelli had his first two NHL assists. … Kallgren was recalled from Toronto of the American Hockey League on Thursday on an emergency basis after goalie Jack Campbell sustained a rib injury in a 6-4 win against the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday. Campbell will be out at least two weeks. Kallgren was selected in the seventh round (No. 183) by the Coyotes in the 2015 NHL Draft. … Toronto has used five goalies this season (Mrazek, Campbell, Joseph Woll, Michael Hutchinson, Kallgren) to tie its 1983-84 record for most in a season. ... Kessel started his streak on Nov. 3, 2009 with the Maple Leafs and played the first 446 games of it for them (through 2014-15).