The Arizona Coyotes knew that tonight was going to be much harder.
No hockey game is easy, but the Coyotes' first two games were against the San Jose Sharks, a team that is expected to finish at the bottom of the Division and probably conference. Tonight they would be playing the Vegas Golden Knights, a favorite to win the division.
And for a while, it looked like the Coyotes were going to pull it off. They were the dominant team for the first two periods only to fall apart in the third.