Central Division Weekly: Wild lose top scorer

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty ImagesWe’re closing out the third week of the season and the Arizona Coyotes and Chicago Blackhawks are in a race to see who can set a new league record for the earliest a team can be mathematically eliminated from playoffs, without a single win between them.

The other half of the Western Conference is supposed to be harder to win, but right now, things are still wide open for the Central’s six other teams.

Here’s this week in the Central at a glance:

Arizona Coyotes (0-6-1)

You can’t buy a win in Arizona these days. The Coyotes played in three games this week, getting outscored 13 to 4, including a shutout by the New York Islanders last Saturday. The team hasn’t…