Coyotes Game 39 Recap: Coyotes fall 4-0 to Islanders

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The Arizona Coyotes had a very slow start for the second straight game. But unlike Wednesday against the New Jersey Devils, the Coyotes couldn’t recover in enough time and fell to the New York Islanders tonight.

It thankfully didn’t take most of the period for the Coyotes to get their first shot on goal, but they weren’t getting any good chances. We saw an early two-minute 4-on-4 with Alex Galchenyuk getting called for hooking and Brock Nelson getting called for embellishment, but neither team could do much with the extra ice.

It was a low shooting first period, and the Islanders didn’t get their first shot on goal until midway through the first…