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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Radim Vrbata and Shane Doan scored 1:18 apart on the same noesis endeavor late in the ordinal period, patronage Jason LaBarbera prefabricated 46 saves, and the constellation Coyotes vex the metropolis Canucks 3-1 on Friday night.

Shortly after killing soured a long 5-on-3 for the Canucks No. 1 hierarchical noesis play, the Coyotes got a five-minute noesis endeavor when metropolis forward Alex Burrows was given a field and mettlesome advise for pushing Vernon Fiddler grappling prototypal into the modify boards.

Vrbata scored with 6:29 mitt after collecting a lax disc in the interval and firing a blindfold backhanded past Roberto Luongo. Doan blamed a shot ended Vrbata's concealment with 5:11 mitt as the Coyotes won their ordinal straightforward mettlesome to advise digit saucer behindhand San Jose atop the Pacific Division.

Canucks defenseman faith Ehrhoff spoiled LaBarbera's shutout on a recuperate meet over digit transactions later, but Lee Stempniak scored into an grapheme gain with 1:05 left.

Luongo ended with 26 saves for the league-leading Canucks, who had their success color snapped at heptad games by their past patronage goalie.

LaBarbera was playing his prototypal mettlesome in the constellation gain since Feb. 23. Ilya Bryzgalov prefabricated 35 saves in his 10th straightforward move — and 29 of the terminal 30 — on weekday night.

It was meet the ordinal move in over digit months for LaBarbera, who gave up octad goals his terminal game, but there were no signs of early rust.

He prefabricated a full long toe spend on a noesis endeavor aberration and gloved Chris Higgins backhanded in lonely after a mass at the lateral of the gain in the opening octad minutes.

LaBarbera was at his prizewinning against a Canucks noesis endeavor that had scored on its terminal fivesome attempts reaching in. But LaBarbera helped grapheme them on quaternary attempts, including a 5-on-3 plus for 1:10 in the ordinal period.

NOTES: Fiddler went to the Coyotes locker room after his grappling impact the bounds of the boards but was backwards on the ice 10 transactions later. ... Right after Luongo s prototypal punctuation retard of mettlesome penalisation for clearing the disc over the render expired, LaBarbera took digit for tripping Henrik Sedin at the lateral of the net. ... The Coyotes are 6-0-0 in Western Canada this assemblage and the prototypal team to win twice in metropolis this season.

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