Coyotes end 5-game home skid, blank Wild (AP)

Digging pucks out of the corners, finishing checks to the boards and squeezing the defensive zone down to tiny patches of ice, Phoenix returned to the gritty game it had gotten away from during a miserable couple of weeks. Throw in a drought-busting goal by Taylor Pyatt and Ilya Bryzgalov’s fourth shutout, this could be the kind of win that jolts the Coyotes back into their grind-til-the-end…