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OTTAWA Jake Allen Jersey , Ontario (AP) — Led by the line of Derek Stepan, Vinnie Hinostroza and Richard Panik, the Arizona Coyotes added another victory to their recent surge.Hinostroza scored twice and had an assist to propel Arizona past the Ottawa Senators 3-2 on Tuesday night.Stepan also scored for the Coyotes, who are 6-1-1 in their last eight games. Darcy Kuemper stopped 25 shots.“They came out flying in the first 10 minutes and (Kuemper) kept us in the game,” Hinostroza said. “We stuck to what’s worked for us and it led to some goals and some good defense. We’ve been playing really good hockey right now and we like where this is going and we just want to keep it going.”Bobby Ryan and Ryan Dzingel had the goals for the Senators. Craig Anderson, making his second start after missing 12 games with a concussion, finished with 30 saves.Nobody will want to forget this game more than Ottawa rookie Brady Tkachuk. He struggled throughout and had a turnover that resulted in a Coyotes goal.“No one’s going to take it harder than him, I’m sure,” Ryan said. “As teammates we need to say, ‘We need you down the stretch. We need you to be the player that you’re going to be. You’re going to have growing pains. Everyone is going to turn pucks over Joel Edmundson Jersey , it’s just the way it goes.’“For him, he’s so competitive and so hard on himself that you want to lighten that load on him a little bit as older guys and just tell him, ‘We’re not blaming that game on you by any means or that goal.’ It’s all part of the game, but Brady’s going to be a hell of a player and we’re going to stick by him.”The Coyotes led 3-1 to start the third period, but Ottawa made it a one-goal game when Dzingel scored his 20th at the seven-minute mark.Mark Stone had a great chance for the equalizer, but was unable to get a decent shot off in time.Trailing 1-0, the Senators tied the game in the opening minutes of the second. Dzingel made a great pass to Ryan, who made no mistake in beating Kuemper high glove side.Arizona wasted no time regaining the lead, scoring twice in a span of three minutes.“We had a tough second period,” Anderson said. “It was one of those things where we played pretty good in the first Vladimir Tarasenko Jersey , and the second period it was back and forth and they had momentum for a little bit and got momentum and got a couple goals.”Hinostroza got his second of the game when he took a bounce off the end boards and squeezed the puck behind Anderson.Stepan made it 3-1 when he completed a nice give-and-go with Panik.“The Stepan line was excellent,” Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said. “They had a lot of possession time, they changed momentum when they were on the ice, so they did a great job for us.”The Coyotes opened the scoring midway through the period as they took advantage of Tkachuk’s turnover. Panik intercepted Tkachuk’s pass and sent the puck to Hinostroza, who was all alone at the side of the net.Earlier in the period Tkachuk fell at the blue line, allowing Josh Archibald to break in alone on Anderson.The win did prove costly for the Coyotes as captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson left the game with a lower-body injury and will be re-evaluated Wednesday. Niklas Hjalmarsson exited early in the third after taking a puck to the face, but he returned.NOTES: The Senators were without Ben Harpur and Colin White, while Rudolfs Balcers was a healthy scratch. … Ilya Lyubushkin and Laurent Dauphin were healthy scratches for the Coyotes.UP NEXTCoyotes: Back in action Wednesday at Montreal.Senators: Off until Feb. 1 when they take on Pittsburgh. MONTREAL (AP) — All eyes were on P.K. Subban and Shea Weber. Craig Smith stole the show.Smith scored twice and the Nashville Predators defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-1 on Saturday night in the second matchup between Subban and Weber since the blockbuster trade in 2016.Weber scored against his former team and Subban had two assists in a game in which Smith’s team-leading 13th and 14th goals of the season were the difference.“He had a super strong game,” coach Peter Laviolette said of Smith. “He was physical, he was fast Alex Killorn Jersey Kids , he was competitive on pucks. And obviously he chipped in on offense as well.”The Predators were playing their second game in as many nights, coming off a 4-3 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Friday. But Nashville came out with speed and the Canadiens couldn’t match it.Smith extended his personal point streak to five games when he put Subban’s rebound past Carey Price at 10:44 of the first period to give the Predators a 1-0 lead. Smith has scored in three straight games.The Predators outshot Montreal 16-11 in the first period as the Canadiens lost for the first time in three games.“Tough first period really set us behind,” said Weber, who scored his second career goal against Nashville. “Tough team to come back against. They played last night and they came out with a better effort to start the game. They caught us sleeping.”Nashville went up 2-0 with 36 seconds remaining in the first period after Mattias Ekholm’s slap shot deflected off Max Domi’s stick and beat Price high.Weber got one back for the Canadiens at 12:47 of the second period when he threw a bouncing puck on net.Smith answered 18 seconds later on a wraparound. Subban’s assist on the goal was his 300th in the NHL.“It was simple,” Smith said of his second goal. “It was a hard forecheck. We got it up. Subby just found a hole to get it in. And you never know what could happen.”The Canadiens felt Smith prevented Price from making the save and challenged for goalie interference, but the call on the ice stood.“I haven’t seen the replay of it so I can’t make a fair assessment of it,” said Price, who made 28 saves. “But it was explained to me that I made contact outside the crease. It’s a moot point because it was their third goal and we obviously only scored one.”Montreal made a push in the third period, but Juuse Saros stopped all eight shots he faced. Saros made 27 saves in place of Pekka Rinne, who played Friday.Viktor Arvidsson scored into an empty net with 45 seconds left for Nashville.“That’s what you have to do on the road. You can’t give teams breathing space Andrei Vasilevskiy Jersey ,” Subban said. “For me to just come in and get two points, for our team to get two points on the road, that’s big for us. We haven’t had much consistency on our team for the past 15 or 20 games, so it’s a big win for us.”The Predators have collected points in four straight games (3-0-1) despite recent injuries to Filip Forsberg, Kyle Turris and Yannick Weber.NOTES: The Predators play four more games on their current season-high six-game trip. … Weber and Subban faced off for the first time on Mar. 2, 2017, when Montreal won 2-1 at Bell Centre. . This was the fifth game between Montreal and Nashville since the trade in the summer of 2016.UP NEXTPredators: At Toronto on Monday.Canadiens: Host Minnesota on Monday.