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GLENDALE Womens Torey Krug Jersey , Ariz. —Avalanche’s power play these days.Nobody can seem to score when the Arizona Coyotes‘ penalty-killing unit is on the ice these days – except the Coyotes themselves.The Avalanche and Coyotes are trending in opposite directions, with Colorado gaining a point in each of its last five games (4-0-1) and Arizona losing two straight, three of four and six of eight. Two of the Coyotes’ losses were in overtime.Article continues below ...But it’s likely special teams will decide the outcome when the two Western Conference teams meet Friday at Gila River Arena, where the Coyotes have lost their last two games and three of four.The Avalanche (11-6-4) scored three power plays during a 7-3 road win over the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday and now lead the NHL by converting 32.9 percent (23-of-70) of their power play opportunities. Colorado was 3-for-4 with the man advantage and is 8-for-11 in its past four games and 9-for-13 in its past five games.Colorado is 12-for-24 (50 percent) on the power play this month.“When our power play is clicking like that, it feels good and, obviously, it can win you games,” Avalanche left wing Gabriel Landeskog said. “Special teams, we know how important they can be, and we’re going to need that moving forward.”But no team is harder to score against even with an extra skater on the ice than the Coyotes.Arizona (9-9-2) has allowed an NHL-low five power-play goals in 20 games while scoring a league-leading 10 shorthanded goals. The Coyotes are the first team in NHL history to be plus-5 on the penalty kill at any point in a season. Overall, Arizona has killed off 57 of 62 opposition power plays (91.9 percent).But those successful penalty kills aren’t translating into wins for the Coyotes, who are 2-4-2 since winning five in a row Tuukka Rask Jersey , including 1-2-1 on home ice. Part of the reason is a power play that’s as inefficient as the Coyotes’ penalty-killing unit is efficient, ranking in a tie for 28th on the power play (10-for-64, 15.6 percent).Arizona couldn’t score on a power play that ended the third period carried over into the first five seconds of overtime Wednesday, and the Coyotes ended up losing to the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 on Max Pacioretty’s second goal of the game, at 3:36 of overtime. Vegas controlled the puck nearly the entire extra period.“In overtime, we never had the puck,” Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said.Derek Stepan scored twice, including a power-play goal in the third period that made it 2-2, but Arizona can’t seem to gain any consistency with that power-play unit.“Honestly, the biggest thing was we scored, it doesn’t matter how it gets done, we scored a big goal to give our team a chance to win the game Zdeno Chara Jersey ,” Stepan said. “The power play, we’ve had a lot of discussions about it lately and we go forward with that.”Tocchet apparently was concerned enough that he held practice on Thanksgiving in advance of the second of three Coyotes home games in five days.Coyotes goalie Antti Raanta (lower-body injury) could return after missing the last eight games. Darcy Kuemper is 2-4-2 while starting every game since Raanta was hurt.Regardless of who is in goal, the Coyotes will be challenged to contain Colorado’s efficient offense, which has scored six or more goals five times this season. Forwards Mikko Rantanen (34 points, eight goals) and Nathan MacKinnon (31 points, 14 goals) are the top two scorers in the league.Coyotes forward Clayton Keller hasn’t scored a goal in 10 games since Oct. 27 after scoring five goals in five games. SEATTLE (AP) — The celebration outside the building Seattle’s NHL team will eventually call home Wednesday came with all the formality of a groundbreaking event with the principals taking turns giving remarks and ceremonially shoveling dirt.It also came with a new price tag even higher than what was stated a day earlier when Seattle was awarded the NHL’s 32nd franchise.The cost now is $850 million for the new arena at Seattle Center, according to Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke, with construction expected to get started almost immediately. That’s an increase of $200 million from the initial projections for the privately financed project, but the principals involved believe the increased investment is part of making the new building one of the top arenas in the country.“We never value engineered. That to me was an amazing commitment on behalf of ownership,” Leiweke said. “We did not do any value ownership on this project. Everything we dreamed about and more we have kept in this building and will write the check.”The ceremonial event — complete with heavy construction equipment sitting nearby the stage waiting — concluded a whirlwind 36 hours for hockey fans in the region. While it seemed a foregone conclusion, the unanimous vote from the NHL Board of Governors on Tuesday ended a lengthy dance between the league and the city and solved Seattle’s winter sports void created when the SuperSonics departed in 2008.The franchise will begin with the 2021-22 season after the league and ownership group decided not to risk an already tight arena construction schedule. Rather than having the franchise start for the 2020 season with the potential of delays possibly creating adverse conditions for the new team, the launch was delayed by a year.That does provide a cushion in the construction timeline Eric Fehr Jersey Womens , but it’s not a complete year. Leiweke noted the start of the hockey franchise will be pushed back a year to October 2021, the extra time on getting the arena finished is only a few months. The goal is to have the building open by March or April of 2021 so that the WNBA Seattle Storm can play the 2021 season in the building and other events can be scheduled to start recouping the investment on the project.Tod Lewieke, the CEO and president of NHL Seattle, said the additional time should allow the team to have its three-rink practice facility completed in time for the team’s first training camp in 2021. The team also intends to have its expansion draft in the new arena in the summer of 2021.And the extended time frame should reduce some of the construction disruptions in a neighborhood that is dense with condos and apartments.“We’ve always wanted to build in a very responsible way so we’re going got have a little more time to do that,” Tod Leiweke said.By the time the entirety of all the projects and investments in the franchise is realized with the team’s first game — arena, expansion fee, practice facility and other costs — bringing the franchise to Seattle could end up running in the neighborhood of $2 billion.“This marketplace is brilliant,” Tim Leiweke said. “This marketplace is the fastest growing marketplace in North America. So it demands brilliance and we’re going to answer it so we make sure we don’t sit here five years after it opens and say ‘we could have done better.’ We’re going to be great day one and that’s what Seattle deserves.”