Barrett Hayton scored with 3:00 left in overtime, and the Arizona Coyotes increased their longest point streak in 11 years to nine games with a 3-2 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday night in Tempe, Ariz.
Hayton scored the first overtime goal of his NHL career on a one-timer off a pass from Matias Maccelli.
Travis Boyd and Nick Schmaltz also scored, and Connor Ingram made 34 saves for the Coyotes, who are 5-0-4 in their past nine games.
The last time Arizona had a nine-game point streak was in February of 2012, when it went on an 11-0-1 run.
Boone Jenner had a goal and an assist, Patrik Laine also scored and Elvis Merzlikins made 22 saves for the Blue Jackets, who were trying to win three in a row for the first time this season.
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Laine tied it 2-2 with 4:53 left in the third period when he scored on a one-timer late in a power play.
The Coyotes took a 1-0 lead at 14:14 of the first when Troy Stecher took a slap shot from just above the right faceoff circle and Boyd redirected the puck into the net for his eighth goal of the season.
Arizona made it 2-0 at 16:28.
Clayton Keller brought the puck into the Columbus zone and took a slap shot from the top of the left circle. The shot missed wide, banked off the end boards and came out to Schmaltz coming through the right circle on the other side and he sent a one-timer past Merzlikins.
Ingram made 85 straight saves over three appearances before Jenner scored with a deflection to make it 2-1 at 13:23 of the second period.
Ingram had not allowed a goal in 147:08, the fifth-longest scoreless streak in the NHL this season.
Ingram made a save on a breakaway by Emil Bemstrom with 27 seconds left in the third period to send the game to overtime.
The New York Rangers have the longest active point streak in the NHL at 10 games (8-0-2).
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