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This is starting to get ridiculous, and it's almost enough to make you wonder if the Coyotes will ever lose another game.The combination of their 3-2 shootout win in Dallas on Sunday night, along with San Jose's embarrassing 5-1 loss in Edmonton has not only put Phoenix -- PHOENIX! -- in first place of the Pacific Division, but also in a tie for the top spot in the Western Conference with the Chicago Blackhawks, a team they just beat on Saturday with an impressive come-from-behind win.
No team in the Western Conference has more wins than Phoenix (46), while only the Washington Capitals have more in the entire league. The Coyotes haven't lost since their shopping spree at the trade deadline earlier this month, ripping off a nine-game winning streak after adding Lee Stempniak, Wojtek Wolski and Derek Morris, and they've also won 19 of their past 25 games, with eight of them coming by way of the shootout.
I suppose that can either be a good thing or a bad thing in the long run; after all, there's no shootout in the playoffs, but it's nice to keep taking advantage of it and improve your standing in the conference while you still can.
San Jose, meanwhile, is mired in a brutal slump, with Sunday's loss in Edmonton extending its current losing streak to six games, while also dropping nine of its past 13.
We all know the Sharks' recent reputation for bowing out of the playoffs sooner than expected, and this late-season slide isn't going to make that talk go away. It's just going to get it started earlier than usual. San Jose still gets one more crack at the Coyotes, closing out its regular season with what could be an epic matchup in San Jose on April 10.
Granted, Detroit isn't the same team it was two years ago when it won the Cup, or last year when it was one game away from winning it again, but it's still a playoff-tested, veteran group that is starting to get healthy and play its best hockey of the season at the right time.
Either way, this is setting up to be a great finish.
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