Picking up a different style of play hasn’t been the only adjustment the Coyotes have had to make under new coach Rick Tocchet.

They’ve also learned a new vocabulary.

“I think everybody’s getting used to it and figuring everything out,” winger Jordan Martinook said.

Tocchet has mentioned being “sticky,” going “surfing” and finding the “good ice” – unfamiliar terms that describe normal on-ice actions. And although players weren’t handed a dictionary on Day 1 of training camp, they’ve gotten up to speed on Tocchet’s terminology.

“It’s different words that we haven’t heard before, but we still understand,” winger Anthony Duclair said. “It’s still hockey talk. The more he says it, the more we understand it. It’s a new system and the way he talks, I guess, but everyone’s on the same page. I haven’t heard those meanings as well before but just him explaining and looking at the video and it saying as well, it helps.”

Break the seal

Definition: A reserve of energy that a player taps into when he’s tired to chip a puck out or block a shot that Tocchet likened to the extra miles a car is able to drive on empty before needing to refuel.

Example: “You can’t be tired,” Tocchet said. “You have to push it. … You break the seal.”

Good ice

Definition: Space that’s available to a player when he’s in the corner and defenders close in on his back.

Example: “(Rookie Clayton Keller) gets the puck in the corner, his heart rate goes down, he doesn’t throw pucks away,” Tocchet said. “He can find the good ice and make a play or he can hold it. In today’s rules, if you’re a player that can do that with his skill level, you can be a pretty darn good player in this league, and I think he has that temperament to have that puck in the corner and not throw pucks away or not see anything. He’s really good at that, and that’s something he’s going to get better at, for sure.”

Slashing

Definition: A rush across the ice that supports the puck and pushes defensemen deeper into their zone.

Example: “(Winger Christian Fischer) did a good job slashing,” Tocchet said.

Sticky

Definition: Using body position to hold onto the puck in the corner so that it stays on the stick like it’s attached with Velcro.

Example: “He’s sticky," Tocchet said. "When he gets in the corner, somehow he always gets that puck because he plays a sticky style."

Surfing

Definition: When a defenseman closes the gap on a forward by skating toward the puck carrier at a curve rather than a straight line, allowing him to dictate the direction of play.

Example: “Surf up on the guy,” Tocchet said.

Wounded snake

Definition: A game situation in which one team is in control but easing off can be costly.

Example: “We had Anaheim 4-1, and we let them off,” Tocchet said. “They were a wounded snake. We let our foot off, and they bit us and beat us.”

Dink

Definition: Advancing the puck by using a short pass or a chip. These can happen in front of the net or in the corners.

Example: “We want to use a dink play against this forecheck,” Tocchet said.

Injury update

Backup Louis Domingue started Saturday against the Bruins with No.1 Antti Raanta remaining day-to-day with a lower-body injury.

Raanta was injured in the first period Thursday, his second setback this season, as he dealt with a left leg spasm during training camp. This was Domingue’s second start and fourth appearance.

Defenseman Kevin Connauton, who was considered a game-time decision after missing Thursday's game with a lower-body injury, did not play Saturday.

Bruins (1-2) vs. Coyotes (0-3-1)

Puck drop: 6 p.m.

TV/Radio: Fox Sports Arizona/KTAR-AM (620).

Backup Louis Domingue will start in net for the Coyotes against the Bruins, a source said.

“I gotta be better, and I gotta play with a swagger that I know I have because I’ve done the job in the league,” Domingue said. “I’ve played enough games to know that I belong here, so I gotta prove that I can do the job.”

Winger Clayton Keller has a team-high three goals through four games.

“He’s not scared,” coach Rick Tocchet said. “The goals he gets, he goes to the net. He’s got hit a few times. He bounces up. He’s got swagger. I really like him. He’s a good kid.”

The Coyotes are the only team in the Western Conference that has yet to win a game this season.

“We could easily be 3-1 right now,” defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson said. “But at the same time, close enough is not good enough. So we’re going to have to work on some things and move forward. I think we’ve been doing some good things that we need to keep doing, and we have been doing some things that we need to clean up. So that’s what we’re trying to do.”

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Fast facts for Saturday’s game

Keller leads all rookies in average ice time (20:29).

He’s tallied a point in five of his seven career NHL games.

Arizona went 0-2 against Boston last season.

The team scored just one goal in each of those games.

Defenseman Luke Schenn has 15 points in 35 career games against the Bruins.

The Bruins have lost two straight.

They’ve been outscored 10-3 in those games.

Boston’s power play is 2-for-13 to start the season.

The team’s penalty kill has given up three goals in 13 shorthanded situations.

Winger Brad Marchand has a team-high two goals and is tied for the team lead in points with 3.

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Possible Coyotes lines:

Domi-Stepan-Keller

Crouse-Dvorak-Fischer

Martinook-Cousins-Duclair

Kempe-Richardson-Rieder

Ekman-Larsson-Clendening

Hjalmarsson-Demers

Goligoski-Schenn

Domingue

Potential scratches: Connauton, Rinaldo and Raanta.

Injury update: Goalie Antti Raanta (lower-body injury) is day-to-day. Defenseman Kevin Connauton (lower-body injury) is questionable to play. Winger Brendan Perlini (upper-body injury) and defenseman Jakob Chychrun (knee) are on injured reserve.

Possible Bruins lines:

Marchand-Nash-Pastrnak

DeBrusk-Krejci-Bjork

Beleskey-Spooner-Vatrano

Schaller-Kuraly-Heinen

Chara-Carlo

Krug-McQuaid

Miller-McAvoy

Rask

Potential scratches: Postma, Czarnik and Bergeron.

Injury update: Center Patrice Bergeron (lower-body injury) is day-to-day. Forwards David Backes (diverticulitis) and Noel Acciari (finger surgery) are on injured reserve.

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