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Coyotes coach Dave Tippett is not happy with the myriad mistakes his team is making on its current five-game road trip. Arizona is 0-3 on the trip heading into Sunday’s game at Carolina.

There have been too many miscues to break them all down, including a pair of mistakes on disallowed Arizona goals because defenseman Connor Murphy was offside in Detroit and Martin Hanzal interfered with Sabres goalie Chad Johnson.

For the purposes of this analysis, we’ll look at 13 of those 15 goals (excluding empty-netters) and highlight some of the errors that led to those goals. A video link to each goal is included from nhl.com.

NASHVILLE 5, ARIZONA 2

Predators’ 1st goal: After goalie Mike Smith makes a pair of saves, including a wraparound try by James Neal, Arizona defenseman Klas Dahlbeck has a chance to clear the zone but he rushes the play and throws a blind, hard puck off the wall that Predators defenseman Roman Josi keeps in the zone. Nashville defenseman Shea Weber eventually gets the puck at the left circle with Calle Jarnkrok parked in the slot. Dahlbeck covers his man at the far post but Coyotes defenseman Zbynek Michalek loses Jarnkrok as he comes out to challenge Weber. Jarnkrok gets his stick on the crossing pass to redirect it past Smith.

Predators’ 2nd goal: Coyotes defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson tries to thread a pass across the ice to defensive partner Michael Stone, in his own zone, between two Nashville defenders. Nashville center Mike Ribeiro intercepts the pass, walks in alone and beats Smith, who had no chance. The smart play would have been for Ekman-Larsson to play the puck off the near boards to either Kyle Chipchura or Jordan Martinook, both of whom made themselves available for a pass. This particular pass would rarely be considered a good idea, but with the Coyotes nursing 2-1 lead in the third period, Ekman-Larsson has to recognize the game situation and make the safe play.

Predators’ 3rd goal: Just before the video begins, Nashville forward Filip Forsberg intercepts an errant pass from Coyotes defenseman Nicklas Grossmann, keeping the Coyotes hemmed in their own end. Grossmann appears to track Forsberg after the turnover, but allows Forsberg too wide a gap as Forsberg circles to the high slot. Seeing this, Forsberg a takes a stride straight down the slot and fires a puck past Smith to the far side from a high-percentage scoring area.

Predators’ 4th goal: Just before the video starts, Coyotes forward Max Domi tries to slip a pass from the boards to Dahlbeck, who is charging into the zone. With his team trailing 3-2 late, this is an understandable risk to take to try and produce the game-tying goal, but Domi’s pass is intercepted and the Predators get a 3-on-1 going the other way because Dahlbeck is caught deep in the zone, Domi is caught along the boards flat-footed and both forwards Antoine Vermette and Mikkel Boedker are caught deep. Forsberg gets his second of the night and the Coyotes are done, later allowing an empty-net goal.

DETROIT 5, ARIZONA 1

Red Wings’ 1st goal: Ekman-Larsson reaches a Detroit dump-in first, but Red Wings center Dylan Larkin intercepts his soft pass attempt to Stone behind the net, carries the puck to the circle and whips a pass to the front of the net where Ekman-Larsson compounds his mistake by not tying up Justin Abdelkader. Abdelkader’s backhand beats Smith for a 1-0 lead.

Red Wings’ 2nd goal: With 42 seconds left in the first period, Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall executes a perfect give-and-go with forward Tomas Tatar. After finding Tatar at the top of the circle, Kronwall burns Domi by crashing the net and taking a perfect touch pass from Tatar before beating Smith high to the glove side through a partial screen by Dahlbeck.

Red Wings’ 3rd goal: Eighteen seconds after Kronwall’s goal, Smith has a mental and tactical lapse on Gustav Nyquist’s bouncing puck from the red line. Rather than squaring himself to the puck and closing all holes, Smith leaves a gap under his arm and the puck squirts through, giving the Red Wings two goals in the final minute of the period, and a 3-0 lead that ends Smith’s night.

Red Wings’ 4th goal: Defenseman Danny DeKeyser’s goal is simply a product of lost puck battles and poor defensive zone structure. As he releases his shot (through a partial Connor Murphy screen), all five Coyotes are bunched down low and to the right of goalie Anders Lindback, giving DeKeyser the space to uncork a shot toward the far post that beats Lindback.

Red Wings’ 5th goal: This one is all on Lindback, who misplays a puck from behind his net right onto Darren Helm’s stick for an open-net gimme. Detroit forward Luke Glendening may have bothered Lindback as he stopped the puck behind his net, but the angle of Lindback’s stick, as he looks to pass to Ekman-Larsson, is headed straight toward Helm.

BUFFALO 5, ARIZONA 2

Sabres’ 1st goal: Ekman-Larsson tries rather casually to knock a loose puck out of the air with his stick in front of the net and overskates it, allowing Sabres forward Sam Reinhart to collect it. With everyone now out of position, Reinhart skates below the goal line and banks a shot off Smith, who does not close off the shot/pass by getting to the post. In fairness to Smith, he came out to challenge Reinhart while he was still in front of the net and had a chance to shoot. Ekman-Larsson has to make sure the puck gets to the corner with his team nursing a 1-0 lead.

Sabres’ 2nd goal: With the Coyotes getting at least one forward off for a change, center Martin Hanzal gets tangled with Buffalo forward Jamie McGinn in the neutral zone and releases McGinn. McGinn skates right up the slot and takes a feed from Jack Eichel with defenseman Michael Stone caught all the way back at the hashmarks, creating too wide a gap to close. McGinn buries a hard shot from a high-percentage area in the middle of the ice, just below the top of the circles.

Sabres’ 3rd goal: With the Coyotes on the power play, forward Tobias Rider sends an ill-advised pass to Anthony Duclair in the neutral zone just as Duclair is about to reach Sabres defenseman Zemgus Girgensons. Duclair can’t handle the pass cleanly, Girgensons deflects it and Buffalo forward Evander Kane scoops up the loose puck to race in on a breakaway and give Buffalo a 3-1 lead.

Sabres’ 4th goal: On a seemingly harmless play from the side of the net, Buffalo forward Marcus Foligno beats Smith from the goal line because Smith never gets to the post despite having ample time to close off the tiny slice of net Foligno has available. Buffalo eventually adds an empty-net goal.

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