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Coyotes hold on to down Wild

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01/16/2010 - Glendale, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Vernon Fiddler had two points, including what turned out to be the game-winning goal, as the Phoenix Coyotes held off a furious rally from the Minnesota Wild and won, 6-4, at Jobing.com Arena.

Fiddler also had an assist, while Petr Prucha scored twice and registered a helper for the Coyotes, who are 3-0 against the Wild this season. Shane Doan tallied a goal and an assist, and Radim Vrbata and Adrian Aucoin also scored in the win. Ed Jovanovski, fresh off a two-game suspension, had four assists, and Ilya Bryzgalov made 18 saves.

Phoenix scored the first three goals of the third period to take a seemingly comfortable 5-1 lead, but Minnesota roared back with three consecutive goals to get to within one. Vrbata's goal with a minute left then sealed the outcome.

Guillaume Latendresse notched his first career hat trick for the Wild, who have dropped two straight after a four-game win streak. Owen Nolan added a goal and an assist, and Martin Havlat had three assists in the loss.

Niklas Backstrom stopped just 27-of-33 shots for Minnesota.

The Wild trailed, 5-1, with 10 minutes to play but scored three goals in the span of 4:07 to get back in the game.

With 9:24 to play, Latendresse tallied with Minnesota on the power play to climb to within three, and another Phoenix penalty moments later led to Nolan's tally with 8:33 left.

Latendresse completed his hat trick with 5:17 to go, scoring his 15th to make it a 5-4 game.

The Coyotes responded, though, as Vrbata iced the game with his 15th goal of the year with a minute remaining to give the hosts some breathing room.

Prucha put Phoenix on the board 7:45 into the game, taking a feed from Martin Hanzal in the slot and beating Backstrom from in close. Doan made it a 2-0 game 2:20 later with his 13th goal of the season.

Both defenses took over from there, and neither team scored again until Latendresse cut Minnesota's deficit in half on a goal with 2:25 left in the second period. Marek Zidlicky came up with an offensive zone turnover and flicked it toward the net; Havlat redirected it to Kyle Brodziak, whose shot was saved by Bryzgalov before Latendresse put the rebound into the net.

Then, in the third, neither team could prevent an offensive outburst, as seven total goals were scored in the frame.

Aucoin extended Phoenix's lead to 3-1 with a power play tally less than two minutes into the period, and Prucha scored with 11:28 remaining in the game for a three-goal margin.

Fiddler then notched a shorthanded goal with 10:10 left to seemingly put the game out of reach at 5-1 before Minnesota began its rally.

Game Notes

Minnesota trailed, 5-1, in the third period of a game against Chicago on January 9 and rallied to win, 6-5, in a shootout...Phoenix improved to 18-7-2 at home, while the Wild lost their fourth straight road game to fall to 8-16-2 this season away from home...Brodziak had two assists for Minnesota, as did Hanzal for Phoenix

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Mayweather picked to beat De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

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"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.

De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.

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De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.

Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.

But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.

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