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  Wednesday, Nov. 8 10:00pm ET
Coyotes' unbeaten streak ends at 12
 
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Brendan Shanahan went into high gear the moment the puck dropped, and he never lost momentum.

Manny Legace
The Coyotes' Shane Doan can't get the puck past Red Wings goalie Manny Legace.
Shanahan scored a goal and had two assists as the Detroit Red Wings snapped the third-longest unbeaten streak in Phoenix history with a 4-2 victory over the Coyotes on Wednesday night.

"We got to play our style," he said. "If we're going to play, let's play a forceful game, like the style we used to play."

Backup goalie Manny Legace had 26 saves in another strong game for the Red Wings. He is 5-1-0 this season and 9-1-0 since signing with Detroit in the 1999 offseason.

"We had good balance and good contributions," coach Scotty Bowman said. "It was a strange game. We really didn't give them a lot."

The Coyotes went undefeated in 12 straight (7-0-5), but showed signs their momentum was slowing near the end when they went into overtime the last three games.

The 1984-85 Winnipeg Jets went 13 games without a loss, and the 1998-1999 Coyotes set the franchise record at 14.

"They've been sitting there waiting for us when we played last night," coach Bob Francis said. "You knew they'd come out strong. They're a proud team."

Shanahan and Kirk Maltby scored early for Detroit, and Slava Kozlov and Tomas Holmstrom added power-play goals in the third period, with Shanahan assisting on each.

"We played really solid, but their two power-play goals were killers," Phoenix forward Trevor Letowski said.

Keith Tkachuk and Brad May had the Phoenix goals.

But the goaltending, which was a huge part of the Coyotes' streak -- they were outshot 387-253 in the last 12 games -- didn't hold up.

Backup Robert Esche gave up all four goals on 23 shots.

Shanahan scored unassisted 28 seconds into the game, streaking on a diagonal from the left wing before some fans reached their seats.

Maltby made it 2-0 when he took a pass from Sergei Fedorov from the boards and fired from the slot, beating Esche high on the glove side 8:02 into the first period.

Tkachuk was denied a goal with 4:18 left in the first when his shot clanged off the crossbar and the left upright, bounced to the ice and out. Trevor Letowski put the rebound into the net, but the play was whistled dead before Letowski's shot to see if Tkachuk's shot went in.

Officials later determined Tkachuk hit the puck with a high stick.

But Tkachuk converted during a 5-on-3 Phoenix advantage, taking a crossing pass from Jeremy Roenick and beating Legace with a wrist shot from the circle 9:39 into the second period.

The Coyotes, who also trailed Los Angeles 2-0 Tuesday night before skating to a 3-3 tie, caught up 30 seconds into the third period. Wyatt Smith circled behind the net and flipped a pass up to the crease.

Legace stopped a shot by Landon Wilson, but May found a crease in the logjam of players and knocked a rebound into the net.

But Kozlov, waiting on the doorstep for a crossing pass from Martin Lapointe, scored 2:16 later, and the Coyotes couldn't catch up.

"I saw him in the slot, but I kept on looking at Shanahan to throw them off," said Lapointe, who passed up a chance to add to his eight-goal total for a more sure scoring opportunity. "I managed to get it to Kozzy, and he knocked it in."

Game notes
The loss was the Coyotes' first at home (5-1-1), still the best start in franchise history. The 1995-96 Winnipeg Jets were 4-0-2 in their first six home games, but 4-1-2 after seven. ... Legace, 11-10-2 in his career, was 2-9-2 with Los Angeles before he joined the Red Wings. ... The Red Wings have killed 36 of 39 power plays faced in their seven road games.
 


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 Brendan Shanahan takes the puck coast to coast for the goal.
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