Arizona @ Florida preview

Last Meeting ( Mar 21, 2019 ) Arizona 2, Florida 4

The Arizona Coyotes, packed with a three-game winning streak and an uncertain goaltending situation, begin a three-game southeast trip Tuesday against the Florida Panthers. Darcy Kuemper (lower body) hasn't played since Dec. 19 and Antti Raanta (lower body) pulled himself from Saturday's 6-2 victory over Philadelphia after two periods with a 4-0 lead because "he felt something," so Adin Hill could make his first start of the season.

Ivan Prosvetov, who has never played in the NHL, was called up after being pulled from his game with AHL Tucson on Saturday and will likely serve as Hill's backup. Arizona is 4-3-0 without Kuemper, who was a Vezina contender at the time of his injury, and is two points behind first-place Vegas in the crowded Pacific Division as the top five teams are separated by five points. Florida has won seven of its last 10 games after completing a 2-2-0 trip with a 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday and sits in a wild-card playoff position in the Eastern Conference. "(Sunday) is something to build off of,'' Panthers coach Joel Quenneville told the media while Florida's Vincent Trocheck, a Pittsburgh native, said after playing his 400th game: “It was good that we played a full 60 minutes. It’s been an issue of ours, coming out flat when we have the lead. (Sunday) we played as well in the third as we did in the first and second.”

TIME: 7 p.m. ET. TV: FS Arizona Plus, FS Florida

ABOUT THE COYOTES (24-16-4): Nick Schmaltz leads the team with 35 points and a plus-9 rating after recording five points with a plus-3 in his last four games. Clayton Keller (12 goals) scored twice Saturday, giving him three two-goal games in his last 11 contests. Hill is 8-8-0 with a 2.89 goals-against average and .901 save percentage in 19 career games (15 starts) after stopping 10-of-12 shots in the third period Saturday in his second relief appearance of the season.

ABOUT THE PANTHERS (22-15-5): Evgenii Dadonov has scored four of his team-high 18 goals in the last three games and boasts eight of his 34 points in the past six contests. Jonathan Huberdeau recorded 20 of his team-high 57 points in the last 10 games, scoring six of his 17 goals during that span. Brett Connolly (16 goals) scored Sunday for only the second time in 13 games.

OVERTIME

1. Arizona is tied for the third-most road wins in the league at 13-6-3.

2. Florida C Aleksander Barkov (45 points) has been kept off the scoresheet in four straight games.

3. The Coyotes are 12-for-12 on the penalty kill over the last four contests and haven't allowed a power-play goal in nine of their past 10 games, improving the unit to fifth in the league entering Monday.

PREDICTION: Panthers 3, Coyotes 2