Dar­cy Kuem­per was like vin­tage Patrick Roy on Sat­ur­day, mak­ing 49 saves in suc­cess­ful­ly steer­ing the Ari­zona Coy­otes down a treach­er­ous path at Rogers Place in Edmonton.

Out­shot 31–11 in the sec­ond and third peri­ods, No. 7‑seed Ari­zona used Kuem­per and 27 blocked shots from his team­mates to defeat the No. 2 Avalanche 4–2 in Game 3 of their first-round series at the West­ern Con­fer­ence hub.

The win­ning goal was an emp­ty-net­ter by Tay­lor Hall, who scored late in the third peri­od to seem­ing­ly put the game away. But the Avs got two lucky bounces on the ensu­ing shift to make it 3–2. Anoth­er emp­ty-net goal, this one by Law­son Crouse, sealed Arizona’s vic­to­ry to cut its series deficit to 2–1.

The Coy­otes’ sec­ond goal came off the stick of for­mer Avs for­ward Brad Richard­son, who beat goalie Pavel Fran­couz with a wrist shot late in the sec­ond peri­od. Derek Stepan scored in the first peri­od for the Coy­otes, who took their first lead of the series 6:29 into the game.

Col­orado tied it mid­way through the sec­ond peri­od with a pow­er-play goal by Andre Burakovsky, who scored late in Game 2 to break a 2–2 tie and send the Avs to their sec­ond straight win.

In blocked shots, Ari­zona had 27 of 35.