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GLENDALE, Ariz. Russell Wilson Jersey . -- Winning the close ones has become a habit for the Phoenix Coyotes. So has winning at home. Antoine Vermette scored the deciding goal in the shootout for the second straight game, and the Coyotes won their fifth in a row, 3-2 over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. Vermette, who gave the Coyotes a victory at San Jose on Saturday, trickled the puck just past the line in the sixth round of this tiebreaker. Henrik Sedin lost control of the puck on his chance after Vermettes goal, and the Coyotes skated off with their third consecutive shootout win. "It was a game of inches," Phoenix coach Dave Tippett said, "you see that puck just slide over the goal line." Radim Vrbata and Shane Doan scored in regulation for the Coyotes, 7-0-1 at home. Dan Hamhuis and Ryan Kesler had goals for Vancouver. Vrbata had the other shootout goal for Phoenix. Alex Burrows was the only one to score in the tiebreaker for the Canucks. The series of close wins bodes well for the Coyotes, Doan said. "You get on a roll and you have confidence in a tight game," he said. "It makes a huge difference. Its a mental thing. The more confident we get, the better off were going to be." Winning at home also is a good sign if Phoenix is to be a contender. "If you look at all the teams that have a chance to win or be playoff teams, they all have a good home record," Tippett said. "So thats something weve talked about as a group, and we have to continue to push that. If we can establish a real good home feel and make this a hard place for teams to come and play, I think that carries over to your road record, too." Vancouver, which had won five of six, took the lead with two goals in the first 4:15 of the second period. Only 25 seconds in, Hamhuis scored with a wrist shot just after a faceoff in the Coyotes zone. The puck sailed to the left of goalie Mike Smith and into the net. The go-ahead goal came on a power play with 15:45 left in the period, a sharp slap shot from a few feet inside the blue line by Kesler for his ninth goal of the season. Phoenix tied it 2-2 with 2:21 left in the period when Doan slammed a one-timer past goalie Robert Luongo on a pass from Keith Yandle. "Thats just a great play by Keith Yandle," Doan said. "Not too many (defencemen) in our league would make that play. Most would just step into that and shoot that. Were fortunate weve got some guys back there that drive our whole offence." Vancouver coach John Tortorella blamed himself for Doans goal. "I tried to stretch my bench, and I shouldnt have," he said. "You can put that on me. I shouldnt have had my fourth line out there." The Coyotes were called for too many men on the ice during a line change in the final minute of the second period, but killed the penalty that stretched into the first minute of the third. The Coyotes took a 1-0 lead just 1:15 into the game when Vrbata tipped in a goal after a deflection of Martin Hanzals shot. Phoenix had two quick chances for more with a pair of early power plays, the first when Sedin drew a penalty for hooking, the second on a slashing call against Kesler. But the Canucks, among the best in the NHL in penalty-killing this season, shut down both opportunities. The Coyotes had a couple of good opportunities during the first power play and none on the second. Smith, who had 48 saves at San Jose, made 31 against Vancouver. Luongo stopped 30 shots. NOTES: Phoenix defenceman Derek Morris left in the first period with a lower body injury. ... All six of Vrbadas goals have come at home. ... Phoenixs Zbynek Michalek played in his 600th NHL game. ... The Coyotes only loss at home was on Oct. 15 in overtime against Ottawa. ... Vancouver opened a four-game trip with stops ahead in San Jose, Los Angeles and Anaheim. Adrian Beltre Texas Rangers Jersey . 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Blackburn hurled his fifth career complete game to even his season record at 4-4, while Span had three hits and drove in a run with an RBI double during a two-run seventh inning that put Minnesota ahead for good. Alexi Casilla had two hits and scored twice while Jason Kubel added two hits and an RBI for the Twins, who beat the Mariners for the seventh time in the past 10 meetings. It felt good out there tonight, said Kubel. I made some plays, the other guys made some plays and we got the win. We didnt score a bunch of runs, but we scored enough to win and thats all that counts. Miguel Olivo hit a game-tying two-run homer in the fourth inning for Seattle, but starter Doug Fister balked in the go-ahead run in the seventh before giving up Spans run-scoring hit. Seattle had a season-best six-game winning streak come to an end. Their guy was throwing really strong tonight, said Seattle shortstop Brendan Ryan, who went 3-for-3 in the game. I mean, all my hits were cheap and for the most part he was pounding the zone and getting us out. Martin Perez Jersey. The Mariners like what they are getting from Erik Bedard as of late and hope that the left-hander can extend his four-start unbeaten streak today. Bedard, who has battled multiple shoulder injuries over the past few seasons, is 2-0 with a 1.33 earned run average over his surge after beginning the season 0-4 with a 7.71 ERA. He posted his longest outing of the season last time out, hurling eight shutout innings in a win over San Diego on Friday. He scattered three hits and two walks while striking out nine. I felt fresh. I just tried not to get too pumped up, said Bedard, who lowered his ERA to a season-low 3.94. The 32-year-old has had limited success in his career when facing the Twins, going 1-5 with a 4.68 ERA in 10 starts. Taking the hill for the Twins will be Brian Duensing, who is winless in his last five appearances. The left-hander is 0-4 with a 7.65 ERA in that span, which includes four starts and one relief outing. Duensing picked up a loss in Arizona on Friday, getting charged with five runs on seven hits over six-plus innings of work. The 28-year-old fell to 2-4 with a 4.98 ERA in nine games this season, all but one of those starts. Duensing will be making his first career start against the Mariners after facing them once before in relief. wholesale jerseys cheap jerseys ' ' '