NHL updates Coyotes' regular season schedule after postponements vs. Wild, Avalanche

The Arizona Coyotes had four games on their 2021 schedule postponed earlier this month due to COVID-19 protocol-related matters involving two opponents, the Minnesota Wild and Colorado Avalanche. 

New game dates and times against those teams, which caused some other dates on the schedule to be changed, were made known Tuesday by the NHL. The Coyotes' schedule changes take effect starting next week. 

The team's Feb. 25 game against the Colorado Avalanche was moved to the following day, removing a back-to-back game situation for the Coyotes, who play Anaheim on the 24th. The back-to-back is now on Feb. 26 and 27, both against Colorado.

The Coyotes' previously scheduled game against the Los Angeles Kings in L.A. has been moved up from April 23 to March 3.  A game at Minnesota slated for Feb. 6 that was postponed is now set for March 16. 

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That bumps the originally scheduled March 16 game at Anaheim, which was moved to March 20. 

A Coyotes game at Colorado that wasn't played on Feb. 9 is now scheduled for March 31. The second postponed game against the Avalanche, originally scheduled for Feb. 11, is set for April 12.

The second Arizona at Minnesota game that was postponed, originally scheduled for Feb. 7, is scheduled for April 14.

The current schedule now gives the Coyotes a nine-game road trip from March 31 to mid-April that includes two back-to-back sets.

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