GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Shane Doan became the franchise's all-time leading goal-scorer, and Oliver-Ekman Larsson scored the game-winner with 7:25 left in the Arizona Coyotes' 4-2 victory against the Winnipeg Jets at Gila River Arena on Thursday.
Viktor Tikhonov also scored for the Coyotes (18-16-3), who are in second place in the Pacific Division.
Adam Lowry scored each Winnipeg goal.
Two of Arizona's three third-period goals came on the power play. With Tyler Myers in the box for delivering a punch to Tobias Rieder, Ekman-Larsson used a Doan screen in front to beat Winnipeg goalie Connor Hellebuyck on the stick side.
It was Ekman-Larsson's 10th goal and his fifth game-winner.
Arizona goalie Louis Domingue made 35 saves for his third win in four starts this season. He made big saves on Blake Wheeler in the second and third period and against Drew Stafford in tight in the final minute.
The Coyotes won for the eighth time in their past 12 home games (8-2-2).
Hellebuyck made 17 saves for the Jets (17-18-2), who have lost 12 of their past 13 road games, 11 of them in regulation.
Doan tied the game 1-1 and passed Dale Hawerchuk for the most goals in Winnipeg Jets/Coyotes franchise history with the 380th goal of his NHL career, all with Winnipeg/Arizona, at 9:28 of the first period.
He scored goal No. 381, his 13th of the season and fifth in the past two games into an empty net with 15.7 seconds left
Doan passed Hawerchuk in his 1,422 NHL game, which is 29th on the League's all-time list.
Winnipeg got on the board first with a good second effort.
Domingue made a save on a long shot from Dustin Byfuglien and stopped a rebound try by Alexander Burmistrov. Domingue thought he had the puck pinned under his pad, but play continued, and Lowry whacked the puck free and into the net for his second goal of the season at 3:31.
Almost six minutes later, Nicklas Grossmann sent Doan and Max Domi down the ice 2-on-1 against Byfuglien. Doan passed the puck by a sprawling Byfuglein, but Domi passed up the shot and gave Doan half a net to shoot at in beating Hellebuyck.
"I got it to Max and I thought he should have shot it," Doan told Fox Sports Arizona between periods. "Then he passed it back, and I figured out what he was doing and I figured I'd better bury it."
Doan's record goal tied him with Mikkel Boedker for the Coyotes lead this season. It was his sixth in the past five games and his eighth in his past 10. Doan enjoys playing against Winnipeg: He has four goals and nine points in his past five games and eight goals and 20 points in 22 career games against the second iteration of the Jets.
Doan passed Hawerchuk for the franchise record on the Coyotes' second shot of the game; they had six more over the next 24 minutes. Rieder missed half an empty net with a rebound try just before the first-period buzzer, and they didn't have another good chance until Hellebuyck stopped Rieder in tight with 3:30 left in the second period.
The Jets outshot the Coyotes 29-11 through two periods, but Domingue kept Arizona in the game with a string of steady saves and two strong ones, stopping Wheeler on a shorthanded breakaway with eight minutes left.
But the Jets gave the Coyotes a golden opportunity in the final seconds of the period. Behind the play with the clock winding down, Andrew Ladd put a two-handed crosscheck into Ekman-Larsson's back, giving Arizona a power play to open the third.
Connor Murphy set up Michael Stone for a shot from the point that hit Tikhonov in the slot and dropped at his feet. Tikhonov put a shot off the glove of Hellebuyck and in at 1:18 for his second goal of the season.
A miscue by Domingue allowed Winnipeg to tie it at 7:45. Stopping a dump-in with his glove, Domingue tried to send the puck up the middle of the ice and instead put it on the stick of Lowry in the high slot. Lowry beat Domingue over the glove.
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