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GLENDALE Derek Grant Jersey Womens , Ariz. (AP) — The Coyotes blew a third-period lead, tied the game with a short-handed goal and then hit the post three times on one power play late in regulation.They watched Roberto Luongo make one spectacular save after another against them, and Darcy Kuemper do the same to the Florida Panthers behind them.One wild game, another gutsy victory for Arizona.Vinnie Hinostroza scored the deciding goal in a shootout, Derek Stepan had two goals and the Coyotes won their fourth straight with a 4-3 victory Tuesday night.“We’ve shown all year that we don’t quit,” said left wing Christian Dvorak, who played his first game of the season after battling injuries. “It was kind of a roller-coaster game, especially there in the third and overtime, but we persevered.”The shootout came after a wild finish to regulation and overtime.Stepan scored Arizona’s 13th short-handed goal of the season to tie it with 6½ minutes left. The Coyotes had a chance to win late in regulation, but hit three posts with the man advantage.The Panthers nearly won in overtime for the second straight night, but Oliver Ekman-Larsson stopped one shot with his skate and Kuemper, who had 24 saves, got his glove up to deflect another while lying on his stomach.Luongo was just as good, denying Alex Galchenyuk on a breakaway, then making a nifty glove save on Stepan seconds later to force the shootout.“It was a gutsy effort coming back again,” Panthers coach Bob Boughner said. “Once you get to overtime and shootout, it’s anybody’s game.”It was all Coyotes in the shootout.Nick Cousins and Galchenyuk both scored, then Kuemper stopped Aleksander Barkov on Florida’s second shot. Hinostroza ended it with some slick stickhandling and a shot that slipped past Luongo to move the Coyotes within two points of the final Western Conference playoff spot.“I liked our game, but I thought we let our foot off a wounded snake,” Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said. “You had some grumpy people after that. But a lot of credit to our guys. They stuck with it.”Arizona had a 2-1 lead heading into the third on goals by Stepan and Ekman-Larsson.Jamie McGinn scored midway through the period on a redirect and Barkov scored his 26th after a nifty move, using his skate to control Troy Brouwer’s pass before beating Kuemper.Stepan tied it Erik Karlsson Jersey Womens , toe-dragging the puck past a sliding Panthers player before wristing a shot past Luongo.Luongo stopped 27 shots in relief of James Reimer, who went off 32 seconds into the second when Arizona’s Josh Archibald was pushed from behind and hit him in the mask with his stick.Luongo made some spectacular saves in regulation and overtime, but the Coyotes scored on all three attempts in the shootout.Mike Hoffman also scored for the Panthers.“We knew after 40 (minutes) we hadn’t played our best hockey,” Florida defenseman Keith Yandle said. “We didn’t dwell on it and just did a good job of putting in our work and having a good third.”NOTES: Florida C Jayce Hawryluk went out early in the first period with a right leg injury after a big hit in the corner by Ilya Lyubushkin and did not return. … Ekman-Larsson tied David Babych for third on Arizona’s career list with 321 points. … Yandle played in his 777th straight game to pass Craig Ramsay for the fifth-longest streak in NHL history. … Dvorak had been sidelined with an upper-body injury and a torn pectoral muscle.UP NEXTFlorida plays at Vegas on Thursday.Arizona hosts Vancouver on Thursday. WASHINGTON (AP) — Devante Smith-Pelly got up from his seat.The Washington Capitals forward had heard the unmistakably racist taunts from fans from inside the penalty box. As a black hockey player, he knew exactly what they meant by yelling, “Basketball, basketball, basketball!”“It’s just ignorant people being ignorant,” Smith-Pelly said.That scene unfolded in Chicago in February, 60 years after Willie O’Ree broke the NHL’s color barrier and paved the way for more minorities to play the sport and reach its highest level. O’Ree is being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday for his pioneering career, and yet incidents like the one Smith-Pelly went through show how much more progress needs to be made, in a league that’s 97 percent white and beyond.“It’s come a long way, but there’s still a lot of things that still need to change,” Edmonton defenseman Darnell Nurse said. “That just comes through minorities as a group working together to try to eliminate those things from this game.”Those things just keep happening.In 2011, Philadelphia forward Wayne Simmonds had a banana thrown at him during a preseason game in London, Ontario.In 2012, then-Washington forward Joel Ward was the subject of racist social media posts after he scored a game-winning playoff goal.In 2014, then-Montreal defenseman P.K. Subban was the subject of racist social media posts after he scored a game-winning playoff goal.In April, Detroit prospect Givani Smith was subjected to threats and racial taunts and messages after a junior game in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. His team had a police escort the next time they went to the rink.“(O’Ree) had to go through a lot, and the same thing has been happening now Patrick Maroon Jersey Womens , which obviously means there’s still a long way to go,” Smith-Pelly said. “If you had pulled a quote from him back then and us now, they’re saying the same thing, so obviously there’s still a long way to go in hockey and in the world if we’re being serious.”Through his work as an NHL diversity ambassador over the past 20 years, O’Ree has tried to work toward more inclusion and better minority representation. He is eager to tell kids at YMCAs, Boys & Girls Clubs and schools that hockey is another sport they can play.USA Hockey and Hockey Canada don’t keep participation statistics by race, though there are fewer than two dozen black players currently on NHL rosters. The NHL celebrates “Hockey is for Everyone” month each season and quickly condemns racist behavior.“A lot of it’s basically on your parents and how people raise their kids,” said San Jose forward Evander Kane, who acknowledged being the subject of racist taunting as the only black player on his minor league teams in Vancouver. “You can have all the awareness that you want, but at the end of the day, it’s really up to the individual and how they act and how they want to treat other people.”O’Ree, 83, still remembers how he was treated in the ’50s as hockey’s Jackie Robinson. He did his best to drown out the noise by listening to his brother Richard.“I heard the jeers and some of the racial remarks, but it kind of went in one ear and out the other,” O’Ree said. “He told me, ‘Willie, names will never hurt you unless you let them.’ He said, ‘If they can’t accept you for the individual that you are, just forget about it and just go out and do what you do best and don’t worry about anything else.'”Nurse said black players still have to worry about racist jeers and remarks.“I had a lot growing up and my brother had the big one too last year,” said Dallas forward Gemel Smith, Givani’s brother. “How we were raised Tyler Bozak Jersey Womens , nothing really bothers me. That stuff doesn’t really get to me and things like that. My dad always taught us just to try to close it out, block it out.”Like Smith-Pelly, Simmonds is quick to say racism isn’t an issue unique to hockey or sports in general. His solution is a zero tolerance policy, which is what happened to the four fans in Chicago who were thrown out and banned from all home games by the Blackhawks.“I think what could be done to keep these types of incidents from happening would probably be to ban those people who are doing those lewd acts,” Simmonds said. “I think if you set a strong example right from the start, you won’t have too many people acting like clowns.”Commissioner Gary Bettman, who is going into the Hall of Fame with O’Ree as part of the class of 2018, considers it important to make clear to fans and players what’s expected and what’s not tolerated and said: “Even if it’s only one incident, it’s one too many.” Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said creating and cultivating an inclusive environment and building diversity are significant league priorities.There has been incremental progress. In the aftermath of Smith-Pelly’s incident, fans in Chicago raised $23,000 to donate to the Fort Dupont Ice Rink in Washington, helping hundreds of children.“When you see the reaction and the way that people rally around moments like that and try to make a positive out of it, I think that’s definitely a step in the right direction,” Nurse said.For some players like Seth Jones, the son of former NBA player Popeye Jones, hockey has been a safe place. The Blue Jackets defenseman said he has so far never been on the receiving end of race-based taunts or messages and said, “I was just like everybody else playing hockey, which is what everyone wants.”Most black players haven’t been that fortunate. And while Jones is optimistic that people can change, Smith-Pelly wasn’t sure exactly how that will happen.“It’s tough,” he said. “I don’t really know a plan to stop it. That’s how people are.”