I'm not going to get involved much - if at all again - with the banged-up, rebuilding Coyotes. But the price and opponent are attractive enough for me to back home 'dog Arizona here.

San Jose has lost eight of its last 10 road games. The Sharks realistically aren't making the playoffs either and they have a poor history at Gila River Arena.

The Coyotes are 4-4 in their last eight home games. Arizona is 4-0-1 the past five times hosting the Sharks holding a plus 11 goal differential in those games.

The teams have met twice this season with the Sharks scoring narrow home victories. San Jose won, 8-7, on Dec. 28 and 4-2 just 10 days ago. Arizona led 2-1 with less than five minutes left in that second matchup, but ended up losing by two goals when the Sharks scored an empty net goal.

So the Coyotes shouldn't lack motivation. The Sharks aren't good enough to look past any opponent. That could happen to them here, however, as they have their own double revenge game meeting the Avalanche on Friday.