. I think theres great respect there from players to him.Snyder has the Wildcats competing. Kansas State has the No. 1 scoring defense, total defense and rushing defense in the Big 12.Theyre really sound, Oklahoma offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley said. They play t

DENVER -- Jordan Martinook knew the best way to keep a struggling team down was to pounce quickly.Martinook certainly worked fast on Tuesday night, scoring 28 seconds into the first period and 11 seconds into the third to help the Coyotes beat the slumping Colorado Avalanche 4-2.It definitely deflates them a little bit and gives us a boost to start those two periods, Martinook said. Whenever you can score two its pretty nice, especially in the NHL.Max Domi had a goal and two assists and Anthony DeAngelo added another goal in his NHL debut for the Coyotes, who improved to 2-6 on the road. Radim Vrbata had two assists and Louis Domingue stopped 25 shots.Arizona won for the third time in four games after opening the season 2-6.This is a good young group of guys and we have a good mix of older guys, too, said DeAngelo, recalled Monday from the American Hockey League. Its just a matter of time until it turns around a little bit, so hopefully right now thats the way its trending.Also trending: Colorados struggles.Rene Bourque and Nathan MacKinnon scored in the first 6:09 of the second for the Avalanche, who lost for the fourth time in five games. Calvin Pickard started in place of struggling goalie Semyon Varlamov and made 21 saves while dropping to 3-1 this season.Colorado has scored just four times in its last four games.Right now when were making mistakes, teams are capitalizing on them, Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. You hope that your team starts to understand the mistakes that were making, and then you get a little better at it and you can show more positive than negative.The Coyotes took the lead for good on goals by DeAngelo and Domi in a 71-second span late in the second period.Anthony Duclair handed the puck to Domi, who circled around the net and fed DeAngelo for the tying goal with 3:45 left in the period. Domi scored on a chance that deflected off Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson and fluttered into the net.Martinook added to the lead with a power-play goal in the third.I have to be better for my team, Pickard said. I put my team behind the 8-ball quick, 30 seconds in.Arizona lost to Colorado 3-2 on Oct. 29.REMEMBERING MAREKBefore the game, the Avalanche held a moment of silence followed by a video tribute for former player Marek Svatos, who died Saturday at his Lone Tree home at age 34.Svatos played for Colorado from 2003-10 before ending his NHL career with the Nashville Predators and Ottawa Senators in 2010-11. He had 100 goals and 172 points in 344 NHL games.Game notes Avalanche RW Jarome Iginla appeared in his 1,486th game and moved within one of tying Wayne Gretzky for 18th place on the career list. ... Coyotes C Martin Hanzal (lower-body injury) and D Michael Stone (upper-body injury) are on injured reserve. RW Tobias Rieder returned to the lineup. ... 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American Matt Kuchar, ahead by two strokes with four to play and even with Scott with one to go, double-bogeyed the 18th after taking two shots to get out of a bunker. Adam Ottavino Jersey . Paul Pierce couldnt believe he missed at the end. Young scored a season-high 26 points to spark a huge effort from the leagues most productive bench, and Los Angeles beat the Brooklyn Nets 99-94 on Wednesday night after blowing a 27-point lead. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops would be just fine if he didnt have to face one of his most respected mentors, Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, each year.No, I dont enjoy coaching against coach Snyders teams, Stoops said emphatically. Theyre too good all the time.Oklahoma (3-2, 2-0 Big 12), ranked No. 19 , faces Kansas State (3-2, 1-1) on Saturday, and as often has been the case, the winner will be well positioned early in the conference race.Stoops and Snyder go back to the late 1970s. Stoops played at Iowa when Snyder was offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under coach Hayden Fry. Stoops joined Iowas coaching staff as a graduate assistant while Snyder was still there.Stoops was an assistant coach on Snyders first seven Kansas State teams from 1989 to 1995, when they helped the program emerge as a powerhouse.Ive got great admiration and respect for coach, and I loved my time there, Stoops said of Snyder. I say it all the time -- those were a great seven years I was there, and learned a ton being there from the ground up.Snyder returns the respect for the Oklahoma program.Theyre a good football team, always have been, and better than good, he said.Both have continued to excel since Stoops left Kansas State to become defensive coordinator at Florida, then took the job at Oklahoma in 1999. They rank first and second among active FBS coaches in career wins at their current schools. Snyder, in his 25th year, has 196 wins at Kansas State. Stoops, in his 18th season at Oklahoma, has 182 victories. They have combined for 11 Big 12 championships in the leagues first 20 years -- Stoops has nine and Snyder two.Stoops said Snyder has remained successful at age 77 because he still connects with the people around him.He does a good job relating with his players, with his coaches, his coaches relate with the pplayers, Stoops said.dddddddddddd All of it together. I think theres great respect there from players to him.Snyder has the Wildcats competing. Kansas State has the No. 1 scoring defense, total defense and rushing defense in the Big 12.Theyre really sound, Oklahoma offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley said. They play their gaps so well. Its a four-man front. I think Coach Snyder will do that until the day hes done. Its incredible. They know what theyre doing. They know what their holes are. They know how to cover them up. They just dont beat themselves.Snyder said this years Oklahoma team is formidable, despite its early losses to Houston and Ohio State.They had some injuries that tempered that a little bit, but theyve come through that quite well, he said. The replacements -- you watch them on videotape, and they are very fine players and good athletes. Bobby would probably temper that thought. Yes, they have gotten better, and if there are any exceptions to that statement, they are probably injury based.Stoops has a 9-3 record against Snyder, but Kansas State has won the past two games in Norman -- 24-19 in 2012 and 31-30 in 2014. And Snyder was responsible for one of the most stunning losses in recent Oklahoma history, when the Wildcats beat the top-ranked Sooners 35-7 in the 2003 Big 12 championship game.Last year, the Sooners outgained Kansas State 568 yards to 110 in a 55-0 win at Kansas State. The Sooners seemed eager to push that game into the rear-view mirror.Theyre a sound team, Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield said. Theyre well coached. They always are. Theyre definitely a lot better than they were last year.---Follow Cliff Brunt on Twitter (at)CliffBruntAP ' ' '