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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- With their minds on two ailing teammates, the Arizona Coyotes pulled out a hard-fought victory Saturday night.Martin Hanzal redirected Alex Goligoskis shot into the net at 1:16 of overtime, giving the Coyotes a 3-2 win over the San Jose Sharks.Arizona players were aware that minor leaguer Craig Cunningham collapsed on the ice Saturday during pregame warmups with the Tucson Roadrunners of the AHL, the organizations top farm club. He was taken to a hospital and the game was postponed.The 26-year-old Cunningham played 10 games for the Coyotes last season.All I can say is as a group in here, were thinking about him and his family, goalie Mike Smith said. Our thoughts and prayers are going out to them.The Coyotes didnt have an update on Cunninghams condition after the game but issued a statement from general manager John Chayka confirming the medical emergency and that Cunningham was receiving treatment at the hospital.Arizona coach Dave Tippett said more would be known on Sunday.The Coyotes also were thinking about injured teammate Brad Richardson, sidelined indefinitely after surgery Friday to repair broken bones in his right leg.Lots of emotion tonight. Its good to finish with a win, Tippett said.Smith stopped 43 shots for Arizona, 18 in the third period. Tobias Rieder and Max Domi also scored for the Coyotes, who ended a four-game skid and played into overtime for the third straight game.Smitty was outstanding and thats why we won, Hanzal said.Smith, who missed 12 games with a lower-body injury before returning earlier in the week, felt well-rested.Its a game that you have to come in sharp and know youre probably going to get a lot of rubber thrown at you, he said. I was hoping it wasnt going to be in the 40s, but it happens.San Jose lost its third in a row despite finishing with a season-high 45 shots on goal.The Sharks cut the Coyotes lead to 2-1 just 41 seconds into the third period on Joe Pavelskis sixth goal of the season, a long, rising shot that was too fast for Smith to turn aside.Tommy Wingels scored off a deflected shot from teammate Matt Nieto at 10:28.Rieder, who missed Thursdays overtime loss at Vancouver due to injury, opened the scoring. He fired in a centering pass from Jordan Martinook at 1:55 of the first period after Martinook chased down the puck.It was Rieders fifth goal of the season and third in his last four games.Arizonas Ryan White and San Joses Michael Haley began exchanging punches off the faceoff right after the goal, with Haley getting in the most vicious hook. Haley leads the Sharks in penalty minutes despite having played in only eight games.The Coyotes mustered just four shots against goalie Martin Jones in the opening period and scored on one of them. Jones made 23 saves.Jones denied a pair of breakaways in the second, but couldnt stop Domis shot that found an opening short side between the post and Jones body at 7:53. Domis second goal and team-leading 13th point of the season came 25 seconds after Arizona went on a power play.The Coyotes were whistled twice for too many men on the ice, but they thwarted all three Sharks power plays.Disappointed, but satisfied with the effort, San Jose coach Peter DeBoer said. We wanted two points and thought we played hard and maybe deserved them, but we didnt get them.Game notes Sharks C Tomas Hertl has a lower-body injury and is being evaluated away from the team. Hertl and C Melker Karlsson (ankle) were scratched. ... Coyotes forward Lawson Crouse is dealing with an upper-body injury and was scratched. ... The Coyotes recalled C Christian Dvorak from Tucson before the game. ... Referee Francois St. Laurent left the game after the first period due to illness. ... 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He had come to grips with the realization that he might never swing a club inside the ropes again.While questioning that career mortality, he started thinking about life after golf.Woods decided he wanted all of his business entities -- the foundation, the course design firm, the restaurant -- under a single umbrella. This shouldnt come as a surprise, nor should it be of great interest to anyone who isnt directly affected by these entities. The decision does, though, shine a light on Woods mindset at the time. It stands as residual proof that he believed he would never fully recover from those surgeries.Now that he is playing again at this weeks Hero World Challenge, Woods finally knows that Phase 2 will also involve a competitive golf schedule.The sponsors are happier than theyve ever been, he explained, because of the cross pollination, better communication has now occurred and here I am competing again.Early last year, when Woods was struggling to chip his golf ball onto the green from merely a few yards away, he tried to explain away this mental block by blaming technical changes in his swing. He contended that he was caught between patterns, which might also be a perfect way to describe his thought process during this current transition.At one point during the news conference, Tiger sounded like the Tiger of old, answering a question about his goals for this weeks return with very much the same response he has been proffering for the past two decades.ddddddddddddIm going to try to do the same thing I always do, he insisted. Im entered in an event. Im going to try to win this thing.Minutes later, when asked how hed measure his success, that hubris was replaced by the Phase 2 edition of Tiger. Its the one who understands hes no longer golfs version of the guy wearing No. 23 for the Bulls.Im playing again, he said. Im sitting here in front of you guys with a different reality, because things have improved so much that Im able to come back here and do this again. It hasnt been easy.We can forgive Woods for being caught between the old pattern and the new one, for maintaining that winning is the main goal while also admitting that just teeing it up again should be considered a victory.Old habits die hard, after all, and it will take some time for him to admit to himself -- and to the rest of us -- that he cant have the same standards. The player who for so many years set the bar to an abnormally high level needs to move it lower than it has ever been.For the time being, at least.Maybe Woods can return to the level where anything less than a win is a disappointment. Maybe the man who a year ago wasnt sure hed ever play again can restore that form. Maybe he can infuse parts of that old version of himself with his next phase, rendering a transition more gradual than he once believed.Maybe being caught between patterns wont have the same result as the last time he employed that phrase.Ive made a lot of different changes in my game, but the mindsets still the same, he explained. Physically and also equipment, practice schedules, training, all that has evolved, [but] the mindset of competing hasnt. That is to go out there and try to beat these guys. I know theyre going to try and beat me. Im going to try and beat them.This wasnt, Hello, world. This was, Im back. Well soon find out what that means for this next phase in Woods career. ' ' '