PHOENIX (AP) -- Rick Tocchet broke a third-period tie with a rebound goal, and rookie Robert Esche made 40 saves as the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Anaheim Mighty Ducks 4-2 Saturday night.

	Teppo Numminen gets a first-period score past Anaheim's sprawling goalie Guy Hebert.

Phoenix clinched the season series with its Pacific Division rival, going up 4-1-0 with one game left.

Teppo Numminen had the first goal for Phoenix, and Shane Doan scored short-handed in the second period.

Fredrik Olausson and Paul Kariya scored for Anaheim, Kariya tying it 2-2 in the second.

The Mighty Ducks put a season-high 42 shots on Esche, who might be sent to the minors next week when Sean Burke and Bob Essensa recover from injuries. But he stopped all but two in his best performance in six games (2-4-0).

Guy Hebert of Anaheim had 26 saves, not enough to allow the Ducks to snap a six-game road-winless streak (0-5-1).

Trevor Letowski had two key assists, the second on Tocchet's goal.

He got the puck in the neutral zone when Anaheim's Pascal Trepanier tried to knock down a flying puck with his glove, but muffed it. Letowski skated into the circle and let a shot go. Tocchet crossed in front and knocked the rebound in.

Doan, whose previous best was seven goals during his 1995-96 rookie season, scored his 16th with 9:41 left in the second.

He broke for the other end when Letowski got the puck during a Ducks power play. Letowski passed to Doan, who crossed to his right in the slot, and beat Hebert between the legs for Phoenix's eighth short-handed goal of the season, tying Detroit for tops in the NHL.

It sent the Coyotes into a short-lived 2-1 lead, but Kariya tied it 1:53 later, sweeping in for a fore-hand wrist shot that Esche couldn't stop.

Teemu Selanne, Anaheim's other scoring leader, had an assist on the goal -- his first in five games against the Coyotes. Until Saturday, the Kariya-Selanne attack managed just one point, by Kariya, in the series.