NHL: Anderson earns 1st shutout of season as Sens blank Rangers

OTTAWA, ON – Craig Anderson is not one to show his emotions, but you could hardly blame the Ottawa Senators goaltender for wanting to celebrate Thursday night.

Anderson raised his arms and pumped his fists after stopping all 27 shots he faced for his first shutout of the season as the Ottawa Senators blanked the New York Rangers 3-0 on Thursday night.

It was Anderson’s 10th win of the season, his first shutout since Dec. 16 and 41st clean sheet of his career.

This marked just the third time this season that the Senators held an opponent to 30 shots or less.

Matt Duchene led Ottawa (11-12-3) with a goal and an assist.

Drake Batherson and Magnus Paajarvi also scored as the Senators won their second game in a row, having beat Philadelphia 4-3 on Tuesday.

Henrik Lundqvist had a rough start, but finished with 31 saves for New York (13-11-2). Lundqvist gave the Senators full credit saying, “they deserved the win” and that the Rangers need to be better on the road as they now drop to 3-7-2.

Rangers head coach David Quinn felt his team got worse rather than better as the game went on after falling behind 2-0 in the first period.

Often overlooked, Boucher credited his fourth line of Paajarvi, Zack Smith and Tom Pyatt for doing an outstanding job against New York’s top line of Chris Kreider, Mika Zibanejad and Ryan Strome.

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With the Senators dominating most of the action Colin White nearly made it 3-0 ringing a shot off the post.

Ottawa did take a 3-0 lead late in the second off an impressive passing display that ended with Duchene scoring his team-leading 12th.

Duchene has eight goals and 14 assists in his last 12 games.

With an assist on Duchene’s goal Ryan Dzingel picked up his 100th career point.

The Senators jumped out to a 2-0 first period lead.

Batherson scored his third of the season off a great pass from Duchene in the second minute of the game, while Paajarvi made it 2-0 with his second of the year and first point in 11 games as he snuck a shot under Lundqvist’s right arm.

On Saturday the Senators will host the San Jose Sharks marking the return of former Ottawa captain Erik Karlsson.