{"id":54531,"date":"2017-12-14T06:21:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T06:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=54531"},"modified":"2017-12-14T06:21:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T06:21:25","slug":"craig-anderson-senators-beat-rangers-stop-skids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/nhl\/craig-anderson-senators-beat-rangers-stop-skids.html","title":{"rendered":"Craig Anderson, Senators beat Rangers, stop skids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Anderson, Senators beat Rangers, stop skids<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Craig Anderson and the Ottawa Senators are happy to be home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anderson made 27 saves to stop his seven-game losing streak and Ottawa ended its five-game skid Wednesday night with a 3-2 win against the New York Rangers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Ryan, Cody Ceci and Zack Smith scored for the Senators (10-13-7), who returned from a seven-game road trip and improved to 2-10-2 in their past 14 overall. It was only their second victory in regulation since Nov. 11, which was the last time Anderson had won.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think when that final buzzer went there was a sigh from a lot of people, fans included,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt was a good feeling. They\u2019re a good team over there with a good goaltender so it was a big confidence boost for us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Grabner and Pavel Buchnevich scored for the Rangers (16-12-3), who dropped to 4-7-0 on the road. Henrik Lundqvist had 27 saves, becoming the 15th goalie in NHL history to reach 20,000 for his career.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ottawa, which eliminated the Rangers in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs last season, was coming off a 3-2 loss at the last-place Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels good to win,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cAfter what we went through, I think coming home and putting on the effort we did and getting the results we wanted, it\u2019s a good feeling in here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For the first time since Dec. 1, the Senators scored first and played the entire game with a lead. It clearly made a difference.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of those games that were just as good, but just didn\u2019t turn for us,\u201d coach Guy Boucher said. \u201cBack at home, for the first time in a long while, you could feel the freshness, what you should feel at home, and because of that our players got the energy and we got the first goal and I thought we defended great. I thought our goalie was outstanding and all our lines were good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Senators took a 3-1 lead eight seconds into the third period as Tom Pyatt, from behind the net, found Smith in front to score his second of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rangers trimmed the deficit back to one 4\u00bd minutes later as Buchnevich scored his 11th, beating Anderson with a one-timer. Chris Kreider picked up his 200th career point on the play.<\/span><\/p>\n

New York pulled Lundqvist with just more than a minute remaining, but the Senators were able to hold on.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe needed something,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cWe were at the point where moral victories weren\u2019t really adding up for us, so we needed to find a way to get two points and you hope that this becomes a stepping point.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ottawa regained the lead late in the second after Matt Duchene showed some great patience before finding Ceci wide open for his second goal in two games.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s five games in a row where Duchene is really good,\u201d Boucher said. \u201cYou can really see him picking it up and feeling it and the guys getting to know him, too, so that\u2019s the chemistry you have to build.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rangers tied it 1-all at 3:57 of the second due in large part to some poor defensive coverage by Erik Karlsson. Mats Zuccarello was able to find Grabner, who got in behind Karlsson and beat Anderson from in close.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan opened the scoring early in the first period when he took a pass from Mark Stone and beat Lundqvist with a one-timer for his second of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/2017\/12\/13\/anderson-senators-stop-skids-with-3-2-win-over-rangers\/108590038\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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