Craig Anderson made his first start in 69 days and turned aside 33 shots as the Ottawa Senators beat the visiting New York Islanders, 3-0, on Saturday.

Anderson left the club in early December to be with his wife, Nicholle, who is battling cancer, and returned to practice last week.

The shutout was the fourth of the season for Anderson in just 20 games and eighth of the season for the Senators. Mike Condon has the other four. The win is the second straight for the Senators.

Mark Stone, Zack Smith, and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored for the Senators (29-18-6), who now have six goals in their past two games after being outscored, 10-0, in the two previous games.

Thomas Greiss made 21 saves for the Islanders (24-19-10) in his eighth start in the past nine games.

It was just the second regulation loss for the Islanders in their past 12 games.

Rangers 4, Avalanche 2 — Henrik Lund­qvist made 32 saves for his 400th career win and host New York earned its fifth consecutive victory. Lundqvist is the 12th goaltender in NHL history with at least 400 wins and the first European-born goaltender to reach the mark.

Lundqvist also is the third goaltender to get 400 wins with one franchise. The others are Martin Brodeur (Devils) and Tony Esposito (Blackhawks).

Lundqvist is 8-1 in his past nine appearances.

Defenseman Kevin Klein had two goals and Rick Nash had the go-ahead score for the Rangers, who swept their season-long four-game homestand and have won eight of 10 overall. Kevin Hayes added an empty-net goal to clinch it.

Gabriel Landeskog and John Mitchell scored and Calvin Pickard made 26 saves for Colorado, which has the fewest wins in the NHL with 15.

Flyers 2, Sharks 1 — Wayne Simmonds scored on a breakaway just over a minute into overtime and Michal Neuvirth made 23 saves, helping host Philadelphia end a three-game losing streak.

Ivan Provorov scored in regulation for Philadelphia.

Patrick Marleau had the goal for Pacific Division-leading San Jose, which lost its fourth straight game and fifth in the last seven.

Three of the Sharks’ losses during the losing skid have been after regulation.

Simmonds capitalized on a turnover at center ice by Brent Burns and beat Aaron Dell with a shot that went off Dell’s left pad and over the line. The goal was confirmed after a video review.

Stars 5, Hurricanes 2 — Patrick Eaves scored two goals for host Dallas. Eaves’s first goal was one of three in the first 6:11 against Carolina goalie Cam Ward. In the second period, Eaves scored his career-high 21st goal, his 11th on the power play this season.

Esa Lindell and Curtis McKenzie added unassisted goals in the first period. Adam Cracknell scored in the third.

Sebastian Aho scored Carolina’s first goal in the second period, and Justin Faulk put in a rebound on the power play in the third.

Ward and Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen each made 22 saves.

The Stars ended a four-game losing streak, their longest this season.

Carolina has lost two in a row.

Jamie Benn had two assists for the Stars. McKenzie assisted on Cracknell’s goal for his first two-point game of his career.

Coyotes 4, Penguins 3 — Connor Murphy’s first goal of the season came with 21.8 seconds left in overtime, giving host Arizona a win over Pittsburgh.

Murphy’s winner came after the Penguins overcame a 3-1 deficit inside of 5½ minutes left to play in regulation. Josh Archibald’s shorthanded goal at 14:38 made it 3-2, and Phil Kessel put in a deflected shot from Kris Letang with 14.2 seconds to play to force overtime.

Martin Hanzal scored twice and Tobias Rieder added another goal for Arizona.

The Coyotes had to survive a two-goal night from Archibald, who was called up from the AHL on Friday. Archibald’s late goal came on an error in stickhandling near the net by Coyotes goalie Mike Smith. The Penguins had an extra attacker on the ice for the tying goal.

Panthers 7, Predators 4 — In Nashville, Nick Bjugstad and Vincent Trocheck scored 29 seconds apart in the second period, and Florida beat the Predators.

Jaromir Jagr also scored for the 1,899th point of his NHL career as the Panthers kicked off a five-game trip by scoring four goals in the second.

Trocheck finished with two goals and an assist, Jonathan Huberdeau added a goal and two assists, and Jussi Jokinen had a goal and an assist to help Florida sweep the season series against Nashville.

Nashville’s Pekka Rinne gave up four goals on 16 shots, including three on six shots in the second period, before being pulled. Juuse Saros quickly gave up a power-play goal to Aleksander Barkov, who capped the four-goal flurry for the Panthers before midway through the period.

Viktor Arvidsson had his first career hat trick for Nashville.

Capitals 6, Ducks 4 — Rookie Zach Sanford scored his first NHL goal to break a tie late in the third period and host Washington beat Anaheim despite giving back a three-goal lead.

Nicklas Backstrom had a goal and two assists, and T.J. Oshie, Daniel Winnik and Marcus Johansson had a goal and an assist each for the Capitals. Washington won its 12th straight at home entering its bye week.

Braden Holtby made 18 saves to win his 14th consecutive start, and Washington tied an NHL record by scoring five or more goals in an 11th straight home game.

Sabres 3, Maples Leafs 1 — Evander Kane scored twice in the first period, Sam Reinhart added a goal, and Jack Eichel had three assists as Buffalo dispatched host Toronto.

Blues 4, Canadiens 2 — Patrik Berglund scored his first career hat trick as visiting St. Louis pushed its winning streak to four games.

Lightning 4, Jets 1 — Brayden Point, Ondrej Palat, and Victor Hedman each had a goal and an assist for visiting Tampa Bay. Brian Boyle also scored for the Lightning.

Blue Jackets 2, Red Wings 1 — Cam Atkinson scored the go-ahead goal, his team-leading 27th of the season, in the second period, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 35 shots, and host Columbus beat Detroit.

Boone Jenner also scored and Brandon Dubinsky had two assists for Columbus.

Thomas Vanek scored for the Red Wings, but Detroit dropped its third straight game and lost to the Blue Jackets for the second time in four days. That despite the efforts of Peter Mrazek, who had 37 saves.

This was Detroit’s first game since owner Mike Ilitch died Friday. He was 87.