OTTAWA -- Craig Anderson made 36 saves for his second shutout in a row to help the Ottawa Senators to a 4-0 win against the Philadelphia Flyers at Canadian Tire Centre on Saturday.
It was Anderson's second shutout of the season and the 31st of his NHL career. He made 25 saves in a 3-0 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday.
Mika Zibanejad, Mike Hoffman, Milan Michalek and Kyle Turris scored for the Senators (10-5-5).
Bobby Ryan, who was in the lineup after leaving the Columbus game after a hard hit into the boards, had two assists to extend his career-best point streak to eight games (three goals, seven assists).
The Flyers (6-9-5) have lost three in a row. Last in the NHL in goals per game (1.70), they were shut out for the second straight game and third time in their past six.
Flyers goaltender Steve Mason made 27 saves.
The Senators went 3-0-2 on their five-game homestand to improve to 5-3-4 at Canadian Tire Centre this season.
Hoffman and Michalek each took advantage of some open ice to put the Senators up 3-0 with goals in the second period.
Hoffman finished off a 2-on-1 with Ryan at 1:22 to make it 2-0 after Ryan poked the puck by pinching Philadelphia defenseman Michael Del Zotto. It was his sixth goal.
Michalek made a good play to poke the puck by Flyers defenseman Luke Schenn and earned some room to skate in on Mason. His fourth goal made it 3-0 at 17:25.
The Senators took the lead with 43.5 seconds left in the first period when Zibanejad scored his third goal of the season and his first in 12 games.
Zibanejad started the sequence by winning a faceoff to Mason's left against Flyers center Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and then going to the net. Hoffman passed the puck to defenseman Cody Ceci just inside the blue line, and Zibanejad, positioned just to Mason's right, deflected his shot into the net.
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