DENVER -- Rookie Shane Prince scored his first two NHL goals and had an assist, and the Ottawa Senators held on for a 5-3 win against the Colorado Avalanche at Pepsi Center on Wednesday.
Prince's goals came 3:07 apart in the first period to stake goalie Craig Anderson to a 2-0 lead, and the Senators (12-5-5) stretched their winning streak to four games.
The Avalanche (8-13-1) played their first home game since Nov. 6 after completing a seven-game road trip. Their 2-6-1 record at home is the NHL's worst.
Zack Smith, who centered a line with Prince and Chris Neil, fed Prince for his second goal and scored at 18:13 of the second period for a 4-1 lead.
The Avalanche got goals from Gabriel Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon 1:36 apart in the third period to close to within 4-3. Colorado outshot Ottawa 21-4 in the third.
Landeskog deflected in MacKinnon's shot at 10:50 on a 6-on-4 power play with Avalanche goalie Reto Berra on the bench for an extra skater.
MacKinnon scored at 12:26 with a shot from the slot off a pass from Landeskog, who was at the side of the net.
Colorado went on its fifth power play of the game with 5:49 remaining when Ottawa's Marc Methot was penalized for interference, but the Senators killed it off.
Mika Zibanejad sealed the Senators win by scoring a shorthanded empty-net goal with 6.2 seconds to play.
Anderson made 40 saves for his fourth consecutive win. The Avalanche traded him to the Senators for goalie Brian Elliott (now with the St. Louis Blues) on Feb. 18, 2011.
The Senators, who are 5-0-2 in their past seven games, took a 3-1 lead at 1:48 of the second period on Kyle Turris' 11th goal, after which Avalanche coach Patrick Roy replaced starting goalie Semyon Varlamov with Berra.
Turris scored on the Senators' first shot of the period, beating Varlamov from the right hash marks after accepting a centering pass from Mike Hoffman. Varlamov faced 15 shots in all.
Prince, who was Ottawa's second-round pick (No. 61) in the 2011 NHL Draft, was playing in his 15th NHL game. He scored his first goal at 5:54 of the first period after taking a pass from Erik Karlsson. Prince shot from the top of the left circle, and Varlamov thought he covered the puck with his pads, but it trickled across the goal line.
Karlsson extended his scoring streak to eight games, matching his NHL career high. He has five goals and seven assists in the streak.
Prince scored again at 9:01. Smith skated down the right wing, moved to the bottom of the faceoff circle and slid the puck in front. Prince redirected it into the net for a 2-0 lead.
Avalanche rookie center Chris Wagner followed with his first NHL goal at 10:36 when he banked the puck in off Anderson's right leg during a goal-mouth scramble. Wagner was playing in his 25th NHL game, his fifth since the Avalanche claimed him on waivers Nov. 15 from the Anaheim Ducks.
Colorado's Matt Duchene had his scoring streak stopped at seven games.
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