OTTAWA (AP) — Carey Price made 19 saves for his first shutout in nearly two years and Andrei Kostitsyn scored twice in the Montreal Canadiens’ 3-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.
Price, who has started each of Montreal’s seven games, has five career shutout. It was his first in 90 games since Nov. 11, 2008, when he stopped 28 shots in a 4-0 win over Ottawa.
Kostitsyn opened the scoring in the first and added his second goal of the game late in the second to put Montreal up by three. Benoit Pouliot also scored in the second for the Canadiens, 4-1-1 since losing their season opener in Toronto.
Brian Elliott stopped 31 shots for Ottawa (2-5-1), which won 4-2 in Buffalo one night earlier when captain Daniel Alfredsson reached 1,000 career points with a hat trick. Ottawa’s Jason Spezza missed his second straight game because of a groin injury.
