Hoffman scores twice, Anderson stands tall as Senators shutout Wild Mike Hoffman scored twice and Craig Anderson stopped 34 shots to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 3-0 win over the Minnesota Wild Thursday night. Clarke MacArthur also scored for the Senators (7-3-2) as Anderson picked up his second shutout of the season and 28th of his career. Niklas Backstrom made 14 saves in the loss for Minnesota (7-5-0). The Wild have outshot their opponents in all 12 of their games this season, but have lost their past two. Hoffman made it 3-1 at 2:06 of the third period with his second goal of the night in front of 16,867 at Canadian Tire Place. Mark Stone, who extended his point streak (2-3) to five games, found Hoffman all alone and he fired a shot that easily beat Backstrom. Despite just four shots on goal in the second the Senators managed to score on two of them. MacArthur scored his team-leading seventh of the season on the power play at 2:23 to open the scoring. Erik Karlsson found Bobby Ryan down low and he made a quick pass to MacArthur, who beat Backstrom short side from just outside the crease. Just over two minutes later Ottawa made it 2-0 as Backstrom allowed Hoffman's shot to trickle through his pads. The Wild had a number of chances, but Anderson was unbeatable. The Senators goaltender made two huge saves on the same power play, Jason Zucker hit the post on what would have been a sure goal and then Anderson made a glove save on Thomas Vanek. Anderson was just as good in the first period when the Senators were outshot 9-5. Ottawa had two great chances to open the scoring as it had back-to-back power plays, but was unable to register a single shot on goal on either opportunity. Notes: The Senators will be without D Marc Methot (back, indefinite) and D Chris Phillips (lower body, day-to-day). RW Erik Condra and LW Colin Greening were healthy scratches for Ottawa. The Wild were without LW Zach Parise (lower body, day-to-day), LW Matt Cooke (lower body, indefinite), D Jared Spurgeon (shoulder, indefinite), D Keith Ballard (flu, indefinite). D Jonathan Blum was a healthy scratch. RW Justin Fontaine celebrates his 27th birthday Thursday.