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ANDERS NILSSON HÖLL NOLLAN I DEBUTEN FÖR CANUCKS!

Från NHL.com:

Nilsson, Canucks shut out Senators
Goalie makes 32 saves to hand Ottawa first regulation loss

OTTAWA -- Anders Nilsson made 32 saves in his first game with the Vancouver Canucks, helping them to a 3-0 win against the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Tuesday.

Brock Boeser, Alexander Burmistrov and Thomas Vanek scored for the Canucks (2-2-1), who had lost three in a row.

Craig Anderson made 21 saves for the Senators (3-1-2), who had won three straight and lost in regulation for the first time this season.

Nilsson, 27, signed a two-year, $5 million contract as an unrestricted free agent on July 1. The shutout was the third of his NHL career.

"You're always going out there and try to have a shutout, of course it's a nice bonus, but the most important thing and the thing we need right now is two points," Nilsson said. "That's almost a nicer feeling.

"I felt good all night. Ottawa came out and pushed us back in the first period, so I got to make some saves early and get into the game right away. In the second and third I thought we took over the game and we were the better team."

Their goalie played outstanding. He's a big man. We knew that he was probably going to stop all of our first shots because of his size. We knew we had to work hard around him to get secondary chances and third chances. We didn't do enough of that, that's for sure." -- Senators coach Guy Boucher

På NHLs Forum HF boards finner man att matchtråden döpts om till "Game 5: Nucks 3 @ Sens 0 | Can't live if living is without Nilsson" och man kan lugnt säga att han direkt tog en fin plats hos supportrarna. Visst kommer det att gå upp och ner framöver men det var viktigt att han fick en fin start och även om Markan har mer tjing på förstaspaden kan det bli mer fördelat framöver efter Anders fina start. Det här var ju starten på fem matchers roadtrip där det senare i veckan ingår två matcher på två dagar och där den ena är mot Anders förra lag Buffalo. Ska vi tippa att Anders får spaden när han kommer "hem" till Buffalo och får möta sin kompis Robin Lehner kanske?

VILKEN HÄRLIG MORGON!

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