Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson will return to the team’s lineup Saturday after taking a leave of absence to be with his wife Nicholle who was undergoing cancer treatments.
Mike Condon, who has made 29 starts this season with many of them consecutive in Anderson’s absence, will back him up on the bench.
It will be Anderson’s first start since Dec. 5. The Senators take on the New York Islanders Saturday afternoon.
Goalie Andrew Hammond was placed on waivers in a corresponding move.
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“This is like a cold water pool,” Senators head coach Guy Boucher said at the morning skate. “You look at it and you want to get in and it’s cold and the longer you wait, it’s still going to be cold when you get in so I think it’s jump in and swim and you’ll remind yourself that you know how to swim pretty good. I think that’s where it is for Craig. Expectations are not that he’s coming in to save us and get us a shutout. Expectations right now are be yourself.
“It’s great to have him back. It’s exciting and what’s going to happen is going to happen. Hopefully things work out for him right off the bat.”
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