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OTTAWA — The biggest victory of the season for Craig Anderson and his family came off the ice.

Only hours before the Ottawa Senators saw their season come to a finish Thursday night with a 3-2 double-overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the East final, the team’s top goalie received word from his wife Nicholle that her cancer is in remission. The news came after extensive testing near the couple’s home in Coral Springs, Fla.

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Nicholle learned in October she had a rare form of throat cancer, has been undergoing treatment since and the whole hockey world has been cheering for her.

“I found out the morning of the game,” Anderson said Saturday as the Senators cleaned out their lockers at Canadian Tire Centre. “She didn’t want to tell me. She had the scan Wednesday, the MRI Thursday and then after the morning skate I knew.

“But she didn’t want to tell me either way.”

That’s because Nicholle wanted Anderson to be able to focus on the biggest game of his career and was also being cautious in waiting for the results of an MRI.