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Penguins beat Bruins 30 Fleury finally gets shutout
Matt Cooke survived his evening at the TD Garden.
Marc-Andre Fleurys streak of non-shutouts did not.
Easy to see why the Penguins could not have asked for much more out of their 3-0 victory against Boston Thursday night.
“We lost a tough game [Wednesday] in New Jersey, and our focus was to win the game,” Cooke said.
“And we did it in a pretty convincing fashion, I think.”
Oh, Cooke absorbed a little abuse from the crowd and a bit of punishment in a fight with Bruins enforcer Shawn Thornton, but nothing that did significant damage.
And Fleury hardly had to be at his best — he was forced to stop just 17 shots, barely a periods worth of work some nights — to record his first shutout in 63 games, but that was a detail on which there was no point in dwelling.
Why sweat the small stuff when you have authored not only your first shutout in nearly a year, but your teams first in Boston since Les Binkley did it Jan.
28, 1968?
“It was too long,” Fleury said.
“But Im definitely happy to finally, finally get one.”
