TORONTO -- Phil Kessel did not score, but Marc-Andre Fleury made 21 saves for his second shutout of the season and the Pittsburgh Penguins opened a four-game road trip with a 4-0 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Air Canada Centre on Saturday.
It was the Penguins' (7-4-0) fourth consecutive victory and seventh in their past eight games.
The Maple Leafs (1-7-2) have lost four in a row and are 0-3-1 at home.
The game marked the return to Toronto for Kessel, who was traded to the Penguins on July 1. Kessel led the Maple Leafs in scoring the past six seasons with 181 goals and 395 points in 446 games.
The Penguins opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 13:33 of the first period. With Toronto center Byron Froese off for tripping, Pittsburgh left wing David Perron drove to the net with the puck and took a shot that went between the legs of Maple Leafs goalie Jonathan Bernier. The puck stopped on the goal line and was poked in by Chris Kunitz, who scored his second goal of the season.
Pittsburgh was unable to add to its lead when Toronto forward Rich Clune was penalized five minutes for boarding at 16:02 of the opening period, but did make it 2-0 with a shorthanded goal at 2:34 of the second. With Pascal Dupuis off for slashing, Eric Fehr collected a rebound and put it past Bernier for his first goal of the season. Fehr made his Penguins debut after signing as a free agent in the summer. He missed the first 10 games after having elbow surgery.
Pittsburgh center Matt Cullen extended the lead to 3-0 at 10:29 when he broke in 2-on-1 with Sergei Plotnikov. Cullen skated in on the right wing and put a shot past Bernier for his first of the season.
The Penguins scored again at 4:31 of the third period when Brian Dumoulin's dump-in off the end boards was collected in front of the net by Patric Hornqvist, who beat Bernier for his second goal of the season.
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