saves to lift the Philadelphia Flyers to a 2-0 victory over the Toronto
Maple Leafs on Tuesday.
Claude Giroux scored on a first-period
power play and Mike Richards scored an empty-net goal for Philadelphia
(40-34-6), which passed Boston and moved into seventh place in the
Eastern Conference with 86 points.
J.S. Giguere made 21 saves for the
Maple Leafs, who finish the season with road games in New York and
Montreal.
Giroux gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead at
10:59 of the first period, just six seconds after Mikhail Grabovski had
been sent off for roughing. The 22-year-old took a nice pass from Danny
Briere and beat Giguere for his 16th goal of the season.
Toronto had several opportunities to
tie it, but was undone by its power play once again. The Leafs
squandered six opportunities with a man advantage to run their
power-play drought to 30 without a goal.
Boucher was solid in earning the 17th
shutout of his career and 100th win of his career, diving across his
crease late in the third period to keep a rolling puck out of the net.
Notes
Brayden Irwin, Jamie Lundmark
and Jeff Finger were scratched for the Maple Leafs. … Oskars Batulis,
Jeff Carter, Riley Cote and Johan Backlund didn't play for Philadelphia.
… Toronto was 7-4-1 on home ice after the Olympic break.