Pittsburgh Penguins forward Matt Cullen (7) and Toronto Maple Leafs forward Tyler Bozak (R) battle for the puck on Saturday.

By Jonathan Bombulie/The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Many of the 19,000-plus at Air Canada Centre on Saturday were casting a critical eye on Phil Kessel’s every move in his first game against his old team.
Matt Cullen had a tougher audience watching him on TV back home.
“I come home from games and my 7-year-old son is asking me if I’m ever going to score,” Cullen said. “It’s kind of nice to get him off my back.”
While Kessel and fellow all-stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin had relatively quiet nights, Cullen and Eric Fehr scored their first goals in a Penguins uniform and Marc-Andre Fleury made 21 saves in a 4-0 win over the Maple Leafs.
The Penguins have won seven of their past eight.
“I think it was one of our better games,” Fleury said. “From start to finish, our penalty kill, our power play looked good. Our four lines contributed.”
Fehr was making his Penguins debut after offseason elbow surgery. He was touted as a solid penalty killer with a bit of a scoring touch when the Penguins signed him, and he showed those traits on the same play with the Penguins leading 1-0 in the second.
He took off up the left wing short-handed, passed to Cullen driving down the slot, gathered his own rebound, waited out flailing goalie Jonathan Bernier and roofed a shot less than three minutes into the period.
“I think it’s important for guys to step up,” Fehr said. “You can’t rely on the same guys every night. It’s a hard league. There’s tight checking every night against those guys.”
When Cullen signed with the Penguins, he was billed as a player with solid defensive instincts and had more than 600 NHL points to his credit. He added to his reputation in both areas about 10 minutes after Fehr’s goal. He blocked a Martin Marincin shot attempt in the defensive zone, took off up the right wing and scored to give the Penguins a 3-0 lead.
Fehr and Cullen were also part of a penalty-killing effort that stopped three Toronto power plays. The Penguins have killed 11 straight penalties over their past four games.
The power play struck in the first period. David Perron took a shot from the right wing that trickled through Bernier. Chris Kunitz nudged it over the goal line.