Marc-Andre Fleury threw his glove in front of his face on the bench Tuesday but he couldn’t hide his sheepish grin.
The goaltender knew scraping snow in front of his net against the Winnipeg Jets wasn’t allowed, but he wanted to try something once he was pulled with his team trailing 2-1 with 2:23 to go.
“I didn’t want to laugh because we were down, obviously. We still had a lot of time,” Fleury said. “(I’ve) never done that. I don’t know why. I was going to the bench and it was a close game.”
Fleury dragged his stick near the crease to put up a tiny snow wall before heading to the bench, thinking maybe he could cause a deflection if the Jets threw a slow shot on the empty net.