Philly Leader

The Philadelphia Flyers secured a 5-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday evening at Wells Fargo Center. This win marked one of the more decisive performances for the Flyers this season, improving their record to 8-8-2 after 18 games.

The Flyers took an early lead with a power play goal at 15:57 in the first period. Joel Farabee's shot led to Tyson Foerster scoring his third goal of the season from a rebound, assisted by Anthony Richard and Farabee. Shortly after, Travis Sanheim scored his fifth goal of the season with a slap shot, tying him with Doug Crossman for tenth place on the Flyers' all-time scoring list among defensemen.

The second period saw two more goals from the Flyers, extending their lead to 4-0. Egor Zamula scored his first goal of the season at 2:08, assisted by Richard and Matvei Michkov. Later, Michkov set up Travis Konecny for a breakaway goal at 17:07, which was followed by a skirmish.

Buffalo responded in the third period with Rasmus Dahlin scoring a power play goal at 10:06, assisted by Alex Tuch and Jason Zucker. Ryan McLeod then made it 4-2 with a late goal during a six-on-five attack. The game concluded with Konecny securing an empty-netter at 19:42.

Flyers goaltender Ivan Fedotov stopped 24 out of 26 shots, while Sabres goalie Devin Levi made 27 saves on 31 shots. Erik Johnson reached his Silver Stick milestone by playing his 1,000th NHL regular-season game.

The Flyers went one-for-five on power plays and successfully killed three out of four penalties against them.