The Flyers went into Buffalo on a point streak and looked to be on their way to another victory. An almost perfect first period turned into a nightmare of a second half that saw the Flyers drop this game by a final score of 5-3.
The Basics
First period: 7:40 – Jack Quinn (Mattias Samuelsson, Zach Benson), 8:38 – Noah Cates (Bobby Brink)
Second period: 11:01 – Cam York (Trevor Zegras, Bobby Brink), 16:54 – Tage Thompson (Rasmus Dahlin), 19:30 – Noah Ostlund (Owen Power, Alex Tuch)
Third period: 10:20 – Josh Norris (Zach Benson) (PPG), 14:28 – Travis Konecny (Emil Andrae, Jamie Drysdale) 19:52 – Ryan McLeod (Mattias Samuelsson) (EN)
SOG: 27 (PHI) – 28 (BUF)
Strong start
While the Sabres may have opened the scoring in this one, it’d be unfair to call the Flyers’ start a slow one.