Travis Konecny collected two goals and an assist as the Philadelphia Flyers skated to a 5-2 victory over the visiting Buffalo Sabres on Saturday.
Travis Sanheim and Egor Zamula each had a goal and an assist and Ivan Fedotov made 23 saves for Philadelphia, which improved to 4-0-1 in its past five games. Anthony Richard and Matvei Michkov both chipped in a pair of assists for the Flyers.
Rasmus Dahlin and Ryan McLeod scored for Buffalo, which had won four of its past five games. Sabres goaltender Devon Levi made 27 saves.
Tyson Foerster opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 13:57 of the first period for Philadelphia. Joel Farabee put a shot on net from the left point and Levi made the save but couldn’t corral the rebound, and Foerster poked it in amid a scramble in front of the net.
Just over two minutes later, Sanheim made it 2-0 with a blast from the top of the right circle. The Philadelphia defenseman has two goals and three assists in his past two games.
The Flyers scored early and late in the second period to expand their lead to 4-0.
The first tally of the stanza came when Zamula’s shot from the left point caromed off a defender and went into the net.
Then toward the end of the session, Konecny scored his team-high 10th goal of the season. With the teams skating four-on-four, Sanheim found Michkov behind the defense for a breakaway. Michkov noticed Konecny trailing the play, deked Levi with a shot fake and then slipped the puck at the last second to Konecny, who rammed it home.
Dahlin got Buffalo on the board with 9:54 remaining in the third period with a power-play goal on a spicy blast from the blue line that got past Fedotov.
McLeod poked home a loose puck with 1:05 left to make things interesting before Konecny’s empty-netter sealed the deal.
–Field Level Media