Trevor Zegras and Owen Tippett also scored and Travis Sanheim and Matvei Michkov each had two assists to help the Flyers earn their ninth win in 14 games (9-3-2). Samuel Ersson stopped 24 shots.
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Jason Zucker and Bowen Byram scored for the Sabers and Colten Ellis finished with 30 saves. Buffalo snapped a two-game winning streak and lost for the fourth time in 10 games.
The Sabers got on the scoreboard first with a power-play goal by Zucker at 4:08 of the game. Shane Doan sent a pass from behind the net to Zucker in front, and he quickly beat Ersson for his eighth.
The Flyers then took control with three goals in 59 seconds for a 3-1 lead heading into the midway point of the period.
Konecny tied it with a power-play goal on a point shot through traffic at 8:26.
With the Flyers back in the lead after a failed goal challenge, Zegras put them ahead at 9:04 when his pass to Konecny bounced off the skate of Buffalo’s Ryan McLeod and past Ellis. It was Zegras’s tenth.
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Brink capped the burst for a two-goal lead 21 seconds later when he scored from the left side off the rebound of a Cates shot.
Just 5 seconds after another Flyers power play expired, Cates redirected a Brink pass at 1:45 of the second to push the lead to 4-1.
Byram pulled the Sabers within two with 8:12 left in the middle period, but Tippett restored the Flyers’ three-goal lead 55 seconds later.
Next
Sabres: At Winnipeg on Friday in the second of a six-game trip.
Flyers: Host Colorado on Sunday in the third of a six-game homestand.
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