At 16:50, Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin boarded Zegras behind the net. The play was reviewed for a major penalty and game misconduct. Dahlin was thrown out of the game for the late and excessive hit.

The Flyers took 1:50 of carryover power play time into the first period.

Shots: Flyers 12 (23 overall) – Sabres 14 (18 overall)
Faceoffs; Flyers 13 (20 overall) – Sabres 8 (18 overall)

Notable:

The offense kept coming for Philly but the play got sloppy at times. Once again, despite the shot totals for the game, Ersson had to work for saves.
Through two periods, Couturier was 12-for-16 on faceoffs

THIRD PERIOD SYNOPSIS

Cam York did not return for the third period. His last shift came on the shift in which Dahlin boarded Zegras.

The Flyers did not score in the remaining time in the Dahlin major. At 2:46, Sanheim was sent off on a holding minor behind the net. The Flyers killed it off, but Michkov took a tripping minor in the defensive zone at 6:21.

Buffalo thought they cut the deficit to 5-3 at 12:51. From near the net, Thompson scored. The Flyers challenged the play for an offside and the goal was disallowed.

Shots: Flyers 12 (35 overall) – Sabres 8 (26 overall)
Faceoffs; Flyers 11 (31 overall) – Sabres 7 (25 overall)

FLYERS STARTING LINEUP

Trevor Zegras- Christian Dvorak – Travis Konecny
Matvei Michkov – Sean Couturier – Owen Tippett
Nikita Grebenkin – Noah Cates – Bobby Brink
Nicolas Deslauriers – Rodrigo Abols – Garnet Hathaway

Cam York – Travis Sanheim
Emil Andrae – Jamie Drysdale
Nick Seeler – Egor Zamula

Samul Ersson
[Dan Vladar]

POSTGAME RAV4 (RAV4 THINGS REVISITED)

1. Reset the process

Entering this game, the Flyers needed to correct various issues that contributed to Monday’s 5-1 loss to Pittsburgh: special teams, puck management, opportunity reads, opposing chance suppression, goalie rebound control, etc.

Wednesday’s game wasn’t spotless for the Flyers but it was clearly a big improvement in emphatically avoiding back-to-back losses.

2. Scoring by committee.

With Tyson Foerster out for two to three months with an upper body injury, it became even more crucial for the Flyers to get offensive contributions from around the lineup. On Wednesday, Philly did that in spades.

3. Opportunity for Grebenkin

Nikita Grebenkin moved up from fourth-line left wing into the top nine group at 5-on-5. Against the Sabres, Grebenkin had four hits and an assist.

4. Fourth-line left winger Deslauriers

Rick Tocchet elected to go with rugged veteran winger Nicolas Deslauriers over Carl Grundstrom for this game. On Wednesday, “DLo” had five hits and two shots on goal.