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Mar 29, 2025 4:00 pm

Matvei Michkov scores two as Flyers take care of Sabres

Matvei Michkov

Matvei Michkov scored twice to help the Philadelphia Flyers to a 7-4 win against the visiting Buffalo Sabres on Saturday.

Owen Tippett, Ryan Poehling and Tyson Foerster each had a goal and an assist, Noah Cates had a goal and two assists, and Travis Konecny had two assists for the Flyers (30-36-9, 69 points), who have won their first two games under interim coach Brad Shaw. Samuel Ersson made 17 saves.

Jack Quinn had two goals and an assist, JJ Peterka had a goal and an assist, Ryan McLeod had three assists, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 25 for the Sabres (30-36-6, 66 points).

Michkov gave Philadelphia a 1-0 lead at 5:27 of the first period, carrying the puck to the right circle before beating Luukkonen glove side.

Jakob Pelletier made it a 2-0 lead just 29 seconds later. Tippett went around Buffalo defenseman Jacob Bryson and centered a feed for Pelletier, who fired a quick wrist shot at 5:56.

Quinn cut the deficit in half at 10:57. Peterka won a battle along the wall and sent a backhand to Quinn in the slot, who snapped it five-hole on Ersson.

Peterka tied it 2-2 at 1:41 of the second period when Quinn found him uncovered on the back door.

Quinn put Buffalo in front 3-2 on the power play at 8:13, snapping a shot through the legs of Flyers defenseman Cam York that beat Ersson blocker side.

Michkov tied it 3-3 at 10:36, taking a short pass from Konecny for a breakaway and roofing a backhand over Luukkonen’s glove.

Cates then made it 4-3 Philadelphia at 14:11, wiring a wrist shot off a feed from Foerster past Luukkonen on the blocker side.

Tippett’s one-timer from above the left circle on the power play pushed it to 5-3 at 6:39 of the third period.

Foerster extended it to 6-3 at 10:13 with a slap shot from above the slot that went stick side.

Alex Tuch’s short-handed snap shot from the slot went over Ersson’s blocker to narrow it to 6-4 at 15:05.

But Poehling increased the lead to 7-4 from the doorstep glove side on the power play at 15:34.

–Field Level Media

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