The game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabres will take place at Wells Fargo Center on Friday, March 17 at 7:00 PM ET.
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The Philadelphia Flyers will welcome the Buffalo Sabres to Wells Fargo Center for an NHL game on Friday. The Philadelphia Flyers lost 3-5 in their last game over the Knights. The Flyers opened a seven-game homestand and are well out of the playoff race. “I didn’t mind a lot of the game,” Flyers coach John Tortorella said. “The effort is there. We’ve just got to keep on going,”
They played their first game at Wells Fargo Center since they fired general manager Chuck Fletcher on Friday and promoted long-time fan favorite Danny Briere to the interim role. The move that fans had clamored for did little to spark ticket sales — there were scores of empty seats inside the arena. Briere was in Florida for the NHL general managers meetings.
The losses are getting easier to accept for Flyers fans now that Briere has acknowledged the franchise needs a multiyear process to become contenders again. Each defeat this season only pumps their odds for a better pick in the draft lottery. “We’re done. We’re not making the playoffs,” Tortorella said. “But our guys continue to play hard.”
The Buffalo Sabres on the other hand lost 5-4 against the Capitals in their last game. “There was some desperation out there that you typically see in the postseason, some big goals out of our big guys,” said Oshie, who also scored in regulation. “Every game has to kind of be a playoff mentality for us, and there’s no time like playoffs when you’re down goals and able to fuel comebacks.”
It’s still a major uphill climb for Washington to make the playoffs after selling at the trade deadline and dealing with a growing list of injuries. But this win pushed the Capitals within five points of the second and final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference with 12 games to play.
“When you look back at the game, you can see the urgency in our game and just the compete level and just the will — the will to win,” said goaltender Charlie Lindgren, who stopped Alex Tuch and Tage Thompson in the shootout after making 23 saves in regulation and overtime. “For us to come back and win the way we did, this might be the best-feeling win all year.”
Morgan Frost – Brendan Lemieux – Travis Sanheim
Nick Seeler – James van Riemsdyk – Kieffer Bellows
Noah Cates – Tony DeAngelo – Nicolas Deslauriers
Joel Farabee – Tyson Foerster
Kevin Hayes – Tanner Laczynski
Scott Laughton – Ivan Provorov
Rasmus Ristolainen – Felix Sandström
Owen Tippett
Cameron York
Peyton Krebs – Zemgus Girgensons – Tyson Jost
Ilya Lyubushkin – JJ Peterka – Owen Power
Jack Quinn – Riley Stillman – Jacob Bryson
Dylan Cozens – Rasmus Dahlin
Jordan Greenway – Henri Jokiharju
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen – Casey Mittelstadt
Kyle Okposo – Jeff Skinner
Tage Thompson
Alex Tuch
Philadelphia Flyers: Wade Allison, Carter Hart, Travis Konecny, Sean Couturier, Cam Atkinson, Ryan Ellis
Buffalo Sabres: Eric Comrie, Mattias Samuelsson, Ben Bishop
The game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabres will take place at Wells Fargo Center on Friday, March 17 at 7:00 PM ET.
The match between the Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabres will be telecast live on NBC Sports Philadelphia, MSG.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | NBC Sports Philadelphia, MSG. | March 17 (7:00 PM ET) |
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