In a Saturday matinee, the Philadelphia Flyers lost their 11th straight game, 6-3, to the Sabres. 
The Sabres scored four times in the opening stanza to put the Flyers on their heels.
“Lose 10 in a row, you come into Buffalo and you lay a goose egg, it’s embarrassing,” Philadelphia’s Scott Laughton said. “It’s tough right now. We need to find a way, and the only guys who are going to get us out of it are the players. We’ve got to come to work tomorrow, have a good practice and be ready. There’s not much else to say. We’ve got to get ourselves out of this. It’s not acceptable at this level.”
Michael Houser made 30 saves in the Buffalo win.
Buffalo benefited from three skater pitting two goals each in the win.
Peyton Krebs, Tage Thompson, and Jeff Skinner each hit for doubles in the win.
“I think in the past games we’ve let leads slip in the third, and that’s something we’ve been working to correct,” Thompson said. “Now we’re just trying to shake it off and keep pressing forward, and I think that we did a good job with that, going into the third with the lead and getting the win.”
The Sabres improved to 13-21-7).
“We score what seemed like an early goal and then all of a sudden we fall down 2-1,” Sabres head coach Don Granato said. “But our bench, I loved the talk on the bench at that point. They were a little ticked off and wanted more. And they got more. It was nice to see that. We get an early goal. We really blow it, fall down 2-1, and they responded well.”
Claude Giroux struck twice for the Flyers.
“I think we’re all in this together,” Giroux said. “Right now, it feels like we’re hitting rock bottom and it just feels like we can’t catch a break. We do a lot of good things out there, but when something bad happens, it’s really bad.”
The Flyers fell to 13-20-8.
“I think that definitely gives you a little boost, for sure,” Krebs said after his 20th NHL game. “That’s exciting. I dream of that as a kid and I want to go do it again and again. So, yeah, that was kind of just my mentality.”
Rasmus Ristolainen added a single marker in the loss.
“Right from the drop of the puck, we certainly didn’t have the battle level that we need,” Flyers coach Mike Yeo said. “The focus as far as defending, giving up, I don’t want to say easy chances, but certainly not preventing opportunities against that are very preventable. So we weren’t ready to go, obviously. And that falls on me. But for whatever reason we weren’t prepared to play the game the correct way. So again, it’s disappointing.”
Martin Jones got the start and yielded four goals and made four saves.
Carter Hart iced the crease with two minutes left in the opening frame, made 14 saves.
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