{"id":311527,"date":"2026-10-22T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311527\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T03:38:08","slug":"rookie-cole-knuble-pots-1st-2-nhl-goals-to-help-flyers-beat-sabres-for-3rd-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311527\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie Cole Knuble pots 1st 2 NHL goals to help Flyers beat Sabres for 3rd straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/cole-knuble-flyers-nhl-debut-vs-avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cole Knuble<\/a>\u00a0scored twice to help the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-1 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Knuble, playing his second career game, scored his first two goals in front of his father, former NHL forward Mike Knuble, who played 1,068 games with five teams.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Zegras also scored and Dan Vladar made 27 saves to give the Flyers their third straight win after starting 0-6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Zucker made his season debut following sports hernia surgery and scored for Buffalo. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 23 shots for the Sabres, who are 1-1-2 in their last four games.<\/p>\n<p>Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin returned to the lineup after missing four games with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers grabbed a 2-0 lead late in the first period after Knuble&#8217;s first career goal at 14:49 and a power-play goal from Zegras at 19:17 when he batted a rebound of Matvei Michkov&#8217;s shot out of the air past Luukkonen.<\/p>\n<p>Zucker&#8217;s power-play goal at 19:25 of the second cut it to 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Knuble&#8217;s second of the game, 3:03 into the third, made it 3-1 after he banked in the puck off Luukkonen&#8217;s skate.<\/p>\n<p>Flyers forward Tyson Foerster returned to the lineup after a one-game absence because of an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams are in action again Saturday. The Sabres open a four-game trip against the Washington Capitals, while the Flyers return home to host the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie forward Cole Knuble\u00a0scored twice to help the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-1 on Wednesday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4843,28,69,4845,71,70],"class_list":["post-311527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-nhl","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}