Trevor Zegras scored, and Oliver Bonk had two assists for the Flyers (3-6-3), who won their first road game of the season (1-4-1) and third straight overall. Dan Vladar made 27 saves.
“I’m proud of them because we’ve got a lot of guys out, and some guys are stepping up and getting more minutes,” Philadelphia coach Rick Tocchet said. “Getting to our game a little quicker. I thought the last three, four games we’ve played to our identity a little bit more and we’re stacking some more shifts. It’s a lot of positive stuff, and we know we still have a lot of work to do.”
Jason Zucker scored, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 23 saves for the Sabres (4-4-2), whose four-game point streak ended (2-0-2).
“We talked about missed nets, missed opportunities,” Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said. “I think we’re, like, 31st or 32nd when it comes to missed nets. I thought we had some great looks in the first period, some good looks in the second period, too. I still think we missed the net too often. Our net-front coverage, again, we just handed them an easy goal. So, I mean, that was the two big things. They won the net battle for a couple goals. We didn’t.”
Knuble gave Philadelphia a 1-0 lead at 14:49 of the first period. He cleaned up the rebound of Bonk’s point shot with a backhand from in front past Luukkonen’s right skate.
“I just went to the net. I saw a shot coming and it was just sitting there, so I just put it on my backhand,” Knuble said. “It was pretty cool that ‘Bonker’ and (Denver Barkey) were part of that. We’ve known each other for a few years, so it’s fun.”