🔔 Away Flyers 2-0 in series
3–2
Final
BUF leads 4–2
⚔️ Home Sabres 0-2 in series
Scoring 1st2nd3rdF
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Flyers at Sabres — First Round Game 3

Flyers, First Round Game 3, beat Sabres 3–2 at KeyBank Center on April 16, 2001.

🗓 Mon, Apr 16, 2001 · 18:30 CDT 📍 KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🏒 2000-01 playoffs View the series → Head-to-head history →

🏒 First Round — Best of 7

BUF vs PHI · BUF leads 4–2 Full series →
Game 1
2–1
Final · BUF
Game 2
4–3
OT · BUF
Game 3
3–2
Final · PHI
Game 4
3–4
OT · BUF
Game 5
1–3
Final · PHI
Game 6
0–8
Final · BUF

⭐ Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star ⚔️ BUF
Chris Gratton
1 G, 1 A
4 shots · 15:49 TOI
2nd star ⚔️ BUF
Miroslav Satan
2 A
1 shots · 16:34 TOI
3rd star 🔔 PHI
Simon Gagne
1 G
2 shots · 16:40 TOI

🚨 Scoring

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📊 Team stats

Away left · home right
🔔PHI BUF⚔️
19 Shots on goal 28
1/2 Power play (goals / chances) 2/3
26 Hits 31
12 Blocked shots 15
5 Takeaways 4
18 Giveaways 18
10 Penalty minutes 8
PHI shooting 15.8% (3/19) BUF shooting 7.1% (2/28)

🥅 Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
🔔Flyers
Roman Cechmanek
26/28
.929 SV% · 2 GA · 59:58 TOI
⚔️Sabres
Dominik Hasek
16/19
.842 SV% · 3 GA · 59:06 TOI

🔮 Period by period

AI
After 1st — 0–0
Flyers
Flyers — tied after 1st: 50-26-8 (60% win rate, 84 games)
Sabres
Sabres — tied after 1st: 50-30-4 (60% win rate, 84 games)
After 2nd — 0–0
Flyers
Flyers — tied after 2nd: 50-26-8 (60% win rate, 84 games)
Sabres
Sabres — tied after 2nd: 50-30-4 (60% win rate, 84 games)

🧩 Lines & pairings

Estimated from ice time
🔔Flyers
L1 LeClair · Primeau · Recchi 19:42
L2 Gagne · Langkow · Tocchet 16:40
L3 Fedotenko · Plante · Manderville 11:45
L4 Ranheim · McAmmond · Hull 10:18
D1 Desjardins · Mcgillis 23:56
D2 Richardson · Therien 19:48
D3 Sykora · Delmore 15:22
⚔️Sabres
L1 Gilmour · Satan · Heinze 16:34
L2 Gratton · Barnes · Audette 15:49
L3 Tsyplakov · Brown · Varada 14:23
L4 Andreychuk · Dumont · Afinogenov 11:22
D1 Zhitnik · Warrener 21:12
D2 Patrick · Kalinin 18:41
D3 McKee · Smehlik 18:18

⚔️ Last meetings

Full head-to-head →
Apr 14, 2001
⚔️BUF @ 🔔PHI
4–3 (OT) · Sabres won
Apr 11, 2001
⚔️BUF @ 🔔PHI
2–1 · Sabres won
Apr 8, 2001
🔔PHI @ ⚔️BUF
2–1 · Flyers won
Mar 1, 2001
⚔️BUF @ 🔔PHI
0–2 · Flyers won
Nov 22, 2000
🔔PHI @ ⚔️BUF
3–1 · Flyers won

❓ PHI vs BUF, answered

Who won Flyers vs Sabres on April 16, 2001?

Flyers won 3–2.

What was the final score of Flyers vs Sabres?

The final score was Flyers 3, Sabres 2.

How did the Flyers goalie play?

Roman Cechmanek made 26 saves on 28 shots (.929 save percentage).

How did the Sabres goalie play?

Dominik Hasek made 16 saves on 19 shots (.842 save percentage).

Where is Flyers vs Sabres played?

At KeyBank Center in Buffalo, the Sabres home rink.

Have a different question? Ask the Oracle — it answers from this season's box scores.

🧭 Around this game

Each team's schedule either side of it
🔔Flyers
Previous game · Apr 14
⚔️BUF @ 🔔PHI
4–3 · BUF won
Next game · Apr 17
🔔PHI @ ⚔️BUF
3–4 · BUF won
⚔️Sabres
Previous game · Apr 14
⚔️BUF @ 🔔PHI
4–3 · BUF won
Next game · Apr 17
🔔PHI @ ⚔️BUF
3–4 · BUF won
Also on April 16, 2001
🏛️OTT @ 🍁TOR
2–3 final
🦅WSH @ 🐧PIT
0–3 final
🏔️COL @ 🐋VAN
4–3 final
🎵STL @ 🦈SJS
6–3 final
Flyers season page Sabres season page Head-to-head record Full NHL schedule