Flyers kick off homestand in dominant style, push point streak to 5

Flyers kick off homestand in dominant style, push point streak to 5 games originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

The Flyers opened a five-game homestand in promising fashion Saturday night, rolling the Sabres for a 5-2 win at the Wells Fargo Center.

Five players had multi-point performances and Ivan Fedotov was strong in net again.

John Tortorella’s club is on a season-best five-game point streak (4-0-1) and has earned at least a point in eight of its last 11 games. The Flyers (8-8-2) have built some real momentum after a 1-5-1 start. They’ve won three straight games for the first time this season.

“The year that we had last year and the work that we put in, you forget how hard it was to play at that level and you think it’s just going to happen again when you come into a season,” Travis Sanheim said. “We’re doing a much better job of working for each other and competing. And we’re getting the results.”

Sanheim, Tyson Foerster, Egor Zamula and Travis Konecny all scored goals Saturday night. Foerster’s marker snapped a seven-game drought for the 22-year-old winger. It came on the power play and opened the scoring.

Sanheim made it 2-0 at first intermission before Zamula and Konecny made it 4-0 at second intermission.

Konecny iced the game with an empty-netter.

“The teams that get there in the end and the teams that become just who they are, who they want to be, are the ones that do it consistently,” Tortorella said. “I don’t think we’ve crossed that bridge yet; we’re 18 games into it and we’ve been up and down. We’ve steadied ourselves, but there’s still a little ways to go here.”

Matvei Michkov and Anthony Richard each had two assists. Michkov has 15 points (six goals, nine assists) in 16 games and Richard has six (two goals, four assists) in five.

“To be a part of this team, they’ve put me in good situations with good players,” Richard said. “It’s a chance I’ve been waiting for since I turned pro eight years ago.”

The Sabres (8-9-1) were without their leading…