Montreal won another shootout at the Bell Centre, beating Buffalo 4-3 on Tuesday. Zachary Bolduc scored the deciding goal for the second straight game, converting after earlier Montreal successes in the tiebreaker.
Buffalo led 3-1 through two periods, then tied the game early in the third with two goals in just over a minute. Olen Zellweger scored twice for the Sabres in the loss.
Lane Hutson and Cole Caufield each had a goal and an assist for Montreal, and Juraj Slafkovsky added two assists. Buffalo's Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 35 saves and kept his team in the game late in regulation.
The teams meet again in Montreal on Saturday, the second game of their four-game season series. Buffalo played without captain Rasmus Dahlin, who is listed as day to day with an upper-body injury.
