BOSTON – Alex Tuch scored his second goal of the game in overtime, and the Buffalo Sabres rallied for a 4-3 victory over the NHL-best Boston Bruins for their sixth straight win.
Tage Thompson scored his team-leading 27th goal and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 37 shots for the Sabres, who won for just the second time in their last 11 games against the Bruins.
Trailing 3-2 and skating with an extra attacker after pulling its goalie, Buffalo tied it when Dylan Cozens slipped a wrister past Jeremy Swayman with 1:37 to play.
Boston´s Brad Marchand had scored the go-ahead goal on a clean breakaway after setting up Patrice Bergeron´s tying score just over five minutes into the third period.
David Pastrnak added his 25th goal and Swayman made 21 saves for the Bruins, who remained unbeaten in regulation at home at 18-0-3.
Tuch slipped a shot past Swayman from the slot for the game-winner, AP reported.
Marchand had collected Pastrnak´s pass, skated up the middle and slipped a wrister between Luukkonen´s pads.
Bergeron´s tying score came when he one-timed Marchand´s pass from the edge of the right circle.
Tuch skated in on a breakaway and slipped a wrister inside the left post to put the Sabres ahead 2-1 early in the second period.
Boston had taken a 1-0 edge at 13:09 of the first when Pastrnak one-timed David Krejci´s cross-ice pass, but Thompson collected the puck in front of the net and shifted around Swayman before tucking it in at 16:13 of the period.
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