Conor Sheary nets the game-winner after Brandon Montour sent the game into OT.
By Heather Engel / NHL.com Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, PA. — Conor Sheary scored his second goal of the game at 4:11 of overtime to give the Buffalo Sabres a 4-3 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins at KeyBank Center on Friday.
Brandon Montour forced overtime with a shot from the blue line that got deflected past Penguins goalie Matt Murray, who was screened, to tie it 3-3 with 2:32 remaining in the third period.
Nick Bjugstad, Patric Hornqvist, and Sidney Crosby scored, and Justin Schultz had two assists for Pittsburgh (33-22-9), which has lost three of its past four games. Murray made 26 saves.
Jack Eichel scored, and Linus Ullmark made 41 saves for Buffalo (30-26-8), which won for the first time in three games.
Eichel extended his point streak to seven games when he shot from the left faceoff dot and beat Murray to the short side to make it 1-0 at 3:09 of the first period.
Bjugstad tied it 1-1 56 seconds later from the left circle at 4:05.
Sheary gave the Sabres a 2-1 lead on the power play at 12:53. Kyle Okposo received a pass from Montour at the goal line and sent it to Sheary in the slot.
The Penguins took advantage of a four-minute double minor to take their first lead, scoring twice in 57 seconds. Hornqvist, screening Ullmark, deflected Schultz’s point shot at 17:18 to tie it 2-2 at 17:18, and Crosby scored on a one-timer from the right circle for a second power-play goal at 18:21.
Crosby’s goal tied him with Jaromir Jagr for second in Penguins history (439).
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The Sabres travel north of the border on Saturday to take on the Maple Leafs in Toronto at 7 pm.