Jamie McGinn and Johan Larsson scored in the third period as the Buffalo Sabres posted a 4-2 comeback victory over the slumping Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night.
Marcus Foligno and Brian Gionta, into an empty net, also scored for Buffalo (21-26-4), which played its first game since the all-star break. The Sabres, last in the Atlantic Division, are 6-4-0 in their last 10 games.
Dale Weise and Alex Galchenyuk scored for Montreal (24-2-44), which has lost four in a row and us 1-8-1 in its last 10. The Canadiens opened the season on a 19-4-3 tear but are 5-20-1 since then.
Montreal outshot the Sabres 35-31.
The Canadiens were coming off a 4-2 loss Tuesday night in Philadelphia, so fatigue may have been a factor in surrendering a rare third-period lead.
They had the early chances and didn't score, but Buffalo got one on its first shot as Zemgus Girgensons stole a puck from Jeff Petry and fed it in front to a wide open Foligno for his fourth of the season at 5:10.
Weise tied it on a power play 3:19 into the second when he was at the edge of the crease to take a feed from Max Pacioretty and tap in his 12th of the season.
Tomas Plekanec won a faceoff and Galchenyuk wove his way in from the boards to beat Robin Lehner with a backhand shot at 11:04.
McGinn tied it 2-2 on a power play 7:34 into the third period when he was at the edge of the crease to tip in a diagonal feed from Rasmus Ristolainen.
Larsson, with only his second goal of the season, got between two defenceman to tip a Jake McCabe feed past Mike Condon at 11:46.
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