Phillip Danault scored the overtime winner to give the Montreal Canadiens a 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators in pre-season action Saturday afternoon.
Paul Byron and Bryan Flynn also scored for the Canadiens while Al Montoya made 24 saves.
Mike Hoffman and Kyle Turris had the Ottawa goals. Andrew Hammond stopped 29 shots.
This was the Senators' first pre-season game on home ice, giving the 17,147 spectators at Canadian Tire Centre their first opportunity to see new head coach Guy Boucher at work.
Boucher chose to dress seven defencemen and 11 forwards for the game, however neither Bobby Ryan nor Cody Ceci saw their first shift until the second period.
Montreal took a 1-0 lead just 37 seconds into the first period as Byron took advantage of some weak defensive play by the Senators and beat Hammond through the legs.
Ryan made his presence known early in the second period as he made a great pass to Hoffman to set up the Senators' power-play goal and tie the game 1-1. Ottawa took the lead moments later as Phil Varone found Turris alone in front and he beat Montoya with a solid backhand as he fell to the ice.
The Canadiens tied the game with 36.2 seconds remaining in regulation as Flynn was left all alone.
Varone now leads all Senators' scorers with six points (two goals, four assists) after three pre-season games.
The Canadiens are back in action Sunday night as they take on the Toronto Maple Leafs, while the Senators will have the day off before heading to Winnipeg to face the Jets on Monday.
Notes: Montreal's Torrey Mitchell suffered an upper-body injury midway through the first period and did not return.