Lightning strike in OT, even series

Ondrej Palat scored at 4:40 of overtime to give the Lightning a 4-3 win over the Bruins on Tuesday night in Toronto, evening their Eastern Confrence semifinal series at one game apiece.

Reigning Vezina Trophy winner Andrei Vasilevskiy had 22 saves and became the Lightning’s alltime playoff leader with 22 wins as the team improved to 4-0 in overtimes games this postseason.

Game 3 of the best-of-seven matchup is Wednesday night.

Blake Coleman had two goals and Nikita Kucherov also scored for the Lightning. Kucherov tied it 2-2 with 41⁄2 minutes left in the second period, and Coleman’s second of the game put the Lightning ahead with 9:20 left in the third.

Brad Marchand’s second goal of the night, off a nifty feed from Sean Kuraly, tied it 3-3 with just under 4 minutes to go in regulation.

The second-seeded Lightning outshot the fourth-seeded Bruins 40-25, including 9-1 in overtime.

Nick Ritchie also scored for the Bruins, and Jaroslav Halak finished with 36 saves.

David Pastrnak, the league’s leading scorer during the regular season, had the primary assist on Marchand’s power-play goal at 14:33 of the second period. He picked up another assist on the goal that tied it in the third.

The Lightning, who trailed 3-0 before scoring in Game 1, had a goal by Barclay Goodrow disallowed in the opening period when the Bruins successfully challenged that Brayden Point was offside seconds before the apparent score that would have have erased the Bruins’ early 1-0 lead.

Instead of dwelling on the reversal, the Lightning kept working until Coleman’s diving shot off a feed from Zach Bogosian made it 1-1 at 12:42 of the opening period. It remained tied after Marchand scored for the Bruins, and Nikita Kucherov countered for the Lightning within a 55-second span of the second period.

The loss stopped the Bruins’ four-game winning streak since starting goalie Tuukka Rask opted out of the playoffs.

The Lightning played without defenseman Ryan McDonagh, who was injured during the third period of Game 1.

Stars take 2-0 lead: Alexander Radulov scored on a deflection off his chest as part of a four-goal second period and the thirdseeded Stars beat the secondseeded Avalanche 5-2 on Monday night to take a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference secondround series in Edmonton, Alberta.

Trailing 2-0 in the second period, Joe Pavelski and Radek Faksa revitalized the Stars by scoring in a 43-second span during a 5-on-3 advantage.

The Stars were just getting started. Radulov knocked in the go-ahead goal when a shot bounced off a stick, into his chest and over Avs goaltender Pavel Francouz. Esa Lindell then added another with 46 seconds remaining to make it 4-2.

Anton Khudobin stopped 38 shots as the Stars won their fifth straight game.