NEW YORK — Brian Boyle scored at 2:48 of overtime to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 5-4 victory over the New York Islanders on Tuesday night for a 2-1 lead in their second-round series.

Nikita Kucherov tied it in the final minute of regulation, and Ryan Callahan, Victor Hedman and Vladislav Namestnikov also scored for the Lightning. Ben Bishop stopped 35 shots.

Islanders goalie Thomas Greiss and defenseman Calvin de Haan look up at the referee after the puck was knocked in from above the net. The referee called a no goal on the play. The Associated Press

On the winning goal, the Lightning were on an odd-man rush and Hedman fired a shot from the left side that was wide, but the rebound came off the boards and right to Boyle in front at the right side of the goal and he tapped it in for the win.

Josh Bailey, back after missing the first two games of this series with an upper-body injury, had two goals, and Nick Leddy and Cal Clutterbuck also scored for the Islanders. Thomas Greiss finished with 36 saves.

Game 4 of the best-of-seven series is Friday night.

With Bishop pulled for an extra skater, Kucherov’s NHL-leading seventh goal of the playoffs evened it with 38.4 seconds remaining. Jonathan Drouin, who returned earlier in the period after taking a hard hit from Thomas Hickey in the second, was skating toward the goal line and sent a centering pass back to Kucherov, who fired it past Greiss for the fourth tie in the game.

Clutterbuck had given the Islanders a 4-3 lead with 8:37 remaining as he got the puck on a deflection of an outlet pass by the Lightning off the skate of the Islanders’ Casey Cizikas, and beat Bishop on the blocker side high and in off the crossbar.

NOTES

FLAMES: Bob Hartley was fired, a season after he was voted the NHL’s coach of the year.

Calgary took a big step backward this year after reaching the playoffs last season. The Flames finished 35-40-7, with only Vancouver and Edmonton posting fewer wins in the rugged Western Conference.

In four years with Calgary, Hartley had a regular-season record of 134-135-25. Associate coach Jacques Cloutier also won’t return next season. But assistant Martin Gelinas and goaltending coach Jordan Sigalet will remain.

PENGUINS: The team will be without Kris Letang for Game 4 against Washington after the NHL suspended him one game after interfering with Washington’s Marcus Johansson early in Pittsburgh’s 3-2 win over the Capitals on Monday night.

The NHL Department of Player Safety ruled that Letang made “significant head contact” on Johansson well after the Capitals’ forward had released the puck during a sequence in the first period.

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