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Tampa Bay players celebrate after completing a shocking late rally with an overtime victory over Detroit, tying their series with the Red Wings at 2-2.

DETROIT — Tyler Johnson led a stirring Tampa Bay rally late in regulation, then scored 2:25 into overtime to lift the Lightning to a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night, evening their playoff series at 2-2.

The Red Wings led 2-0 in the third period before Johnson scored with 5:26 remaining. He then assisted on Ondrej Palat’s tying goal 77 seconds later.

Early in the extra session, defenseman Victor Hedman led an odd-man rush from the right side and slid the puck across the goal mouth. It deflected ever so slightly off goalie Petr Mrazek, but Johnson was able to shoot into an open net from a tough angle for his fourth goal of the series.

Gustav Nyquist and Joakim Andersson scored in the second period for Detroit. Andersson’s goal came in fluky fashion when goalie Ben Bishop knocked it in off the crossbar.

Capitals 5, Islanders 1

WASHINGTON — With the crowd’s raucous chants of “We are louder!” ringing throughout a lopsided third period, a group of unheralded scorers put Washington on the verge of a playoff series victory.

Dominating despite zero points from Alex Ovechkin or Nicklas Backstrom, the Capitals beat New York to take a 3-2 lead in the first round, with rookie Evgeny Kuznetsov scoring twice and defenseman Karl Alzner adding a goal and an assist.

The Capitals can end the best-of-seven Eastern Conference series by winning Game 6 at New York on Saturday, in what could be the Islanders’ final game at Nassau Coliseum before they move to Brooklyn next season.

Thursday’s third period began with Washington ahead only 2-1. But Kuznetsov, Brooks Laich and Jason Chimera found the net in quick succession, and Islanders goalie Jaroslav Halak was yanked with 11 minutes left in the game after allowing five goals on 35 shots.

And to think: The Islanders took a 1-0 lead in the first period.

Washington goalie Braden Holtby finished with 22 saves.

The cries of “Louder!” and “Can you hear us?!” from spectators were a reference to some back-and-forth among players from both teams over whose arena makes more noise.