TAMPA, Florida: Tampa Bay improved to 2-0 in its NHL Eastern Conference playoff series against Detroit by beating the Red Wings 5-2 on Friday, spurred by a couple of third-period goals from Tyler Johnson.

In the day’s other playoff games, both Florida and Chicago squared their series at 1-1 by beating the New York Islanders and St. Louis respectively while Nashville won the opening games of its series against Anaheim.

Tampa Bay goaltender Ben Bishop had 30 saves for the defending East champions, who took the first two games of the series at home despite playing without injured leading goal scorer Steven Stamkos and defenseman Anton Stralman.

A bloody brawl involving several players capped this one, with 14 penalties called — including a game misconduct on Justin Abdelkader — with 54 seconds left.

Game 3 is Sunday in Detroit, where the Red Wings won both regular-season meetings between the teams.

Florida goalie Roberto Luongo made 41 saves for his first playoff win in five years, and the Panthers beat the Islanders 3-1.

Reilly Smith and Nick Bjugstad each had a goal and an assist for Florida, which salvaged a split in the series-opening back-to-back. Dmitry Kulikov added an empty-netter with 9.3 seconds left to clinch the win. Game 3 is in Brooklyn on Sunday.

John Tavares scored with 3:33 left for New York, and Thomas Greiss stopped 28 shots for the Islanders.

Chicago’s Andrew Shaw stuffed home a rebound on a power play with 4:19 remaining, minutes after the Blackhawks won a coach’s challenge to negate an apparent St. Louis goal, and the defending Stanley Cup champions edged the Blues 3-2.

Corey Crawford had a strong game in net and Duncan Keith also scored for Chicago in his first game back from a six-game suspension for a dangerous high stick. Keith assisted on Artemi Panarin’s clinching empty-net goal with 1:34 to go.

The series shifts to Chicago with Game 3 on Sunday.

Vladimir Tarasenko and Kevin Shattenkirk scored for St. Louis.

Nashville’s Filip Forsberg got credit for the tiebreaking goal with 9:35 to play and the Predators edged Anaheim 3-2.

Pekka Rinne made 27 saves for the Predators, who got the early jump on the Pacific Division champion Ducks with a gritty road effort.

James Neal and Colin Wilson also scored, while Forsberg scored the go-ahead goal when his cross-ice pass to Craig Smith hit defenseman Shea Theodore’s skate and trickled past John Gibson.

Game 2 is Sunday in Anaheim.

Captain Ryan Getzlaf and Ryan Kesler scored for the Ducks, who lost an opener for just the second time in seven playoff series under coach Bruce Boudreau.