John Tavares scored a tiebreaking power-play goal in the third period, and the New York Islanders beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Saturday night.

Tavares put the Islanders ahead during a goalmouth scramble with 3:36 left. New York scored twice on the power play after entering with just two on the road this season.

Josh Bailey and Cal Clutterbuck also scored for New York, which was coming off a 3-2 loss Friday night at Florida, a game that the Panthers won in a five-round shootout.

Alex Killorn and Anton Stralman scored for the Lightning. Steven Stamkos had two assists.

Killorn put in a rebound from the low slot at 16:20 of the first after a tip-in try by Stamkos.

Stralman made it 2-0 from near the post off a backhand pass from the slot by Stamkos 1:39 into the second.

Bailey cut the Islanders' deficit to 2-1 on a give-and-go with Brock Holt during a power play at 3:51 of the second.

Thomas Greiss had a nifty poke check to stop Stamkos from getting the puck on net during a penalty shot with 9:34 to go in the second. The goalie also made a save 30 seconds later on Valtteri Filppula's breakaway shot.

Clutterbuck tied it at 2 with 3:09 left in the second by poking the puck past Ben Bishop after Lightning defenseman Braydon Coburn lost control of it in front of net.

NOTES: Tampa Bay C Tyler Johnson, who played just one shift in Friday's 4-2 loss at Washington before leaving with an undisclosed injury, didn't play. ... The Islanders activated D Thomas Hickey (lower body) from injured reserve. He had been out since Oct. 26. ... New York recalled G JF Berube from Bridgeport of the AHL and placed him on IR with a lower body injury. ... Tampa Bay recalled LW Mike Angelidis from Syracuse of the AHL.