TAMPA — Brayden Point missed the mark in the opening game of the second round of the playoffs.

In Game 2, the Lightning center — along with linemates Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat — put one right on the bull’s-eye to lead Tampa Bay to a 4-2 victory against the Bruins Monday night.

The series is tied at a game apiece heading to Boston for Game 3 on Wednesday.

The performance by the Point line is the main reason.

Point finished the night with 4 points on a goal and three assists to tie a franchise playoff record for points in a game, and he set a personal best for most points in a game, regular season or postseason. Johnson had a goal on a team-high five shots and Palat scored the winner late in the third period and finished with 2 points.

Their showing in Game 2 was a reversal of fortune from the first game, when the trio was a combined minus-12 while matched up against the Patrice Bergeron line.

“We are a confident line,’’ Johnson said. “I thought the last game wasn’t really our best game, obviously, and I felt we needed to have a bounce back, we needed to have an answer. I thought we did that today, I felt we competed really hard, I felt we played well and we got rewarded with some chances and some opportunities.’’

Point in particular had the most noticeable difference. After being on the ice for five goals against in Game 1, the sophomore center appearing in his first Stanley Cup playoffs registered a point on all four Lightning goals and sealed the victory with an empty-net goal with 26 seconds remaining.

“Last night you go minus-5 and tonight your line puts up points,’’ Point said. “That’s the playoffs. You can’t get too high or too low.’’

In the day off between games, the constant story line focused on the Point line vs. the Bergeron line, which finished with 11 points in Game 1. Point has been the Lightning’s matchup center all season, so if they were not going to be able to slow down Boston’s top line, it was going to spell trouble for Tampa Bay.

But Lightning coach Jon Cooper didn’t hesitate to go back to the same matchup for Game 2, putting Point and Co. on the ice to take the opening faceoff, announcing right away there was no thought of changing things around despite the struggles to start the series.

“I honestly didn’t,’’ Cooper said when asked if he considered a change. “I have been asked that question quite a bit in the past three days. But we’ve watched him check the best lines in the league all year so there was no reason to sit and say that after one game we need to panic and say they can’t do it. We have faith in them and I thought they were outstanding tonight.’’

To get his point across, Cooper did something he rarely does — issue a public challenge through the media to his best defensive line. On Sunday, Cooper said Bergeron’s line had too easy of a night and his players needed to be harder on them if they wanted to have success.

If that was the public challenge, behind closed doors it was more to the point.

“A challenge is a challenge,’’ Cooper said with the hint of a grin. “That was it and they rose to the challenge.’’