ST. LOUIS — Cody Eakin tallied his first playoff goal of the season and it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time for the Dallas Stars. With 2:58 elapsed in overtime, Eakin beat St. Louis goaltender Brian Elliott on a 3-on-2 break with a harsh-angle shot from the right circle to lift the Stars to a 3-2 victory Thursday night in Game 4 of their second-round NHL playoff series against the host Blues.

Eakin’s OT winner helped the Stars bounce back from a 6-1 blowout loss in Game 3 and tie the best-of-seven Western Conference playoff at two games apiece.

Game 5 is Saturday in Dallas.

Eakin, who has a goal and seven assists in the postseason, redeemed himself after he was called for a second-period slashing minor resulting in a power-play goal by St. Louis’s Paul Stastny at 13:06 that tied it, 2-2.

Patrick Sharp set up Eakin’s winner after the Blues had pressured Dallas goaltender Kari Lehtonen (24 saves) and also scored a power-play goal at 5:14 in the second that gave Dallas a 2-1 lead. Rookie Radek Faksa had the other goal for the Stars, who improved to 1-2 in overtime in the playoffs.

Vladimir Tarasenko scored his sixth goal of the playoffs on a first-period breakaway that enabled St. Louis to take a 1-0 lead. He also had an assist, giving him five points in the last two games.

Tarasenko’s goal was an exception to the rule in a tight-checking first period. Somehow he found the defense napping and scored his 16th career goal in 24 playoff games, beating Lehtonen between the pads.

The Stars looked worse on the play given they had six men on the ice, an infraction that went undetected.

Faksa, who had the deciding goal in the Stars’ Game 1 victory, tied it on an unassisted goal off a giveaway by fellow rookie Joel Edmundson. Sharp had a tap-in for his first point of the series on a power play, giving the Stars two goals in 1:09 and the lead.

They’d been 0 for 12 with the man advantage before Sharp’s fourth of the playoffs overall.