Fleury made 26 saves for the Wild and likely won the final game in Pittsburgh

Fleury won the Stanley Cup three times (2009, 2016, 2017) in 13 seasons with Pittsburgh after being selected No. 1 overall in the 2003 NHL Draft.

Frederick Gaudreau scored two goals and an assist and Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and two assists for the Wild (6-1-2), who lost 7-5 at the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday.

Rickard Rakell scored two goals and Sidney Crosby had three assists for the Penguins (3-7-1), who have been outscored 27-13 in six straight losses. Joel Blomqvist made 35 saves.

Valtteri Puustinen gave Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead on the power play at 11:36 of the first period when Lars Eller fired a shot past a screen.

Rakell made it 2-0 at 15:31 by turning the ball over for a snapshot.

Jakub Lauko and Gaudreau then scored 55 seconds apart. Lauko made it 2-1 at 17:03 with a wrist shot from a tight angle; Gaudreau fired a shot from the right circle past the rookie's blocker to make it 2-2 at 17:58.

Gaudreau gave Minnesota a 3-2 lead at 1:38 of the second period with a wrist shot after Kaprizov intercepted a pass from Eller in the neutral zone.

Anthony Beauvillier came close to tying the Penguins three times in 10 seconds. At 14:40 he had a single goal on goal, at 14:46 he blocked a wrist shot and at 14:50 he hit a loose puck off the left post.

Mats Zuccarello increased the score to 4-2 at 19:23 by redirecting a spinning pass from Kaprizov for his fifth goal of the season.

Rakell blocked a shot from Marcus Pettersson and made it 4-3 with his sixth goal of the season at 3:36 of the third period.

At the other end, Kaprizov scored an unanswered goal at 19:41 to make the final score 5-3.