After going the first eight minutes of the game without getting a shot on net, the Pittsburgh Penguins capitalized on only their second shot of the game. Sidney Crosby dug the puck out of the corner and passed it to Marian Hossa, who was waiting in the left of the slot and made no mistake in snapping the puck over Detroit Red Wings goaltender Chris Osgood’s right shoulder.

Pittsburgh’s second goal came with five minutes left, in the period when Adam Hall attempted to crash the net and stuff the puck under Osgood. He was tied up, and left the puck sitting idle in front of the net for a split second. In that short time frame, Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall attempted to clear the puck to the right of Osgood, but the puck redirected off of Hall’s skate and into the net.

Kronwall recovered from the bad break quickly, as only three shifts later he made a brilliant play on a Pittsburgh 2-on-1. He waited out Hossa, and prevented him from passing the puck to a streaking Crosby, who would have had a wide-open net to shoot at.

Detroit started the second period with a newfound energy. Two minutes into the period, Pittsburgh committed two costly turnovers in their defensive zone and Darren Helm made them pay.

Helm got possession of the puck on the left boards and threw it to the net. It skittered off of a sliding Pittsburgh defender and found its way through goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury.

Mikael Samuelsson had a chance to tie the game up when he received a pass from Valtteri Filppula on a 2-on-1. Fleury was just able to get across his net and get his left skate on the puck.

Down one goal, a possessed team came out to play in the third period. Detroit took it to Pittsburgh the entire period, putting together several prime scoring chances but couldn’t get the puck past Fleury.

But that changed when Pavel Datsyuk tied the game at two on a tip-in power play goal at 6:43. A timeout by the Penguins did little to quell the Detroit fury, as Brian Rafalski put the Red Wings ahead 3-2 off of a nice pass from Johan Franzen at 9:23.

With the Wings looking in control, the Penguins’ last gasp paid off, as Maxime Talbot scored with 35 seconds left to tie the game and send it into overtime.

After two scoreless overtimes, Pittsburgh caught a break when Jiri Hudler was whistled for a four-minute high sticking penalty, setting up Sykora’s game winner with 10:03 remaining in the overtime session.

Fluery made 55 saves for the Penguins. Game 6 is set for 8 p.m. Wednesday in Pittsburgh.