DETROIT -- The Penguins head home early this morning still alive in the Stanley Cup final after a gritty performance at Joe Louis Arena.

Facing elimination, they got a goal from Max Talbot with 35 seconds left in regulation, then won, 4-3, on Petr Sykora's goal at 9:57 of the third overtime to beat the Red Wings in an edge-of-your-seat Game 5, leaving the crowd at Joe Louis Arena stunned.

Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury played the game of his NHL life, stopping dozens of good Detroit shots.

Detroit holds a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. The Penguins can tie it with a win Wednesday in Game 6 at Mellon Arena.

The Penguins were shut out here in the first two games of the series by a combined 7-0, but went into the first intermission tonight with a 2-0 lead.

Marian Hossa opened the scoring when he took a feed from Sidney Crosby and whipped the puck over Red Wings goaltender Chris Osgood's stick at 8:37.

Adam Hall and the Penguins got a gift at 14:41 to make it 2-0.

Hall fought off Detroit's Johan Franzen in the left corner and swept in on Osgood, who made the stop, but Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall's attempt to bump the puck past the left goal post instead went into the net.

Detroit got the only goal during a second period of nearly non-stop action when rookie center Darren Helm's shot from the right point glanced off the skate of Penguins defenseman Rob Scuderi -- who had sprawled to try to for a block -- and scooted between Fleury's pads at 2:54.

Pavel Datsyuk tied it with a nifty redirect of Henrik Zetterberg's pass for power-play goal at 6:43 of the third period.

Defenseman Brian Rafalski made it 3-2 at 9:23 of the third. He took a pass from Franzen, who was behind the goal line, and slipped a shot from the right circle inside the near post.

With the season seemingly slipping away, Talbot stuffed the puck into the near corner of the goal from the right side of the net at 19:25 to tie it, 3-3, and send it to overtime.