PITTSBURGH -- Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 26 shots in what will likely be his final game in the Steel City as the Minnesota Wild defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 on Tuesday night.

Frederick Gaudreau scored twice and Kirill Kaprizov added a goal and two assists. Kaprizov tied the franchise record with his sixth straight multipoint game. Mats Zuccarello and Jakub Lauko also scored for Minnesota.

Fleury, who turns 40 next month, indicated the 2024-25 season will be his last. Now in his 21st NHL season, he played his 100th game with Minnesota on Tuesday, and saluted the fans afterward.

"It's maybe hard to believe that's the last time. I've told you I've gotten soft," Fleury joked in his postgame media availability. "But so appreciative, from the bottom of my heart, with what everybody's done for me over the years, and the support."

He spent the first 13 seasons of his career with Pittsburgh and won three Stanley Cups: in 2009, 2016 and 2017.

"It's tough to put into words," Fleury said in his on-ice, postgame interview. "This is a second home for me, and I have so many great memories, so many great people in the locker room throughout the years. And the fans, obviously, right?"

Pittsburgh traded up to select an 18-year-old Fleury No. 1 in the 2003 NHL draft and he responded by stabilizing the franchise during a tumultuous time in its history.

"I feel very fortunate," he said. "The years here were some of the best years of my life. It's hard to say bye."

Fleury, still a fan favorite in Pittsburgh, acknowledged the crowd following a video tribute during the first television timeout as the beloved goaltender received a standing ovation and loud chants in an emotional moment.

Rickard Rakell scored twice and Valtteri Puustinen got his first power-play goal for Pittsburgh.

Sidney Crosby had three assists. Joel Blomqvist stopped 34 shots for Pittsburgh, which lost its sixth straight game.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

MINNEAPOLIS -- After his 32-foot step-back dagger swished through the net, Luka Doncic stared into the Target Center crowd and shouted a profane reminder to nobody in particular.

"That's what I f---ing do," Doncic roared after the shot he launched from near the Minnesota Timberwolves' half-court logo stretched the Dallas Mavericks' lead to eight points with 1:04 remaining in their 120-114 win Tuesday night.

It certainly was a familiar sight. Clutch efforts by Doncic highlighted the Mavs' five-game victory over the Timberwolves in last season's Western Conference finals.

"We've seen this movie before," Mavs coach Jason Kidd said. "He loves the opportunity to win the game. He's not scared, and he stepped up and made a big shot."

Call this a sequel. The most memorable moment of the Mavs' run to the NBA Finals last spring occurred on the same end of the Target Center court, when Doncic danced with his dribble before drilling a Game 2-winning step-back 3-pointer over four-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert.

Doncic celebrated that shot by loudly informing Gobert that the big man couldn't guard him, peppering in a couple of expletives with his trash talk, although he kidded in the aftermath that he was speaking Slovenian.

Doncic hit this dagger over Timberwolves guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker and took the moment to respond to a fan base that expressed its hard feelings for him throughout the game.

"I heard a lot of stuff. They really like me here," Doncic said with dry wit after his 27-point, 8-rebound, 9-assist performance. "You know, last year was fun. It was a big moment in my career and in my life, so it was fun to be back here."

According to ESPN Research, in the West finals, Dallas became the first team in the play-by-play era (since 1997-98) to take a 3-0 series lead despite trailing with five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter in each of those games. The Mavs provided the Timberwolves a painful reminder of their closing prowess in the first meeting between these teams this season.

As was the case in the playoffs, Kyrie Irving co-starred alongside Doncic down the stretch. The Wolves didn't lead down the stretch this time, but Minnesota whittled a Mavs lead that was 11 points entering the fourth quarter to a one-possession margin on four occasions in the final four minutes.

The Mavs answered with a bucket each time: a driving layup by Irving, an alley-oop from Doncic to P.J. Washington, an Irving 3 off the dribble and a Doncic finger roll after attacking Gobert on a closeout.

The Mavs scored 21 points in the final 7:15, when Doncic and Irving combined for 16.

"It's just winning time," said Irving, who scored 25 of his team-high 35 points in the second half. "I knew that we needed to create some separation in the game just to continue to ride on that confidence, and it worked out well for us. But we know that [Minnesota] is going to be a little bit different when we play them every single time. They're going to make a little bit of adjustment here and there. And down the line, we're going to see 'em pretty often."

Another similarity to last season's West finals: Doncic dealt with a sore right knee. He exited with 70 seconds left in the second quarter, hobbling to the locker room after Minnesota's Jaden McDaniels inadvertently hit him from behind on a drive.

Doncic returned to start the second half. His knee, which was sprained for most of the playoffs, had a wrap on it. He tested it with a series of jogs, skips, hops and defensive slides in the final few minutes of halftime.

It wasn't until the fourth quarter, when Doncic led all scorers with 11 points, that he got into a groove. He has had a slow start to the season after sitting out all of training camp and the preseason because of a left calf bruise. He's shooting only 36.4% from the field and 26.8% from 3-point range for the 3-1 Mavs.

Doncic was 10-of-27 from the field and missed his first seven 3s on Tuesday night, a drought he ended with his 32-foot dagger.

"I don't know how I can make those shots and not normal shots," Doncic said. "I don't know how I do it. At the end of the day, I've just got to get the rustiness out. I'll be back. I didn't play the whole preseason, so I need some time. But we got the win. That's all that matters."

NEW YORK -- As the game evolved and the margin shrank, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was confronted with an interesting choice -- the type one hardly confronts in the high-stakes environment of a World Series. One was to use his best relievers in hopes that his offense might come all the way back, giving himself the best possible opportunity to clinch a title. The other was to essentially punt, utilizing lower-leverage relievers to save his best arms for another day.

Roberts clearly chose the latter approach in Wednesday's 11-4, Game 4 loss to the New York Yankees. The hope -- with his team still up 3-1 in this best-of-seven-series, one win away from a championship -- is that it will pay off in the very near future.

"It's challenging," Roberts said. "I think you've got to be certain that you can score some runs. Certainly any guy we use tonight would have not been able to pitch tomorrow."

The Dodgers burned through six high-leverage relievers who combined to throw 100 pitches in Game 3 the prior night. It got them the victory that provided a commanding lead in this best-of-seven series, but it severely compromised the bullpen game that would be staged 24 hours later.

The Dodgers used the unheralded Ben Casparius and Landon Knack to tackle six of the first seven innings, during which they allowed only two runs. When the eighth inning arrived, they trailed by just two runs. But rather than pluck from his group of high-leverage arms -- a group fronted by Blake Treinen, who warmed up in Game 3 but did not pitch -- Roberts handed the ball to Brent Honeywell Jr., a long reliever who did yeoman's work by bailing out the bullpen in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series but is nonetheless low in the pecking order.

Honeywell proceeded to give up five runs, turning Game 4 into a rout.

Asked if it was tempting to chase a victory in that situation, Roberts said: "No. Not 6-4 in the eighth it wasn't. No."

The Dodgers' bullpen limits first presented themselves much earlier. Freddie Freeman had once again provided an early lead with a first-inning two-run homer, setting a record by hitting a home run in six consecutive World Series games dating back to 2021. But the Yankees tacked on a run in the second and went off for four more in the third against Daniel Hudson, the only high-leverage reliever the Dodgers wound up using in Game 4.

Hudson, who also threw 22 pitches in Game 3, plunked Aaron Judge, allowed a single to Jazz Chisholm Jr., walked Giancarlo Stanton and, after getting Anthony Rizzo to pop up for the second out, served up a grand slam to Anthony Volpe, giving the Yankees a 5-2 lead. That third inning, Roberts said, was Hudson's to take down, regardless of how it went.

"That was his inning," Roberts said. "I think he was at 20 pitches, something like that. He had Volpe up, so, I'm not going to get somebody in the third inning to get Volpe when he just popped a guy up."

The Dodgers successfully used a bullpen game to keep their season alive in Game 4 of the NL Division Series and then again to clinch a pennant in Game 6 of the NLCS. But it also backfired in Game 2 of the NLCS and in Game 4 of this round. They're now done with that. If the World Series extends far enough to return to Los Angeles, the Dodgers will have Yoshinobu Yamamoto set to take the ball in Game 6 and Walker Buehler in line to start a winner-take-all Game 7.

Before that, for Game 5 from Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night, it'll be Jack Flaherty going up against Yankees ace Gerrit Cole. But Flaherty will have help. Treinen, who has been used for four or more outs four times in this postseason, will be four days removed from his last appearance. Brusdar Graterol, Alex Vesia, Anthony Banda, Ryan Brasier and Michael Kopech will be coming out of an off day, with another one to follow.

The Dodgers essentially lost one game in hopes that it will help them win another.

"We knew it was a bullpen game," Roberts said. "As far as outcomes -- to have six guys in your 'pen that are feeling good, rested, I feel good about that. And being up 3-1."

The Detroit Red Wings traded veteran defenseman Olli Maatta to the Utah Hockey Club on Tuesday night, as the NHL's newest team tries to overcome significant injuries to its blueline.

Utah sent a 2025 third-round draft choice, previously acquired from the New York Rangers, to Detroit for Maatta, who carries a $3 million salary cap hit and is an unrestricted free agent after this season.

Maatta, 30, had played seven games for the Red Wings this season, averaging 15:52 per game on Detroit's third pairing. While he's yet to tally a point this season, Maatta had 4 goals and 14 assists in 72 games for Detroit in 2023-24.

Maatta is in his 12th NHL season, having played 691 career games for Detroit, Los Angeles, Chicago and the Pittsburgh Penguins, with whom he won two Stanley Cups. Current Utah defenseman Ian Cole was his teammate on those Pittsburgh teams.

After a fast start to their inaugural season in Salt Lake City, Utah HC is 1-4-2 in its last seven games. While this early season trade could seek to shake things up for a struggling club, it also addresses a critical area of need for Utah.

Defenseman Sean Durzi underwent right shoulder surgery last week and is expected to be out 4-6 months. In 2023-24, he was the leading scorer among defensemen for the Arizona Coyotes, who left for Utah after last season. Utah also lost defenseman John Marino, whom they acquired from New Jersey in June. Marino had yet to play a game for Utah this season due to injury. The team said he had lower back surgery last week that will keep him out 3-4 months.

Maatta gives Utah a sorely needed veteran option in their defense corps, while Detroit subtracts salary and gets good draft pick value for him.

NEW YORK -- Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman homered in the first inning of Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night, breaking a World Series record with a homer in sixth consecutive games.

The 35-year-old Freeman, whose injuries had hobbled him and limited him to only singles through the first two rounds of the playoffs, has found his power stroke in the World Series. His latest home run came off an 86 mph slider from New York Yankees right-hander Luis Gil and staked the Dodgers to a 2-0 lead. That lead was short-lived, however, as the Yankees responded in a big way to win their first game of the series, 11-4.

According to ESPN Research, Freeman is the second player to homer in four straight games in a single World Series, and the first to homer in each of the first four games. George Springer homered in the last four games of the 2017 World Series against the Dodgers.

Los Angeles leads the series 3-1. Freeman is the overwhelming favorite to earn MVP honors if the Dodgers can clinch their eighth championship. Game 5 is Wednesday.

"I will look back on it after, hopefully, when we get this done tomorrow," Freeman said. "Pretty cool obviously, hopefully I can keep it going tomorrow."

Freeman has hit two-run, first-inning homers in consecutive games, tagging Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt in a 4-2 victory Monday in Game 3. His Game 2 home run, off New York left-hander Carlos Rodon, was the team's third of the game.

In Game 1, Freeman set the tone for the series with the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history.

The streak dates to 2021, when Freeman was with the Atlanta Braves and they were finishing a World Series win against Houston. Freeman homered in a Game 5 loss before adding a solo shot -- his fifth of the series -- in the seventh inning of the Braves' title-clinching win in Game 6.

In the 10 games of his World Series career, Freeman is hitting .343/.385/.943 with six home runs and 14 RBIs.