PITTSBURGH — It was like old times Monday night at the Penguins’ ice arena. Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby scored goals, and the crowd was cheering for Marc-Andre Fleury.

Only Fleury wasn’t playing for the Penguins, or even on the ice.

The Wild rallied from a three-goal deficit to tie the game early in the third period, but two Penguins power-play goals were the difference as Pittsburgh beat the Wild, 4-3, at PPG Paints Arena.

The loss ended the Wild’s three-game winning streak.

Ryan Hartman, Jake Middleton and Vinni Lettieri scored goals for Minnesota, changing the narrative late in a game that had been dominated by the Penguins — and their fans’ disquiet over Wild coach John Hynes’ decision to start Filip Gustavsson in goal rather than Fleury, the future hall of famer who won three Stanley Cups in Pittsburgh and might have been here with pads on for the last time on Monday.

Gustavsson finished with 26 saves as the Wild dropped the first game on a two-game trip that continues Tuesday night in Boston. He entered the game on a 6-1-0 tear (1.21 goals-against, .953 save percentage) during the Wild’s 7-2-0 start under Hynes.

But fans booed when Gustavsson was shown on the JumboTron during warmups, and after Reilly Smith scored on a backhander just over Gustavsson’s glove 7 minutes, 34 seconds into the game, they began cheering, “We want Fleury!”

It got louder with each successive Pittsburgh goal, Jake Guentzel’s tip of an Erik Karlsson slapshot on a power play 36 seconds into the second period, and when Malkin finished a two-on-none for his 482nd career goal two minutes later to make it 3-0.

Chants of “We want Fleury!” soon turned simply to “Fleury!” And at one point, Fleury stepped away from his seat on the visiting bench and watched from the tunnel.

But it was the Wild’s play that finally ended the shenanigans. Hartman finished a rush by swiping home a pass from Brock Faber to make it 3-1 with 4:44 left in the second period, and Middleton hammered a pass from Matt Boldy past Alex Nedeljkovic to make it 3-2 with 2:30 left in the second.

Minnesota finally tied it on Lettieri’s deflection of snap shot by Jon Merrill 5:33 into the third period, but after committing five penalties in a 2-1 shootout victory over Vancouver on Saturday, the Wild were called for six more on Monday, and Crosby scored the go-ahead goal after Kirill Kaprizov was called for high-sticking at 5:45.

The Wild pulled Gustavsson with just under two minutes to play, and Kaprizov had a Grade A chance to tie it on a slapshot from the right circle with 32.2 seconds left. But Nedeljkovic swallowed it. He stopped 24 shots for the Penguins, and Crosby’s two points put him into 13th place in career NHL points with 1,535.