Celebrini completes hat trick in overtime as Sharks beat Utah Mammoth

Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News on Nov 19, 2025

Published in Hockey

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SAN JOSE – Macklin Celebrini scored at the 2:52 mark of overtime to complete his third career hat trick to give the San Jose Sharks a 3-2 win over the Utah Mammoth on Tuesday at SAP Center.

Handling the puck near the blue line and with the Sharks on a power play, Celebrini fired the puck past Utah goalie Vitek Vanecek for his 13th goal of the season.

The Sharks had a two-goal lead, but allowed two third-period goals to JJ Peterka, including the tying goal with 2:51 left in regulation.

Celebrini also scored even-strength goals at the 1:47 and 5:58 marks of the first period for his 11th and 12th goals of the season. Askarov had 14 saves in the first two periods and 10 more in the third, but a shot by Peterka from 40 feet away got between the goalie’s upper body and left arm to tie the game 2-2.

Coming into Tuesday, Askarov has been the NHL’s best goalie over the past two weeks with a .965 save percentage and a 4-1-0 record in his last five games.

According to Sportradar, Askarov is the first goalie since the 1955-56 season, when the NHL began tracking such statistics, to have a save percentage that high over a five-game stretch without a shutout.

After Peterka scored at the 9:25 mark of the third period to cut the Sharks’ lead to 2-1, the Mammoth thought they had tied the game with 6:22 left in regulation. But it was ruled on the ice that the Mammoth had interfered with Askarov, a call that was upheld after a coach’s challenge by Utah.

The Sharks were coming off a 1-2-0 road trip that finished with losses to the Calgary Flames and Seattle Kraken, and they didn’t score a 5-on-5 goal in any of the three games.

Celebrini solved that problem with a lightning-fast start against the Mammoth.

After the Sharks created a turnover inside their own zone, Will Smith started a rush the other way and got the puck to Celebrini, who carried it into the Utah zone. He then got the puck to Philipp Kurashev, who retrieved it behind the Mammoth net.

Kurashev then sent it out front to Smith, who snapped a pass across the slot to Celebrant. The 19-year-old took a moment before he fired it past Utah goalie Vitek Vanecek for his 11th of the season, 1:47 into the game.

Just 4:11 later, Celebrini broke up a Mammoth pass inside the Sharks’ to set up another rush. Sharks winger Collin Graf picked up the loose puck and sent it ahead to Celebrini, who went in alone on Vanecek and beat his former San Jose teammate five-hole for a 2-0 San Jose lead.

Celebrini’s second goal, which came on a breakaway after a pass from Collin Graf, represented his 29th point of the season, the most for any Sharks player through the first 20 games of the season.

Before Tuesday, Celebrini was third in the NHL with 27 points in 19 games, which was also the third-most ever by a teenager through 19 games, trailing only Sidney Crosby (30 in 2006-07) and Wayne Gretzky (30 in 1980-81). He recently tied Crosby and Gretzky for fewest games needed by a teenager to reach 26 points in a season (17; Nov. 11).