All the Sharks needed for an overtime 3-2 win against the Utah Mammoth on Tuesday night at SAP Center was three goals from Macklin Celebrini.
San Jose’s star center recorded the third hat trick of his young professional career and second of the season, completing the trifecta on the power play in overtime as just the third teenager in NHL history to have a hat trick that included an OT goal.
Celebrini got off to a hot start Tuesday, scoring his first two goals within the first six minutes of the first period.
After a scoreless second period for both teams, the Mammoth struck back in the third to tie it 2-2 on two goals from JJ Peterka.
Celebrini was able to delivering the game-winning goal in OT and make more NHL history along the way, then was his usual humble self following the Sharks’ huge win.
“I mean, it’s great to find a way to win,” Celebrini told reporters after the victory. “That game probably didn’t go as we would have liked, but it’s good that we found a way.”
Celebrini also revealed that the Sharks are starting a new tradition for the player of the game, donning a shark jaw around his neck in a shirtless postgame interview — a departure from the random locker room items the team would award players before Tuesday night.
Celebrini now has 30 points on the 2025-26 NHL season, making him the fourth teenager to hit that mark in 20 games or fewer after Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby and Mario Lemieux. He also is one of just six players in NHL history with three or more hat tricks as a teen, with his previous coming on Oct. 23, 2025, against the New York Rangers and April 9, 2025, against the Minnesota Wild.
While Tuesday night’s might have been Celebrini’s most electric hat trick yet, it certainly won’t be his last.
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