SALT LAKE CITY – Despite a valiant individual comeback effort by JJ Peterka, the Utah Mammoth lost their third straight in OT as young star Macklin Celebrini delivered the game-winner and a hat-trick for the San Jose Sharks.

Here are the key takeaways from Utah’s 3-2 OT loss in San Jose.

The Utah Mammoth are making far too many costly mistakes defensively

Coming into the matchup with San Jose, the Utah Mammoth had allowed the fourth fewest shots on goal in the NHL over the previous three games (66).

However, despite heavily limiting their opponents and also outshooting them during that same stretch (84-66), the Mammoth only won one of those three as they made a collection of costly mistakes in their own zone.

Unfortunately for Utah, things only got worse against the Sharks as they ye

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