Logan Cooley completed a hat trick with one second left in regulation in his hometown, and the Utah Mammoth beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 in overtime on Thursday, October 29, 2026, at PPG Paints Arena. The Logan Cooley hat trick ended at 19:59 of the third period, batting a puck out of the air 24 seconds after Pittsburgh had taken the lead, in a finish the NHL record book has almost never seen.
FINAL: Utah Mammoth 4, Pittsburgh Penguins 3 (OT). Utah (9-5-0) has won three of its last five games, and Mikhail Sergachev scored the overtime winner at 3:27. Pittsburgh (5-6-2) had won two straight after losing its previous four, and Arturs Silovs made 30 saves in the loss.
How to watch: Utah Mammoth vs Pittsburgh Penguins, Thursday, October 29, 2026, 7:00 p.m. ET at PPG Paints Arena
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Logan Cooley Hat Trick Ends At 19:59, A Finish Seen 10 Times In NHL History
The ending is the record. Ben Kindel gave Pittsburgh a 3-2 lead at 19:35 of the third period, scoring with a backhand on a loose puck just outside the crease, and the Penguins were 25 seconds from a third straight win. Cooley answered at 19:59, tying the game 3-3 by batting a puck out of the air with his backhand from the left side of the net just before the clock expired. It was his seventh goal of the season and his sixth goal in four games, and it completed his fourth career hat trick in the NHL, his first since he scored four goals and added an assist in a 5-1 win against the Vegas Golden Knights on November 24, 2025.
The NHL recorded what that sequence means historically: this was only the 10th game in league history, in the regular season or the Stanley Cup Playoffs, in which teams traded a go-ahead goal and a game-tying goal in the final 30 seconds of regulation. It was the first such game since the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the New York Islanders 5-4 on April 7, 2015, more than a decade ago. Regular-season games are played by the thousands, and almost none of them end this way. A hat trick is a good night. A hat trick finished this way, at this second, in this building, is a line in the league record.
In overtime, Sergachev finished the job Cooley started. Barrett Hayton drove the play, Silovs stopped his shot, and Sergachev won it with a wrist shot from the slot off the rebound at 3:27. Sebastian Cossa made 31 saves for Utah in the win.
Two First-Period Goals In The Building Where He Learned The Game
The first two goals came early, and they came from the same script. At 4:40 of the first period, Cooley intercepted a pass from Erik Karlsson, skated through the high slot to the left face-off circle and scored with a wrist shot for a 1-0 lead. At 14:11, he split Karlsson and defenseman Spencer Stastney, raced to the net front and beat Silovs blocker side for a 2-0 lead. He had not scored in six previous games against Pittsburgh, the team he grew up watching, and he scored twice in ten minutes.
The hometown layer is not decoration on this story. Cooley is a Pittsburgh native, and at age 5 he took part in Sidney Crosby’s first Little Penguins Learn to Play Hockey program. He became the third Pittsburgh native ever to record a hat trick against the Penguins, joining Brandon Saad and R.J. Umberger. After the game, he described what the city and the team mean to him: “This city means so much to me. The Penguins, I’ve kind of grown up with them with (Pittsburgh Penguins) Elite and the Little Penguins program. To have a guy like Crosby here and what he’s done for this city, it’s cool to kind of lean on him as a young kid growing up here. They’ve been such an amazing team for so long, won (the Stanley Cup). And I was fortunate to be in the city, to be able to watch them every night. And, like I said, those are guys that I looked up to. I’m super fortunate to be from here and to be able to grow up through the Penguins organization.”
His teammates kept the praise in hockey terms. “He’s one of our top players who’s supposed to be doing that,” Sergachev said. “But I’m happy for him. He had a bit of a slow start, but he’s going to show everyone what kind of player he is. When he puts it all together, he’s what he is tonight.” Mammoth coach Andre Tourigny played it drier: “I think ‘Cools’ was alright. He was OK. OK, his goals, it’s part of it. It’s his work ethic, his mindset, his body language, his decisions with the puck. It’s where he tries to play with the puck. He was really good.”
Karlsson, Rakell And Kindel Built The Comeback Cooley Erased
Pittsburgh spent most of the night climbing back into this game, and the climb deserves its place in the record too. Karlsson cut the lead to 2-1 at 8:38 of the second period, stickhandling around Mammoth forward Nick Schmaltz for a wrist shot from the inner edge of the right circle. Rickard Rakell tied it 2-2 at 10:59 of the third with a short-handed goal, collecting the puck in the neutral zone after it got past Cooley at the point and scoring his third goal in four games on a wrist shot from the right circle.
Kindel’s go-ahead goal carried its own story. The 19-year-old forward was playing his first game back after experiencing vasovagal syncope, a sudden drop in heart rate and blood pressure that reduces blood flow to the brain, shortly after the Penguins departed Salt Lake City International Airport on October 20. He missed two games, returned against the team from the city where the scare happened, and finished with a goal and an assist, nearly as the hero. “I wouldn’t say any emotion,” Kindel said of his first game back. “It’s just nice to score a goal for the team and chip in when I can.” Evgeni Malkin had two assists for Pittsburgh, and his read on the collapse was blunt: “We need to play, like, so much harder, whole five guys. Yeah, it’s a little bit tough that we lost.” Defenseman Kris Letang added: “We battled hard to come back into it and get the lead. But I think, overall, the performance was not there.”
There were quieter milestones underneath the finish. Mammoth defenseman Artem Duda recorded four shots on goal and one block in 15:27 of ice time in his NHL debut, and Utah defenseman Andrew Peeke had one shot, one block and two hits in his 400th NHL game. Utah is also 5-0-0 after a loss this season, a pattern this game fit exactly after Tuesday’s 3-1 loss to the Minnesota Wild.
What The Finish Means For Utah And Pittsburgh
For Utah, this is the kind of road win a young team carries. The Mammoth gave back a 2-0 lead, gave back the game itself with 25 seconds left, and still left Pittsburgh with two points because their best young scorer refused the ending that had been written for him. Cooley now has six goals in four games, and the player Sergachev described as having a slow start is driving results in the loudest way available to a forward.
For Pittsburgh, the loss is one point taken and one point given away in the same minute. The Penguins did the hard part twice, erasing a two-goal deficit and then scoring the late go-ahead goal, and still could not close the final 25 seconds. Their schedule does not soften: Pittsburgh plays at Montreal on Saturday, October 31, while Utah continues its trip at Philadelphia on Sunday, November 1. The record from Thursday night, though, now belongs to the finish itself: a go-ahead goal at 19:35, a hat trick completed at 19:59, and only the 10th ending of its kind the NHL has ever recorded.
