SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Hockey Club coach André Touigny’s voice cracked. Was it anger? Frustration? Sadness? All of the above?

His team led the San Jose Sharks 4-1 with less than five minutes remaining. Somehow, Utah lost 5-4 in overtime.

Fabian Zetterlund and Mikael Granlund scored 25 seconds apart, leading to Tyler Toffoli’s snap with 2:42 left in regulation time. It was three goals in about two minutes for a team that hadn’t won a game all season — at least not until Monday.

Alexander Wennberg capped the improbable comeback with a power-play goal in overtime.

What seemed like a sure victory for Utah (4-4-2) quickly turned into an embarrassing defeat.

“I can’t do it,” Tourigny said when asked to explain what happened in the last five minutes. “Let’s give them credit, they put the pucks on net. They got their bounces. The way we played in the third period is hard to explain.”

In addition to the coach, it was up to the only 24-year-old Matias Maccelli to put the collapse into words. It should have been a festive evening for the Finnish attacker. He scored two goals in the first two periods and had the Delta Center crowd on its feet every time he touched the puck, hoping to see the franchise’s first hat trick.

Instead, he ended up in an empty locker room, in front of the media trying to explain what had just happened.

“This sucks. It’s frustrating. You’re up by three goals in the last four minutes, and they just got two good shots through a screen, and the last one we blocked, and they got a good rebound, but yeah, yeah just frustrating Maccelli said.

Tourigny said the breakdown was “100% mental”.

“It started with a goal in the neutral zone, then they had two scoring chances,” he said. “Then their face in our zone, then their goalie pulling back and scoring on that play. It was a snowball effect.”

A snowball that headed straight into extra time, where even the most optimistic fan would have had a hard time believing the team could recover enough to pull out a win.

“As a coach, we have to own it, and the leadership (group) has to own it too,” Tourigny said. “What happened there is unacceptable, it’s shameful.”

The fans certainly thought so too. After the winning goal, some trash was thrown from the stands (no one reached the ice) as the once festive crowd expressed its displeasure.

Tourigny even warned his team against this kind of defeat. San Jose was looking for its first win of the year; it was a desperate team and he knew the dangers of underestimating those types of opponents, having been on that side of the glass before.

“They are professionals, they are proud athletes and they want to get started,” he said before the match. “I’ve been in their shoes. I know exactly what it is and we’ve surprised a lot of teams, so we don’t want to be one of them.”

At least early on, they heeded the warning.

After his own shot went out of frame moments earlier, Clayton Keller made a pass to Dylan Guenther, who fired in his sixth goal of the season to give Utah a 1-0 lead at the 11 a.m. mark of the first period.

A few minutes later, Maccelli stormed the net for a rebound, dropping to his knees as he picked up the puck and backhanded it in for his first goal of the season. He didn’t have to wait long to get his second one – and it was almost a copy.

In the middle period, Maccelli deflected Ian Cole’s shot and delivered a top-shelf backhand for his second score of the match. The goal came in response to San Jose Fabian Zerrerlund’s backhand shot at the other end, giving Utah a 3-1 lead.

Mikhail Sergachev’s blueliner lob later in the period gave Utah a seemingly insurmountable lead.

That is, until San Jose proved that was anything but the case.

So where does Utah go from here?

“Before we go any further, I think we need to unpack that,” Tourigny said. “I think that’s not who we are, and that’s not how we want to be. It’s at home, in front of our fans; credit to San Jose, like I said, but we don’t want to be like that. You have that kind of of an edge. It’s not the way we want to play, it’s not who we want to be.”