Macklin Celebrini becomes sixth teenager to score 100 points in NHL season
San Jose Sharks ahead Macklin Celebrini grew to become the sixth teenager in NHL historical past to file 100 points in a single season when he put up three points towards the St. Louis Blues on Monday.
With his help and purpose in the primary interval, Celebrini grew to become the primary teen to hit the century mark since Sidney Crosby with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2006-07. Crosby, to whom Celebrini is commonly in contrast, is the one participant to attain that degree twice earlier than he turned 20. Celebrini now has 38 targets and 63 assists in 72 video games this season.
Celebrini, who turns 20 on June 13, joined a gaggle that features Crosby, Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Dale Hawerchuk and Jimmy Carson. Gretzky additionally scored 104 points in 72 video games with the Edmonton Oilers in the World Hockey Association throughout his age-18 season, earlier than the Oilers merged into the NHL.
A 3rd-place finisher for the Calder Trophy as a rookie final season, Celebrini has moved into league-wide stardom. Only two different Sharks — Joe Thornton in 2006-07 and Erik Karlsson in 2022-23 — have scored greater than 100 points for the membership in a single season.
Thornton had a mixed whole of 125 points with the Sharks and Boston Bruins in 2005-06 and was the one Hart Trophy winner to play for 2 totally different groups in a single 12 months. Celebrini has emerged as a Hart candidate in a 12 months when he has usually carried San Jose — which completed final in the NHL in 2023-24 and 2024-25 — into shocking playoff competition for a lot of the season. Celebrini has scored twice as many points as the subsequent highest Sharks participant (Will Smith has 49).
Other NHL youngsters to attain 100 points
PLAYER | TEAM | SEASON | GOALS | ASSISTS | POINTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wayne Gretzky | Oilers | 1979-80 | 51 | 86 | 137 |
Sidney Crosby | penguins | 2006-07 | 36 | 84 | 120 |
Jimmy Carson | Kings | 1987-88 | 55 | 52 | 107 |
Dale Hawerchuk | Jets | 1981-82 | 45 | 58 | 103 |
Sidney Crosby | penguins | 2005-06 | 39 | 63 | 102 |
Mario Lemieux | penguins | 1984-85 | 43 | 57 | 100 |
Celebrini has one 12 months remaining on his entry-level contract, however he will probably be eligible for an extension on July 1. The Sharks determine to be keen to negotiate with their star and get him signed for eight years earlier than September, when the brand new collective bargaining settlement takes impact and limits re-signings to seven years.
When requested in March about Celebrini’s looming second contract and its potential value, Sharks common supervisor Mike Grier quipped, “I don’t want to think about the number.”
After a nine-game level streak to begin March, Celebrini went right into a uncommon dry spell, with only one help over a five-game span. He snapped out of that Saturday in a 3-2 street win over the Columbus Blue Jackets, scoring his thirty sixth purpose and including an help for his twenty sixth multi-point effort of the season.
