Is Sharks’ Macklin Celebrini going from rookie to superstar? – NBC Sports Bay Area & California

MINNEAPOLIS — This was going to be another story about the Sharks blowing a third-period lead and losing the game.

But instead, improbably, Macklin Celebrini saved the day for a 6-5 overtime victory.

What’s clear though, the Sharks still are shooting themselves in the foot, in their quest to play winning hockey.

Up 2-0 and dominating the first period, Vincent Iorio took a high sticking penalty that led to a Marcus Johansson power play goal. Thirty-two seconds later, an unforced error on a Tyler Toffoli-Vincent Desharnais puck exchange led to a 2-on-1 Marco Rossi strike.

“We woke them up. That was our own doing,” Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said. “That’s one big lesson.”

This same pattern repeated itself in the third period.

First, credit the Sharks for sticking at it, and regaining their lead.

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