Sharks’ Macklin Celebrini on pace to shatter Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
It’s Macklin Celebrini’s world and we’re all just living in it.
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The San Jose Sharks‘ second-year player continues to be an absolute rising superstar, and along the way, he’s joining all kinds of exclusive NHL history lists.
The latest is one in which Celebrini is on pace to shatter a record currently held by Wayne Gretzky.
This stat: Percentage of team goals that a player factors in on as a teenager in a season.
That means you take the total team goals, then figure out what percentage were either scored or assisted by a given player.
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Sidney Crosby currently ranks second in NHL history in this stat, at 44.9% in the 2006-07 season.
Gretzky holds the record, at 45.5% in the 1979-80 season.
Celebrini is currently at 50.8% for the season.
Maybe that says something negative about the Sharks.
It also says something immensely positive about the brilliance of Celebrini.
Through 40 games now, Celebrini has 62 points. That’s 22 goals and 40 assists.
He isn’t slowing down. He had a goal and an assist in the Sharks’ most recent game, a shootout win over the Wild.
They’re back in action Saturday against the Lightning. Celebrini very likely will score again.
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