SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The multiyear rebuild era for the San Jose Sharks is complete.

After making a surprising push for the playoffs that lasted to the final week of the season, the young Sharks now appear poised to make that next step back to the postseason behind budding superstar Macklin Celebrini.

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