{"id":320631,"date":"2025-11-24T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/320631\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:02:11","slug":"macklin-celebrini-sharks-display-moment-of-growth-vs-bruins-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/320631\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini, Sharks display \u2018moment of growth\u2019 vs. Bruins \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note:\u00a0Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more of his coverage on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now<\/a>, listen to him on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/category\/san-jose-hockey-now-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now Podcast<\/a>, and follow him on Twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheng_Peng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@Sheng_Peng<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks are learning. Watch out, NHL.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks kept shooting themselves in the foot in a 3-2 loss to the Ottawa Senators, and worse than that, were outcompeted most of the night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery immature,\u201d head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-goodrow-klingberg-smith-locker-room\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Warsofsky<\/a> said tersely about that effort. \u201cVery uncompetitive when it came to puck battles, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warsofsky was far more pleased by the San Jose Sharks\u2019 effort on Sunday, a 3-1 victory over the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a pretty true and honest conversation in the morning [about the Sens game],\u201d Warsofsky said. \u201cThe response was one of the best of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In much the same way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/celebma01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a> is also learning.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to forget that the Sharks\u2019 best player is just 19.<\/p>\n<p>But Celebrini showed both maturity and compete tonight, when tasked with protecting a late one-goal lead against the Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>About three minutes to go in the game, Celebrini (71) has possession of the puck in the defensive zone. This might be a moment for him to go into attack mode.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4l4mpADVRh5IPCdD2uRw1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note:\u00a0Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,501,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780,6298],"class_list":{"0":"post-320631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-macklin-celebrini","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sanjose","14":"tag-sanjosesharks","15":"tag-sharks","16":"tag-sharks-analysis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115605519952402345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}