At just 13 years old, Richard Junior \u201cRJ\u201d Celebrini is already turning heads. The youngest brother of Macklin, the San Jose Sharks\u2019 breakout star, is putting up eye-popping numbers with the North Shore Winter Club U14 team. 38 goals and 83 points in 30 games. At that age, production like that never goes unnoticed.<\/p>\n
The Celebrini family is stacked with phenomenal hockey talent. The eldest brother, Aiden, is a steady, no-nonsense defenseman currently playing NCAA hockey at Boston University and he\u2019s already a Vancouver Canucks prospect. <\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini, of course, paved the way by becoming the cornerstone of the Sharks\u2019 rebuild. If RJ keeps developing at this pace, he\u2019ll likely be eligible for the NHL Draft around 2030 or 2031. Nothing is guaranteed, but the spotlight is already creeping toward him.<\/p>\n
In an interview with the Spittin\u2019 Chiclets podcast, Macklin Celebrini didn\u2019t hesitate when asked about his younger brother and praised him and how good he is. Coming from a first-overall pick, those compliments carry weight. RJ, for his part, stays grounded. He loves his team, his dressing room, and the freedom to train whenever he wants. <\/p>\n
He once stated that his favourite NHL team is the Canucks, naturally seeing he\u2019s a Vancouver kid. And his dream is to make the NHL. And the best advice he\u2019s been given? \u201cGive everything 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n
All of this says a lot about who he is. The kid wants to follow in his brother\u2019s footsteps, but he knows nothing is promised. At 13, the road ahead is long and full of obstacles. Scouts, though, will be watching closely. With his level of production and a work-ethic-first mindset, RJ could very quickly become a name worth remembering.<\/p>\n
The talent is there and the passion too. If the progression continues, don\u2019t be surprised if all 32 NHL teams have him circled in their notebooks three or four years from now. For now, he\u2019s enjoying the game and that\u2019s exactly what he should be doing. When it comes to the future and the rest, that\u2019s for him to write his own story and for us to follow closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At just 13 years old, Richard Junior \u201cRJ\u201d Celebrini is already turning heads. The youngest brother of Macklin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[894,5,501,4,45977,45976,519,1780,893],"class_list":{"0":"post-340077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-macklin-celebrini","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-outshine","13":"tag-rj-celebrini","14":"tag-san-jose","15":"tag-sharks","16":"tag-vancouver"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115668344115532667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340077","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=340077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}