{"id":397419,"date":"2026-01-08T11:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397419\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:43:25","slug":"kings-lose-late-lead-and-are-defeated-by-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397419\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings lose late lead and are defeated by Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan. 7, 2026 11:05 PM PT <\/p>\n

William Eklund scored 3:08 into overtime, Macklin Celebrini had the tying goal and two assists to extend his point streak to 12 games, and the San Jose Sharks defeated the Kings 4-3<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Celebrini evened the score at 3 with 1:07 remaining in regulation. He deked his way past Warren Foegele and sent a wrist shot through traffic that beat goalie Darcy Kuemper through the legs for his 24th goal this season. The 19-year-old center has nine goals and 15 assists during his point streak.<\/p>\n

Celebrini is tied for the third-longest point streak by a teenager in NHL history \u2014 joining Joe Sakic in 1988-89, Jimmy Carson in 1987-88 and Wayne Gretzky in 1979-80 \u2014 and the third-longest point streak in Sharks history.<\/p>\n

Tyler Toffoli and Adam Gaudette each had a goal, Yaroslav Askarov made 23 saves and the Sharks won for the fifth time in six games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alex Turcotte and Kevin Fiala each had a goal and an assist for the Kings<\/a>, who still haven\u2019t won three straight games since winning four in a row in mid-November. Alex Laferriere also scored and Kuemper made 24 saves.<\/p>\n

Laferriere put the Kings ahead with 2:10 left in the third period, but they couldn\u2019t prevent another sensational play by the electric Celebrini.<\/p>\n

The Kings were without four forwards, including stalwart center and team captain Anze Kopitar, who is day-to-day after sustaining a lower-body injury in a win over Minnesota on Monday. Those absences led the Kings to play with 11 forwards and seven defensemen.<\/p>\n

Sharks center Ty Dellandrea is week-to-week after sustaining a lower-body injury against Columbus on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 7, 2026 11:05 PM PT William Eklund scored 3:08 into overtime, Macklin Celebrini had the tying goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[10969,9172,8267,17920,6605,654,436,5,816,186,1760,240,5303,47006,793,145,5304,5302,8781,50418,161,4,8350,12786,1780],"class_list":["post-397419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-kings","tag-alex-laferriere","tag-alex-turcotte","tag-assist","tag-celebrini","tag-forward","tag-game","tag-goal","tag-hockey","tag-king","tag-kings","tag-la","tag-la-kings","tag-lakings","tag-late-lead","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleskings","tag-lower-body-injury","tag-mid-november","tag-minnesota","tag-nhl","tag-point-streak","tag-save","tag-sharks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115859305751500731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397419","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=397419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}