{"id":454984,"date":"2026-02-11T23:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/454984\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:44:12","slug":"how-have-celebrini-sharks-adjusted-to-more-defensive-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/454984\/","title":{"rendered":"How Have Celebrini, Sharks Adjusted to More Defensive Attention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s arguably nobody more important to his team in the NHL than Macklin Celebrini is to the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini has 42 more points than second on the Sharks, Will Smith (39). To put that in perspective, that\u2019s the largest canyon between No. 1 to 2 scorer on a team, followed by MacKinnon\u2019s 31-point gap over Martin Necas (62) on the Colorado Avalanche and Kucherov\u2019s same differential over Jake Guentzel (60) on the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Safe to say, he\u2019s the focus of any gameplan against the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>So how have the Sharks and <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-defending-macklin-celebrini\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a> adjusted to all the defensive attention this season?<\/p>\n<p>First things first, Celebrini is simply better this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBigger, stronger, faster, more experienced,\u201d Panthers head coach Paul Maurice summarized in November.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini and the San Jose Sharks coaching staff have also put the franchise center in positions to succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s arguably nobody more important to his team in the NHL than Macklin Celebrini is to the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[4794,58,5,501,4,748,519,168,5306,5305,1780],"class_list":["post-454984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-defense","tag-featured","tag-hockey","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-sharks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116054659204518348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454984","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=454984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}