{"id":464844,"date":"2026-02-20T19:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/464844\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:26:13","slug":"macklin-celebrini-assists-on-canadas-game-winner-vs-finland-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/464844\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini assists on Canada\u2019s game-winner vs. Finland \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Canada is one win away from Olympic gold, and Macklin Celebrini played a crucial role in that on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The young Sharks star had the secondary assist on Nathan MacKinnon&#8217;s game-winning goal with 36 seconds remaining that secured Canada&#8217;s incredible 3-2 comeback win over Finland in the semifinal game of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini was cornered in with less than 40 seconds left in regulation but found Connor McDavid who swung it over to MacKinnon for the game-winning play.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old finished a team-high 25:53 of ice time and eight shots on goal.<\/p>\n<p>He also played just over 18 minutes of the final 40 minutes for Team Canada (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/reporterchris\/status\/2024912873550467477\" rel=\"nofollow\">h\/t Chris Johnston<\/a>) as the team came from behind, down 2-0, to pull out the thrilling comeback victory.<\/p>\n<p>Through five 2026 Olympics games,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihf.com\/en\/events\/2026\/olympic-m\/skaters\/scoringleaders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrini has five goals<\/a>\u00a0and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>Canada now will face USA or Slovakia, who play a later semifinal matchup on Sunday at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Canada is one win away from Olympic gold, and Macklin Celebrini played a crucial role in that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[4772,5,501,4,2602,519,168,5306,5305,1780],"class_list":["post-464844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-hockey","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-nhl","tag-olympics","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-sharks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116104605953676713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464844","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=464844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}