{"id":466078,"date":"2026-02-21T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/466078\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:54:32","slug":"macklin-celebrini-has-three-points-as-canada-beats-czechia-in-quarterfinals-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/466078\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini has three points as Canada beats Czechia in quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini\u2019s journey toward a gold medal<\/a> at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games continues. But just barely.<\/p>\n

In the biggest game of his life<\/a> so far, Celebrini had three points, including the primary assist on Mitch Marner\u2019s overtime winner as Canada earned a heartstopping 4-3 win over Czechia in the men\u2019s quarterfinals at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.<\/p>\n

In the 3-on-3 overtime, Celebrini sent a drop pass to Marner, who danced through three Czechia defenders \u2014 including former Sharks defenseman Radim Simek \u2014 before his backhand shot beat goalie Lukas Dostal.<\/p>\n

Marner\u2019s goal sent his teammates streaming onto the ice in celebration, and the Canadians into Friday\u2019s semifinals against Finland.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were so many moments in that game that were huge for our team,\u201d Marner said. \u201cSome big plays in that game, and lucky enough, I was able to just make one that finished it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Czechia led 3-2 after Ondrej\u00a0Palat\u00a0scored at the 12:18 mark of the third period. Canada center Nick Suzuki then tied the game 4:15 later, redirecting a shot from Devon Toews past Dostal.<\/p>\n

On his goal, Celebrini trailed Connor McDavid on a rush, took a back pass from the Edmonton Oilers superstar, and beat Dostal with a low snipe to give Canada a 1-0 lead 3:05 into the first period.<\/p>\n

Celebrini\u2019s goal gave him seven points for the tournament, passing Evgeni Malkin\u00a0for the most points by a teenager in a single Olympic tournament with NHL players. Malkin, the longtime Pittsburgh Penguins star, had six points in seven games for Russia during the 2006 Games in Turin, Italy.<\/p>\n

Celebrini\u2019s first assist came on a power play.<\/p>\n

Taking the place of Sidney Crosby, who was injured in the second period<\/a>, on Canada\u2019s first unit, Celebrini fed McDavid with a pass below the goal line. McDavid then sent a pass in front to Nathan MacKinnon, who beat Dostal from the slot area to tie the game 2-2 at the 12:16 mark of the second period.<\/p>\n

Celebrini\u2019s goal was the only highlight for Canada in an otherwise dreary first period.<\/p>\n

Just 5:29 after Celebrini\u2019s goal, Lukas Sedlak, stationed in front of the net, redirected a pass from Roman Cervenka past an out-of-position Jordan Binnington to tie the game 1-1.<\/p>\n

Then, with Celebrini serving an interference penalty, Czechia took a 2-1 lead as David Psstrnak one-timed a pass from Filip Hronek past Binnington with 5:11 left in the first period.<\/p>\n

Celebrini also became the fourth player to record a goal in four consecutive Olympic games featuring NHL players, joining Marian Hossa (2006 with Slovakia), former Shark Teemu Selanne (2006 with Finland), and Mats Sundin (2002 with Sweden).<\/p>\n

REGENDA LEADS SLOVAKIA INTO SEMIS<\/p>\n

Sharks winger Pavol Regenda will be playing for a medal after scoring his first two goals of the Olympics to help lead Slovakia to a 6-2 win over Germany in the first quarterfinal.<\/p>\n

Regenda opened the scoring at the 18:06 mark of the first period, and his second goal 58 seconds into the third period gave Slovakia a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Regenda is tied for third on Slovakia\u2019s roster in scoring with four points in four games.<\/p>\n

The semifinals are on Friday, and Slovakia will face the United States. The Bronze Medal game on Saturday and the Gold Medal game on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Regenda helped Slovakia win the Bronze Medal at the 2022 Games in Beijing.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing into the tournament, seeing the roster, I don\u2019t think anybody believed us,\u201d Regenda told reporters. \u201cAnd probably neither did we.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnderdogs can bite really hard, so we are really happy where we are right now. Top four, unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini\u2019s journey toward a gold medal at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[2616,2617,5,2614,1180,501,4,2602,519,168,5306,5305,2618,1780,2615,2619,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-466078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-inside-sports","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-macklin-celebrini","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-olympics","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-sharks","18":"tag-sanjose","19":"tag-sanjosesharks","20":"tag-santa-clara-county","21":"tag-sharks","22":"tag-sharks-alert","23":"tag-south-bay","24":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116110614994621241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466078","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=466078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}