{"id":469536,"date":"2026-02-24T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/469536\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:59:14","slug":"sharks-macklin-celebrini-gets-11-6-million-record-setting-contract-update-after-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/469536\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks&#8217; Macklin Celebrini gets $11.6 million record-setting contract update after Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macklin Celebrini was already taking the hockey world by storm as a 19-year old for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then he led the Winter Olympics in goals for Team Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The only negative for Celebrini is that he came home with a silver medal, not a gold.<\/p>\n<p>That won&#8217;t stop him from hurtling toward a record-setting contract extension with the San Jose Sharks as soon as he&#8217;s eligible.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/olympics\/news\/jack-hughes-scores-team-usa-biggest-mens-hockey-goal-46-years\/56217afd566b595213814bf4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jack Hughes, not a miracle, just magic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ade780\/status\/2026094840048677091\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeffery Ade of Heavy Hockey Network<\/a> laid it out in a couple of posts on X on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The starting point is that Celebrini is making $975,000 on his entry-level contract, both this year and next year.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s eligible for an extension on July 1, 2026, and it&#8217;s safe to say the Sharks won&#8217;t wait long to give him one.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, it&#8217;s all about how much Celebrini increases from his entry-level contract to his extension price.<\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid increased $11.575 million from his entry-level contract to his first extension.<\/p>\n<p>That means Celebrini essentially needs an increase of $11.6 million on his extension to set a new record in that category.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a given, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/olympics\/news\/team-usa-honored-johnny-gaudreau-golden-son-johnny-jr-2nd-birthday\/aefc626d035cc6f43dc96201\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Team USA honors Johnny Gaudreau in special way after gold medal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technically, the Sharks still will have some negotiating power when Celebrini first becomes eligible, but it doesn&#8217;t do them any good to play hardball.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a chance Celebrini blows this record out of the water. He&#8217;s the future face of the NHL. Almost no price would be too high.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini likely has other records in his future, too, but this would be a good place to start.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini was already taking the hockey world by storm as a 19-year old for the San Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780],"class_list":{"0":"post-469536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-sharks","12":"tag-sanjose","13":"tag-sanjosesharks","14":"tag-sharks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116125732950256118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469536","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=469536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}