{"id":536664,"date":"2026-04-02T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:25:15","slug":"sharks-macklin-celebrini-is-breaking-wayne-gretzkys-all-time-nhl-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536664\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks&#8217; Macklin Celebrini is breaking Wayne Gretzky&#8217;s all-time NHL record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macklin Celebrini is about to break a Wayne Gretzky all-time NHL record.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s harder to have a more impressive sentence than that in all of hockey.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>&#8216; 19-year old is set to surpass Gretzky&#8217;s mark for point share while still a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Celebrini has points on 47.3% of the Sharks&#8217; goals.<\/p>\n<p>Gretzky set the record with points on 45.5% of the Oilers&#8217; goals in 1979-80, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Macklin Celebrini has points on 47.3% of goals for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#SJSharks<\/a>. Only Connor McDavid is higher this season at 47.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini has the highest share ever for a teenager. Wayne Gretzky had points on 45.5% of Oilers goals in 1979-80<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Dubow (@JoshDubowAP) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshDubowAP\/status\/2039556132788973701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/washington-capitals\/news\/capitals-alex-ovechkin-snaps-unfathomable-streak-retirement-update-elliotte-friedman\/b24f46ef2e3f4387e0b6fabe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Ovechkin snaps an unfathomable streak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that this statistic also requires the lines that take the ice when Celebrini isn&#8217;t on it to not be particularly efficient. If a team has multiple strong lines, it&#8217;s harder for one player to rack up this level of points share.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Celebrini has been immensely impressive, including at the Olympics in the middle of the season with Team Canada.<\/p>\n<p>For the Sharks, Celebrini has 40 goals and 65 assists (105 points) in 73 games.<\/p>\n<p>Their team slowed down in the win column in the second half of the season, but Celebrini didn&#8217;t really slow down. It&#8217;s clear that San Jose has the face of their franchise for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini is about to break a Wayne Gretzky all-time NHL record. It&#8217;s harder to have a more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780],"class_list":{"0":"post-536664","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\/116335576913497517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536664","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=536664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}