{"id":536946,"date":"2026-04-02T17:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536946\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:35:35","slug":"celebrinis-four-point-night-leads-sharks-past-ducks-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536946\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrini&#8217;s four point night leads Sharks past Ducks 4-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER<\/p>\n<p>Macklin Celebrini\u2019s dream season continued with a game tying goal and game winning assist in the final 99 seconds to help the Sharks to an electrifying 4\u20133 win over the Pacific Division leading Anaheim Ducks Wednesday night, moving San Jose a step closer to an improbable playoff berth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aaa.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aaa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23526\"  \/><\/a>\u00a9DANIEL GLUSKOTER<br \/>San Jose\u2019s Adam Gaudette (81) and Macklin Celebrini (71) celebrate with Alexander Wennberg following Wennberg\u2019s game winning goal with 31 seconds remaining during the Sharks 4-3 win over the Anaheim Ducks Wednesday night at SAP Center.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini\u2019s goal at the 18:21 mark of the final period tied the game, and his assist on Alexander Wennberg\u2019s goal 68 seconds later with 31 seconds remaining won it, moving the Sharks within a point of the Los Angeles Kings for the Western Conference\u2019s second wild card slot with a game in hand as they try to return to the playoffs for the first time since the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p>With two goals and two assists in the game, the 19-year old Celebrini reached the 40 goal mark and now has 105 points on the season, only two points behind Jimmy Carson\u2019s 1987-88 season for the third most by a teenager in NHL history, and trailing only Wayne Gretzky\u2019s 137 in 1979-80 and Sidney Crosby\u2019s 120 in 2006-07.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/888.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/888.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23531\"  \/><\/a>\u00a9DANIEL GLUSKOTER<br \/>Anaheim\u2019s Beckett Sennecke and the Sharks Sam Dickinson crash into the boards during San Jose\u2019s 4-3 win over the Ducks Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like watching a god on ice,\u201d Sharks right wing Ryan Reaves said. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to watch. It\u2019s crazy the stuff he can do at 19. I\u2019ll be honest, though, half of my interviews this year has been about him, so it\u2019s kind of starting to wear me out a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Jose (35-31-7) has now won three in a row after losing six straight games. Anaheim (41-29-5) remains in first place in the Pacific Division  despite their third straight loss, holding a two-point lead over the Edmonton Oilers with seven games remaining for both teams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/www.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/www.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23528\"  \/><\/a>\u00a9DANIEL GLUSKOTER<br \/>Anaheim\u2019s Lukas Dostal corrals the puck during the Ducks 4-3 loss to the Sharks Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s just who (Celebrini) is, right? We were all frustrated with the losing streak and being ultra competitive, frustration wears on you,\u201d Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said. \u201cIt can kind of get you off kilter a little bit with your game, and not just individually, but as a group. And that happened, and we got it back on the rails. And Mack is a big reason for that. He drags a lot of guys into the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GAME NOTES:<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks are the first team in NHL history to win three consecutive games on game winning goals in the last 90 seconds of regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini became the first Shark with 40 goals since Joe Pavelski in 2013-14. He now has 105 points, the second most in a season in Sharks history behind Joe Thornton\u2019s 114 in the 2006-07 season.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini\u2019s 65 assists are the third most by a teenager in a single season. Only Wayne Gretzky (86 in 1979-80) and Sidney Crosby (84 in 2006-07) have more. His sixth career four point game is the fourth most in NHL history for a teenager behind Gretzky (14), Crosby (eight) and Dale Hawerchuk (seven).<\/p>\n<p>Center Will Smith had San Jose\u2019s first goal in addition to two assists for the third consecutive game.<\/p>\n<p>Goalie Yaroslav Askarov stopped 28 of 31 shots for the Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks played without their leading goal scorer, Cutter Gauthier, who suffered an upper-body injury during Monday\u2019s home loss to Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY DANIEL GLUSKOTER Macklin Celebrini\u2019s dream season continued with a game tying goal and game winning assist in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1698,2210,233,5292,1199,511,43445,1739,5,3041,501,4,748,1196,168,1125],"class_list":{"0":"post-536946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-alexander-wennberg","9":"tag-anaheim","10":"tag-anaheim-ducks","11":"tag-anaheimducks","12":"tag-beckett-sennecke","13":"tag-cutter-gauthier","14":"tag-daniel-gluskoter","15":"tag-ducks","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-lukas-dostal","18":"tag-macklin-celebrini","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","21":"tag-sam-dickinson","22":"tag-san-jose-sharks","23":"tag-yaroslav-askarov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116336324864930396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536946","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=536946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}