{"id":550175,"date":"2026-04-11T08:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550175\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:48:18","slug":"what-nothing-celebrini-defensive-play-did-warsofsky-celebrate-like-big-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550175\/","title":{"rendered":"What &#8220;Nothing&#8221; Celebrini Defensive Play Did Warsofsky Celebrate Like &#8220;Big Goal&#8221;? (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macklin Celebrini is going to win a lot of hockey games one day.<\/p>\n<p>And not just because of his offensive skill, which is staggering. The 19-year-old has already posted the third-most prolific season for a teenager in NHL history with 108 points. With four games left this season, he\u2019s trying to break Joe Thornton\u2019s San Jose Sharks franchise record for most points in a year, 114 in 2006-07.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also because of how he thinks the game.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Ryan Warsofsky has seen Celebrini\u2019s defensive mind-set over the last two years, and even he\u2019s still pleasantly surprised at times by his franchise center\u2019s rapid growth.<\/p>\n<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-eklund-smith-sherwood-locker-room\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> edged the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 on Monday, Warsofsky went out of his way to praise Celebrini\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the third period, probably a nothing play to you guys, but Mack\u2019s underneath a wall battle on the defensive side,\u201d Warsofsky said. \u201cI was celebrating like it was a big goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What was this \u201cnothing play\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Warsofsky shared it with San Jose Hockey Now recently.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey Tactics 2026 author <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JhanHky\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jack Han<\/a> also added his thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini is going to win a lot of hockey games one day. And not just because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[96,508,58,5,39977,501,4,748,519,168,5306,5305,1780,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-550175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","9":"tag-connor-bedard","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-jack-han","13":"tag-macklin-celebrini","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-sharks","18":"tag-sanjose","19":"tag-sanjosesharks","20":"tag-sharks","21":"tag-sjhn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116385212234498609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550175","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=550175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}