{"id":554594,"date":"2026-04-17T14:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554594\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:42:28","slug":"macklin-celebrini-breaks-sharks-single-season-points-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554594\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini breaks Sharks single-season points record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his 113th, 114th and 115th points of the season on Thursday against the Winnipeg Jets, Celebrini capped his sensational sophomore campaign by breaking the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"san-jose-sharks\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/san-jose-sharks\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> franchise record for most points in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini took the record from Sharks legend Joe Thornton, who recorded 114 points in the 2006-07 season. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike Thornton, who piled up 92 assists with just 22 goals in his record-setting season, Celebrini took a more balanced approach this year. <\/p>\n<p>With a goal and two assists against the Jets, the 19-year-old Celebrini will finish the season with 45 goals and 70 assists. <\/p>\n<p>Celebrini joined Wayne Gretzky as the only teenagers in NHL history with at least 40 goals and 70 assists in a season, per ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a significant increase from Celebrini&#8217;s rookie season when he had in 25 goals and 38 assists in 70 games. <\/p>\n<p>Despite Celebrini&#8217;s best efforts, the Sharks fell just short in the race for a playoff spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>But if his record-setting season was any indication, the future looks bright in San Jose. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With his 113th, 114th and 115th points of the season on Thursday against the Winnipeg Jets, Celebrini capped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554595,"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-554594","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\/116420578096499736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554594","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=554594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}