{"id":555520,"date":"2026-04-18T20:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555520\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:54:21","slug":"san-jose-sharks-macklin-celebrini-open-to-signing-new-deal-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555520\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks&#8217; Macklin Celebrini open to signing new deal this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2013 San Jose Sharks leading scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/04\/17\/macklin-celebrini-sets-the-bar-high-for-next-seasons-sharks-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a> will likely be one of the NHL\u2019s highest-paid players by the time the 2027-28 season begins.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just a question of when Celebrini and the Sharks can come to an agreement<a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/player\/macklin-celebrini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> on a contract extension,<\/a> whether that\u2019s this offseason or sometime next year.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stats\/skaters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL\u2019s fourth-leading scorer,<\/a> Celebrini said Saturday that he\u2019s open to signing a contract extension as soon as this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks and Celebrini can sign a new deal as soon as July 1, as the soon-to-be 20-year-old centerman enters the final year of his three-year entry contract in 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>Two days removed from breaking Joe Thornton\u2019s single-season scoring record with 115 points in 82, Celebrini said he hasn\u2019t thought too deeply about his next contract.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last offseason that players re-signing with their own teams can ink eight-year contract extensions. Starting in mid-September, when the new collective bargaining agreement fully takes effect, the maximum contract length will be seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back for updates to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 San Jose Sharks leading scorer Macklin Celebrini will likely be one of the NHL\u2019s highest-paid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,62757,4,60,519,168,5306,5305,1780,104,2181],"class_list":{"0":"post-555520","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-macklin-celebrini-mike-grier","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-playoffs","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-sharks","14":"tag-sanjose","15":"tag-sanjosesharks","16":"tag-sharks","17":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","18":"tag-world-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116427703171102043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555520","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=555520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}