{"id":556057,"date":"2026-04-19T14:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556057\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:27:28","slug":"sharks-macklin-celebrini-gets-21-1-million-contract-update-after-historic-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556057\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks&#8217; Macklin Celebrini gets $21.1 million contract update after historic season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macklin Celebrini is eligible to sign a contract extension this summer with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If that happens, it&#8217;s almost certainly going to be a doozy.<\/p>\n<p>One chart shows that Celebrini&#8217;s market value is more than $21 million, and that there are paths to him getting even more than that on a yearly basis:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">yup <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4CGq0ERxU6\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/4CGq0ERxU6<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dr0NRtfrEz\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Dr0NRtfrEz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 dom \ud83d\udcc8 (@domluszczyszyn) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/domluszczyszyn\/status\/2045614743377899848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/minnesota-wild\/news\/wild-kirill-kaprizov-passes-wayne-gretzky-nhl-playoff-history\/8d4e38e5fb5238e17b4f42b1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kirill Kaprizov broke a Wayne Gretzky NHL record<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrini is a historic player. He just finished the season with the third-most points by a 19-year old in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>The two players ahead of Celebrini in those all-time ranks? Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini also already proved himself on the Olympic stage by leading Canada in goals in Milan, so there&#8217;s really no doubt that he&#8217;s the league&#8217;s next absolute superstar.<\/p>\n<p>Some of his Canadian teammates were saying that Celebrini might already be the best player in the world &#8212; and if he isn&#8217;t, that he would be soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/news\/flyers-porter-martone-makes-most-hockey-unique-pipeline-timing\/6d33c980d56c6924a6d72d31\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Porter Martone makes the most of hockey&#8217;s unique timeline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The good news for the Sharks on all of this is that Celebrini seems open to the idea of signing some kind of deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to commit to this team and being here,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sheng_Peng\/status\/2045600816858333524\" rel=\"nofollow\">Celebrini told reporters<\/a>. &#8220;I love it here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sure, San Jose is going to have to give him a huge payday. But he&#8217;s worth it, and he&#8217;s the kind of player you keep around for as long as you can.<\/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 eligible to sign a contract extension this summer with the San Jose Sharks. If that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381446,"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-556057","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\/116431843707344801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556057","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=556057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}