{"id":672075,"date":"2026-09-26T16:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/672075\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:12:15","slug":"macklin-celebrini-sharks-captain-decision-detailed-by-mike-grier-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/672075\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini Sharks captain decision detailed by Mike Grier \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more of his coverage on <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now<\/a>, listen to him on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/category\/san-jose-hockey-now-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now Podcast<\/a>, and follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheng_Peng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@Sheng_Peng<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Grier didn\u2019t know for sure that he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks\/macklin-celebrini-youngest-captain-franchise-history\/1966084\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">going to name Macklin Celebrini captain<\/a> of the San Jose Sharks until training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini, 20, was named the 11th full-time captain of the Sharks on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust an amazing honor,\u201d Celebrini said. \u201cI just feel privileged to be able to wear this jersey and be the captain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grier\u2019s decision was \u201ccemented\u201d over the last few months and camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was calling people on Draft night,\u201d the San Jose Sharks GM said about Celebrini calling first-round picks Ivar Stenberg, Keaton Verhoeff, and Ryan Lin after their selections. \u201cHe was organizing guys to come back to San Jose early to get ready for training camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini has kept leading, through Captain\u2019s Skates and the beginning of camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe older guys, we brought in some veteran guys who\u2019ve been leaders before and have a lot of experience, all those guys were naturally following Mack,\u201d Grier said, referring to 30-something newcomers like Mason Marchment, Darnell Nurse, and Jacob Trouba.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just how Celebrini treated his fellow headliners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4l4mpADVRh5IPCdD2uRw1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note: Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,501,747,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780,8246],"class_list":["post-672075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-hockey","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-mike-grier","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-sharks","tag-sharks-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117338226241814363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672075","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=672075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}