{"id":379185,"date":"2025-12-31T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379185\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:29:13","slug":"report-celebrini-going-to-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379185\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Celebrini Going to Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macklin Celebrini has made the Canadian Olympic team, per Emily Kaplan of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With Olympic rosters due tomorrow, USA Hockey &amp; Team Canada will call players in the morning. <\/p>\n<p>Expect similar American roster to Four Nations; hearing small tweaks. Macklin Celebrini made Canada then we\u2019ll see on Connor Bedard, who was just on the outside throughout the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emily Kaplan (@emilymkaplan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilymkaplan\/status\/2006142112299876544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise, if you\u2019ve watched Celebrini\u2019s entire season with the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Probably on the outside looking in for a roster spot at the start of the year, the 19-year-old centerman has dragged the San Jose Sharks to a wild card berth, his 60 points third in the NHL behind soon-to-be Olympic teammates Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon. Celebrini\u2019s 21 goals and 39 assists means that he\u2019s been directly involved in 50.4 percent of his team\u2019s total offense.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini is also a legitimate two-way forward: According to Stathletes, his 79 Puck Battles Won leads all NHL forwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we do need to understand, we are seeing something pretty special right now before our eyes. I know our fans see it, and the rest of NHL sees it,\u201d San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said on Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s my first go through of seeing, really, a player becoming great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Canada is seeing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>The Hart Trophy candidate\u2019s speed, strength, compete, and defensive awareness make him a versatile addition to any team. The center also impressed playing the wing for Canada at the 2025 World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Sharks superstar\u2019s age was perhaps the only reason why there was any doubt about Celebrini\u2019s inclusion onto the team. Celebrini is set to become the first NHL teenager that Canada will send to the Olympics, since NHL\u2019ers began participating in the Olympics in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>No less than future Olympic teammate Sidney Crosby, passed over by Canada as a teenager for the 2006 Olympics, called Celebrini \u201cone of the best in the league\u201d three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will officially announce their roster at 9 AM PT on Wednesday. The Olympics begin on Feb. 6.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini has made the Canadian Olympic team, per Emily Kaplan of ESPN. With Olympic rosters due tomorrow,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[161684,13541,49,48,12428,60,30737,48001,13629,150213,764,20710,82],"class_list":["post-379185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-olympics","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-featured","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-roster","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}