{"id":438587,"date":"2026-01-28T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438587\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:13:07","slug":"celebrini-has-4-points-sharks-cruise-to-victory-against-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438587\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrini has 4 points, Sharks cruise to victory against Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Willander<\/a> and Filip Hronek<\/a> scored, and Elias Pettersson<\/a> and Jake DeBrusk<\/a> each had two assists for the Canucks (17-31-5), who have lost three in a row since ending an 11-game skid, and are 1-12-2 in their past 15. Kevin Lankinen<\/a> allowed three goals on six shots before being replaced at 5:55 of the first period by Nikita Tolopilo<\/a>, who made 25 saves in relief.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think we played good anywhere today,\u201d Willander said. \u201cI think pretty much every detail was bad; can’t name anything good today. At least the last few times we had results like this, I think we did a decent job in many parts of our game. But today, I thought, was awful.”<\/p>\n

Willander gave Vancouver a 1-0 lead at 1:15 of the first period with the teams playing 4-on-4, scoring with a high glove shot from the top of the face-off circles past a screened Askarov.<\/p>\n

Celebrini tied it 1-1 just 36 seconds later at 1:51 with the teams still at 4-on-4, one-timing a pass from Smith along the left boards against the grain and past the blocker of Lankinen from the top of the right face-off circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt happened so fast you can’t really get put your head up and try to read it. You just try to put it over the pad or pick a nice spot,\u201d Celebrini said. \u201cWe kind of woke up a little bit. It’s pretty quick, when they scored, and I think we just kind of wanted to get to our game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adam Gaudette<\/a> put San Jose ahead 2-1 at 4:43 with a one-timer high over Lankinen\u2019s blocker. Celebrini intercepted a Hronek clearing attempt at the blue line and passed to William Eklund<\/a> at the right hash mark for a quick, short pass to Gaudette at the left hash mark.<\/p>\n

Tyler Toffoli<\/a> extended it to 3-1 at 5:55 on another one-timer from the left hash mark, finishing a pass from Alexander Wennberg<\/a> at the goal line with a shot between Lankinen\u2019s pads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s what we’ve done a really good job of this year is when teams kind of push back on us, or try to get on their front foot, we do a good job of just kind of handling it, weathering it, and getting back to our game,\u201d Celebrini said.<\/p>\n

Tolopilo, called up from Abbotsford of the American Hockey League on Saturday, then replaced Lankinen. He made several quality saves before Smith\u2019s power-play goal pushed it 4-0 at 9:07 on a wrist shot short side from the left face-off dot over Tolopilo\u2019s right shoulder.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know what could happen in the game, so just prepare a plan. When you go in, do your job,\u201d Tolopilo said. \u201cOverall I had an OK game. Of course, there are some things to work on and probably the first goal, I could play a little bit differently. Just going to look at it and take some things and try to clean up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Willander and Filip Hronek scored, and Elias Pettersson and Jake DeBrusk each had two assists for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-438587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438587","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=438587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}