{"id":579882,"date":"2026-04-03T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579882\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:17:07","slug":"nhl-edge-stats-celebrini-building-case-for-hart-trophy-with-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579882\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL EDGE stats: Celebrini building case for Hart Trophy with Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose has been the most-improved team in the\u00a0NHL (plus-16 wins) this season thanks to Celebrini\u2019s prowess and the rest of the Sharks\u2019 promising young core, which includes forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/will-smith-8484227\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith<\/a> (No. 4 pick in 2023 NHL Draft), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/william-eklund-8482667\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Eklund<\/a> (No. 7 pick in 2021 NHL Draft), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/collin-graf-8484911\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collin Graf<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/michael-misa-8485402\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Misa<\/a> (No. 2 pick in 2025 NHL Draft). The Sharks have four 20-goal scorers, including Celebrini (40 goals), his most-frequent linemate Smith (22 goals; 21 years old), Graf (20 goals; 23 years old) and in-season trade acquisition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/kiefer-sherwood-8480748\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiefer Sherwood<\/a> (21; 31 years old).<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini is on pace to surpass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/joe-thornton-8466138\" title=\"Joe Thornton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Thornton<\/a>\u00a0(114 in 2006-07) for the Sharks\u2019 single-season points record and has factored in on 46.5 percent of San Jose\u2019s goals this season, second-most in the NHL behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/connor-mcdavid-8478402\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McDavid<\/a> (47.7) of the Oilers. Celebrini is on pace for the highest percentage of a team\u2019s goals in a season ever by a teenager (Gretzky has record at 45.5 in 1979-80).<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini has had many offensive outbursts this season; he\u2019s among the NHL leaders in multipoint games (28; tied for sixth), three-point games (17; third) and four-point games (five; tied for third). With six career four-point games through his first two NHL seasons, Celebrini ranks fourth among teenagers in history behind Gretzky (14), Crosby (eight) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dale-hawerchuk-8447685\" title=\"Dale Hawerchuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dale Hawerchuk<\/a>\u00a0(seven).<\/p>\n<p>Here are three underlying reasons Celebrini can win the Hart Trophy this season:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose has been the most-improved team in the\u00a0NHL (plus-16 wins) this season thanks to Celebrini\u2019s prowess and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-579882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579882","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=579882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}