The San Jose Sharks ended a month’s worth of frustration on Thursday as Will Smith scored at the 1:38 mark of overtime to give his team a thrilling 6-5 win over the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
Macklin Celebrini recorded his second career NHL hat trick and finished with five points, as he assisted on Smith’s second goal of the game, which set off a wild celebration.
Celebrini stole the puck from defensemen Braden Schneider in the corner to the left of the Rangers, took a stride, and fed Smith with a cross-ice pass for a one-timer that beat Igor Shesterkin.
Celebrini scored twice in the first period and completed the hat trick with 8.3 seconds left in the second period, taking a pass from Will Smith and beating Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin to tie the game 4-4. Smith then scored his first goal of the season, right after a Sharks power play had expired, with 13:29 left in regulation time to give the Sharks a 5-4 lead.
But Taylor Raddysh completed his own hat-trick with 8:10 left to go in the third period to tie the game 5-5,
Center Adam Gaudette also scored for the Sharks, William Eklund had three assists, and goalie Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 22 of 27 shots as the Sharks fell to 0-5-2 on the season and remained the NHL’s last winless team.
Celebrini’s first career hat trick came at the end of his rookie season on April 9 against the Minnesota Wild. He also had two assists in that game in an 8-7 loss to the host Wild.
With his performance on Thursday, Celebrini, 19, became just the third NHL player in the past 32 years with multiple hat tricks as a teenager.
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Originally Published: October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM PDT