{"id":114320,"date":"2025-12-31T01:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/114320\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:10:08","slug":"san-jose-sharks-macklin-celebrini-has-made-canadian-olympic-team-per-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/114320\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks&#8217; Macklin Celebrini has made Canadian Olympic team, per ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2013 The Olympic dreams of San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emilymkaplan\/status\/2006142112299876544?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">are reportedly coming true.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After an electrifying<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/12\/30\/sharks-takeaways-celebrinis-closing-argument-askarovs-adventure-chernyshov-staying-put\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> first half of the season,<\/a> Celebrini has made the Canadian team\u2019s roster for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/espn\/status\/2006152318102761731\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to ESPN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/articles\/nhl\/new-years-eve-olympic-hockey-roster-deadline-gives-contenders-more-time-for-tough-decisions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12 countries participating<\/a> in the Olympic men\u2019s tournament, which begins in February, have to submit their 25-man rosters by Wednesday. The Canadian team, which will feature many of the NHL\u2019s best players, will be formally announced on Wednesday at 9 a.m. (PST).<\/p>\n<p>Per ESPN, players named to the Canadian and American teams will be informed by their respective federations on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Celebrini, who is expected to be the youngest player on the Canadian team, entered Tuesday as the NHL\u2019s third-leading scorer with 60 points in 39 games, trailing only Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid (69) and Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon (66).<\/p>\n<p>With 21 goals and 39 assists, Celebrini has been involved in exactly half of the Sharks\u2019 120 goals this season, as he\u2019s led San Jose to a 19-17-3 record after the team had the NHL\u2019s worst record last season at 20-50-12.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini, a native of North Vancouver, British Columbia, and a former player with the Jr. Sharks, had his NHL-leading 10th three-point game of the season on Monday as the Sharks beat the Anaheim Ducks 5-4. His 60 points are the most scored by a teenager before New Year\u2019s Day in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini has an eight-game point streak for the Sharks going into their home game on Wednesday afternoon against the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back for updates to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 The Olympic dreams of San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini are reportedly coming true. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-114320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}