{"id":114588,"date":"2025-12-31T05:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/114588\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T05:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:16:14","slug":"san-jose-sharks-beat-anaheim-ducks-as-macklin-celebrini-cements-olympic-bid-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/114588\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks beat Anaheim Ducks as Macklin Celebrini cements Olympic bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macklin Celebrini scored a first-period goal and added two second-period assists for his league-leading 10th three-point game of the season as the San Jose Sharks held on for a 5-4 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Monday at the Honda Center.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Ferraro, Igor Chernyshov, William Eklund, and Zack Ostapchuk also scored for the Sharks, who won for the fifth time in their last eight games, bouncing back with a pair of wins after losing three straight before the Christmas break.<\/p>\n<p>Ostapchuk\u2019s goal, his first in a Sharks uniform, came at the 13:47 mark of the third period and became the game-winner as San Jose took a 5-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks allowed a goal to Troy Terry with 4:02 left in the regulation time to cut San Jose\u2019s lead to one after the Ducks pulled goalie Petr Mrazek. But San Jose blocked five shots in the final 3:18, and goalie Yaroslav Askarov finished with 38 saves for the Sharks, who also killed a late tripping penalty to John Klingberg.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Sharks (19-17-3) remained in a playoff position, entering Tuesday in the Western Conference\u2019s second and final wild card spot.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks outshot the Sharks 42-13 in the second meeting of the season between the two teams. Anaheim earned a 7-6 overtime win over San Jose on Oct. 11 at SAP Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not all going to be this perfect painting of what a win should look like,\u201d Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have to find ways to win in a different sort of games, and I think we\u2019ve done a pretty good job of that this year of finding ways to win different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini had to leave the game with 14:48 left in the third period as a shot by Ducks forward Alex Killorn deflected off the stick of Sharks defenseman Sam Dickinson and into Celebrini\u2019s face, under his visor, forcing him to fall to the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini returned to the game with 6:13 left in the third period, with noticeable marks near his left eye.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A closer look at where the puck hit Macklin Celebrini&#8217;s face <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MBUfWFrHpD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/MBUfWFrHpD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sharks on NBCS (@NBCSSharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSSharks\/status\/2005875322512716157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebrini assisted on pretty second-period goals by Chernyshov and Eklund.<\/p>\n<p>On Eklund\u2019s goal, Celebrini won a puck battle to the right of the Ducks\u2019 net, carried it below the goal line, and, with a no-look pass, fed Eklund for a one-timer that got past Anaheim starting goalie Lukas Dostal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot enough can be said about this guy,\u201d Eklund said of Celebrini. \u201cIt\u2019s unreal how he sees us and makes great plays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini now has 60 points in 39 games this season and is on pace to hit 100 points in 65 games, something only five teenagers have done in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>Chernyshov now has two goals and four assists in six career NHL games, all this month.<\/p>\n<p>The first period wasn\u2019t the prettiest for the Sharks, as they allowed some rush chances and were listed as having eight giveaways, but they still had a 2-1 lead thanks to goals from Ferraro and Celebrini.<\/p>\n<p>Midway through the first, Alexander Wennberg took a pass along the boards from Adam Gaudette, carried the puck into the Ducks\u2019 zone, and found a streaking Ferraro, who beat goalie Dostal at the 10:43 mark for the 100th point of his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>After an ugly giveaway by Askarov led to a goal by Terry, the Sharks retook the lead at the 19:12 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini created a Ducks turnover in the neutral zone as he got the puck to Tyler Toffoli, who passed it across the ice to Wennberg. Celebrini blew past the Ducks\u2019 defense and redirected a pass from Wennberg past Dostal for a 2-1 Sharks lead.<\/p>\n<p>Wennberg\u2019s two assists gave him 13 points in 13 games this month, second-most on the Sharks behind Celebrini (23).<\/p>\n<p>Gaudette took one shift early in the third period before he left the game with an undisclosed ailment.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks\u2019 next game is Wednesday against the Minnesota Wild as they begin a challenging three-game homestand that also includes dates with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday and the Columbus Blue Jackets on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini scored a first-period goal and added two second-period assists for his league-leading 10th three-point game of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,1471,404,266,88,90,89,98,198,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-114588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-central-coast","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-northern-california","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-headlines","14":"tag-san-jose-news","15":"tag-san-jose-sharks","16":"tag-santa-clara-county","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114588","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=114588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}