{"id":140093,"date":"2026-01-19T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:27:08","slug":"how-does-celebrini-deal-with-skyrocketing-hype-sharks-teammates-share-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140093\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Celebrini Deal With Skyrocketing Hype? Sharks Teammates Share Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 The noise around Macklin Celebrini is getting louder \u2026 but he\u2019s playing better.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, there was plenty of buzz around the San Jose Sharks\u2019 2024 No. 1 pick and his Calder Trophy-worthy rookie campaign.<\/p>\n<p>But this season, the hype around the 19-year-old has reached another level, between his Hart Trophy-caliber turn, so far, and his inclusion onto Team Canada for the 2026 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s done a really good job of not letting all the outside noise affect his game,\u201d San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedia and outside noise, you\u2019ve just got to do your best,\u201d Will Smith said. \u201cHe obviously does a great job with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So how does the teenager do it?<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini spoke to that last month, surrounded by a throng of reporters, in the hockey capital of the world, Toronto. San Jose Hockey Now also spoke with some of his closer friends on the San Jose Sharks, including Will Smith, Ty Dellandrea, and Vincent Iorio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe flushes it,\u201d 25-year-old Dellandrea said. \u201cWay better than most young guys, and I did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 The noise around Macklin Celebrini is getting louder \u2026 but he\u2019s playing better. Last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[18693,93,28929,1035,10012,9888,1036,88,90,89,98,7572,3577,8318,3578],"class_list":{"0":"post-140093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-connor-mcdavid","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-jonathan-toews","11":"tag-macklin-celebrini","12":"tag-olympics","13":"tag-rick-celebrini","14":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","15":"tag-san-jose","16":"tag-san-jose-headlines","17":"tag-san-jose-news","18":"tag-san-jose-sharks","19":"tag-steph-curry","20":"tag-ty-dellandrea","21":"tag-vincent-iorio","22":"tag-will-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140093","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=140093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}