{"id":244536,"date":"2026-03-31T05:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244536\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:25:10","slug":"san-jose-sharks-beat-st-louis-blues-as-macklin-celebrini-hits-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244536\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks beat St. Louis Blues as Macklin Celebrini hits milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2013 The importance of the Sharks\u2019 game against the St. Louis Blues<\/a> on Monday didn\u2019t need to be reiterated to Macklin Celebrini, Alex Wennberg, or anyone else in a San Jose uniform.<\/p>\n

Wennberg and Celebrini each had three points, and Adam Gaudette scored a go-ahead goal with 21 seconds left in the third period as the Sharks earned a thrilling 5-4 win<\/a> over the Blues before an announced crowd of 16,031 at SAP Center.<\/p>\n

Gaudette came down the left wing and fired a wrist shot<\/a> that crept through the pads of Blues goalie Joel Hofer and slid over the goal line as the Sharks began a six-game homestand on a positive note.<\/p>\n

The Sharks had a two-goal lead late in the second period before they allowed power play goals to Philip Broberg and Cam Fowler, with Fowler\u2019s goal at the 12:53 mark of the third period \u2014 after a tripping penalty on goalie Yaroslav Askarov \u2014 tying the game 4-4.<\/p>\n

All three of Wennberg\u2019s points, including both of his goals, came on the power play, and Celebrini\u2019s three points gave him 101 on the season, as he became just the third player in the 35-year history of the Sharks organization to reach 100 points.<\/p>\n

Joe Thornton had 114 points in 2006-07, and Erik Karlsson had 101 points in 2022-23, when he won his third Norris Trophy as the NHL\u2019s best defenseman.<\/p>\n

Celebrini joins Wayne Gretzky, Dale Hawerchuk, Mario Lemieux, Jimmy Carson, and Sidney Crosby as the only teenagers in NHL history to record 100 points in a single season.<\/p>\n

Chants of \u201cMVP, MVP\u201d echoed throughout SAP Center after both of Celebrini\u2019s goals, his 37th and 38th of the season.<\/p>\n

Most importantly for the Sharks, Monday\u2019s win gave them 75 points, two more than the Blues and now two fewer than the Nashville Predators for the second wild card spot in the Western Conference, with two games in hand.<\/p>\n

The Sharks are now tied for 10th place in the West with the Seattle Kraken, both one point behind the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n

The rest of the homestand will go a long way in determining whether the Sharks make the playoffs. The Sharks play the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday, the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday, the Predators on Saturday, the Chicago Blackhawks next Monday, and the Edmonton Oilers on April 8.<\/p>\n

Celebrini assisted on Wennberg\u2019s power play goal at the 8:25 mark of the first period and scored his own goal on the man advantage 4:55 later to give him 100 points on the season and the Sharks an early 2-1 lead over the St. Louis Blues at SAP Center.<\/p>\n

Celebrini, who entered Monday with 98 points in 71 games, then scored his second goal with 56 seconds left in the first period off a nice assist from Nick Leddy, giving the second-year forward a three-point first period and the Sharks a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n

Celebrini, 19, entered Monday as the NHL\u2019s fourth-leading scorer, trailing only Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid (124 points), Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov (121 points), and Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon (117 points).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 The importance of the Sharks\u2019 game against the St. Louis Blues on Monday didn\u2019t need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4216,109528,1035,88,90,89,98,21161],"class_list":{"0":"post-244536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-alex-wennberg","9":"tag-celebrini-100-points","10":"tag-macklin-celebrini","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-san-jose-sharks","15":"tag-st-louis-blues"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244536","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=244536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}