{"id":247980,"date":"2026-04-02T05:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247980\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:21:13","slug":"macklin-celebrini-ties-it-late-sets-up-alexander-wennbergs-winner-as-san-jose-sharks-beat-anaheim-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247980\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini ties it late, sets up Alexander Wennberg\u2019s winner as San Jose Sharks beat Anaheim Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Macklin Celebrini<\/a> tied the game with less than two minutes to play then assisted on Alexander Wennberg<\/a>\u2019s winning goal with 31 seconds left to complete a four-point game as the San Jose Sharks<\/a> beat the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> 4-3 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

With two goals and two assists, Celebrini now has 40 goals and 105 points this season, moving him past Erik Karlsson<\/a> (101 points in 2022-23) for the second highest single-season point total in franchise history behind Joe Thornton<\/a>\u2019s 114-point effort in 2006-07.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old Celebrini also now has 17 games this season with three or more points, second among teenagers in NHL history only to Wayne Gretzky<\/a>, who had 19 in 1979-80.<\/p>\n

Will Smith<\/a> had a goal and two assists for the Sharks and Yaroslav Askirov made 28 saves.<\/p>\n

Troy Terry<\/a> scored 4:04 into the third period to give the Ducks a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n

Celebrini tied it with 1:39 to play.<\/p>\n

Ryan Poehling<\/a> and Alex Killorn<\/a> also scored for Anaheim, which has lost three straight games but remains atop the Pacific Division. Drew Helleson<\/a> had a pair of assists and Lukas Dostal<\/a> made 16 saves and also got his first assist of the season on Poehling\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n

The Ducks played without their leading goal scorer, Cutter Gauthier<\/a>, who suffered an upper-body injury in Monday night\u2019s 5-4 loss to Toronto.<\/p>\n

Nathan Gaucher<\/a> made his NHL debut for the Ducks. He was selected 22nd overall by Anaheim in the 2022 draft.<\/p>\n

San Jose now has a 2-1 lead in the four-game regular-season series between the teams.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Ducks: Return home to play St. Louis on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Sharks: Host Toronto for the third game of a six-game homestand on Thursday night. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Macklin Celebrini tied the game with less than two minutes to play then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,127],"class_list":["post-247980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247980","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=247980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}