{"id":248657,"date":"2026-04-02T16:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:07:22","slug":"celebrini-ties-it-late-sets-up-wennbergs-winner-as-sharks-beat-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248657\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrini ties it late, sets up Wennberg&#8217;s winner as Sharks beat Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macklin Celebrini tied the game with less than two minutes to play then assisted on Alexander Wennberg&#8217;s winning goal with 31 seconds left to complete a four-point game as the San Jose Sharks beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-3 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>With two goals and two assists, Celebrini now has 40 goals and 105 points this season, moving him past Erik Karlsson (101 points in 2022-23) for the second highest single-season point total in franchise history behind Joe Thornton&#8217;s 114-point effort in 2006-07.<\/p>\n<p>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, who had 19 in 1979-80.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sharks-ducks-2268845018.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"sharks-ducks-2268845018.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Macklin Celebrini #71 of the San Jose Sharks celebrates scoring a goal in the third period against the Anaheim Ducks at SAP Center on April 1, 2026 in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>                Kavin Mistry\/NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith had a goal and two assists for the Sharks and Yaroslav Askirov made 28 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Troy Terry scored 4:04 into the third period to give the Ducks a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini tied it with 1:39 to play.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Poehling and Alex Killorn also scored for Anaheim, which has lost three straight games but remains atop the Pacific Division. Drew Helleson had a pair of assists and Lukas Dostal made 16 saves and also got his first assist of the season on Poehling&#8217;s goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks played without their leading goal scorer, Cutter Gauthier, who suffered an upper-body injury in Monday night&#8217;s 5-4 loss to Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Gaucher made his NHL debut for the Ducks. He was selected 22nd overall by Anaheim in the 2022 draft.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose now has a 2-1 lead in the four-game regular-season series between the teams.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Ducks: Return home to play St. Louis on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks: Host Toronto for the third game of a six-game homestand on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini tied the game with less than two minutes to play then assisted on Alexander Wennberg&#8217;s winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,404,98,127],"class_list":["post-248657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248657","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=248657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}