MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Macklin Celebrini has taken off, in part, because of one change in his game.<\/p>\n
Through the first three contests of the year, Celebrini had three assists, but just two shots on goal. You can\u2019t score if you don\u2019t hit the net, and the 19-year-old had zero goals.<\/p>\n
Compare that to last season, when Celebrini led the San Jose Sharks with 236 shots in just 70 appearances.<\/p>\n
There was talk, in national media, of a sophomore slump.<\/p>\n
Celebrini was trying to shoot: He had 13 shot attempts in all situations through three games, but he was missing the net or getting blocked with frequency.<\/p>\n
But on Oct. 17 in Utah, in an otherwise one-sided 6-3 San Jose Sharks\u2019 loss, Celebrini did more than just score his first goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Celebrini, perhaps just as importantly, had three shots on goal, more than his season total going into the game. And, on just three shot attempts.<\/p>\n
This was an area of improvement for the San Jose Sharks star over the summer, as reported on the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Macklin Celebrini has taken off, in part, because of one change in his game. Through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[20270,93,1035,1036,88,90,89,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-26575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-craig-berube","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-macklin-celebrini","11":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-headlines","14":"tag-san-jose-news","15":"tag-san-jose-sharks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26575","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=26575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}