{"id":274660,"date":"2026-04-18T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274660\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:04:09","slug":"san-jose-sharks-macklin-celebrini-open-to-signing-new-deal-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274660\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks&#8217; Macklin Celebrini open to signing new deal this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2013 San Jose Sharks leading scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/04\/17\/macklin-celebrini-sets-the-bar-high-for-next-seasons-sharks-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a> will likely be one of the NHL\u2019s highest-paid players by the time the 2027-28 season begins.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just a question of when Celebrini and the Sharks can come to an agreement<a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/player\/macklin-celebrini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> on a contract extension,<\/a> whether that\u2019s this offseason or sometime next year.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stats\/skaters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL\u2019s fourth-leading scorer,<\/a> Celebrini said Saturday that while he hasn\u2019t thought too much about his next contract, he\u2019s open to signing an extension as soon as this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks and Celebrini can sign a new deal as soon as July 1, as the 19-year-old centerman\u2019s three-year entry contract expires after the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t really talked about it, and there\u2019s a lot of stuff that goes into it,\u201d Celebrini said of a new deal.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini\u2019s next deal, perhaps depending on the length, could make him the second or third highest-paid player in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl had the league\u2019s biggest salary cap hit at $14 million, but Minnesota Wild forward Kirill Kaprizov will start an eight-year, $136 million deal that will carry an NHL-best cap hit of $17 million.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini could request up to 20% of the cap, which is projected at $113.5 million for the 2027-28 season. The cap for this past season was $95.5 million, and is expected to rise to $104 million next year.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini was two days removed from breaking Joe Thornton\u2019s single-season scoring record with 115 points in 82 games.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last offseason that players re-signing with their own teams can ink eight-year contract extensions. Starting in mid-September, when the new collective bargaining agreement fully takes effect, the maximum contract length will be seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back for updates to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 San Jose Sharks leading scorer Macklin Celebrini will likely be one of the NHL\u2019s highest-paid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[118930,9900,88,90,89,98,4626,24179],"class_list":{"0":"post-274660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-macklin-celebrini-mike-grier","9":"tag-nhl-playoffs","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-san-jose-sharks","14":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","15":"tag-world-championships"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274660","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=274660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}