{"id":275016,"date":"2026-04-19T02:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275016\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:40:13","slug":"san-jose-sharks-phenom-macklin-celebrini-open-to-contract-extension-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275016\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks phenom Macklin Celebrini open to contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/san-jose-sharks\/4971\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose Sharks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Jose Sharks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">San Jose Sharks<\/a> missed the NHL playoffs but they have every reason to be optimistic about their future.<\/p>\n<p>Their standout young phenom, center Macklin <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/macklin-celebrini-breaks-sharks-single-031454565.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Celebrini, finished a stellar 2025-26 season where he broke a team record;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Celebrini, finished a stellar 2025-26 season where he broke a team record&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrini, finished a stellar 2025-26 season where he broke a team record<\/a> and indicated that he wants to be in San Jose in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>During player exit interviews, a 19-year-old Celebrini told reporters that he wants to commit to the Sharks, following his sophomore season.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he&#8217;d welcome a contract extension over the summer, Celebrini responded, &#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m open to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to commit to this team and being here. I love it here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So I&#8217;m open to whatever happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks missed the NHL playoffs but they have every reason to be optimistic about their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[44472,88,90,89,98,63269],"class_list":["post-275016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-celebrini","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sophomore-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275016","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=275016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}