{"id":276653,"date":"2026-04-20T10:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:58:50","slug":"celebrini-i-love-it-here-open-to-sharks-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276653\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrini: &#8216;I Love It Here,&#8217; Open to Sharks Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ehk250322052_bos_at_sjs1-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Macklin Celebrini's Car Gets Hit by Rangers' Team Bus After Brutal 6-1 Loss\" title=\"SAN JOSE, CA - MARCH 22: San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini (71) looks on during a NHL game against the San Jose Sharks on March 22, 2025 at SAP Center at San Jose in San Jose, CA. (Photo by Matthew Huang\/Icon Sportswire)\"\/>Matthew Huang\/Icon Sportswire<\/p>\n<p> Highlights<\/p>\n<p>Macklin Celebrini set the Sharks single-season record with 115 points in his age-19 yearThe 2024 No. 1 pick is eligible to sign on July 1 and told reporters he wants to stayRead below for his exit interview and video of the record-breaking moment<\/p>\n<p>Macklin Celebrini has already settled the big question about his future in San Jose before his agent even opens negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to commit to this team and (be) here,\u201d the 19-year-old center said Saturday. \u201cI love it here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini told reporters he is open to every possibility when it comes to his next contract with the Sharks. His entry-level deal runs through next season, and he becomes eligible to sign an extension on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe season just ended, and I haven\u2019t really thought about anything like that,\u201d Celebrini said. \u201cI\u2019m just open to whatever happens. There\u2019s a lot of stuff that goes into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He closed the year with 115 points on 45 goals and 70 assists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginohard.com\/celebrini-breaks-thornton-sharks-points-record\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passing Joe Thornton\u2019s franchise mark<\/a> in the regular season finale against Winnipeg. He played all 82 games and carried a young core that pushed San Jose back toward relevance.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks finished with 36 wins and 86 points, up from last season\u2019s NHL lows of 20 wins and 52 points. They missed the playoffs for a seventh straight year, but sat only four points behind Los Angeles for the second wild card in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>When he signs will matter too. Under the new collective bargaining agreement that kicks in before next season, players who re-sign with their current team can still lock in eight years until Sept. 18. After that date, the maximum drops to seven.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini said he has talked with Connor Bedard about the Blackhawks star\u2019s own situation. Bedard, the No. 1 pick in 2023, has yet to sign an extension and can become a restricted free agent on July 1 as well.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the record-breaking night shows what San Jose is trying to lock up. In three NHL seasons, Celebrini has 178 points in 152 games, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/macklin-celebrini-open-to-every-possibility-for-next-contract-with-sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose will want to get a deal done before the CBA clock runs out, and Celebrini has removed the one variable the Sharks cannot control. The dollars and years are still a blank page, but the destination is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Huang\/Icon Sportswire Highlights Macklin Celebrini set the Sharks single-season record with 115 points in his age-19 yearThe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[119628,1035,119629,88,90,89,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-276653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-athlete-contracts","9":"tag-macklin-celebrini","10":"tag-nhl-contracts","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-san-jose-sharks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276653","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=276653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}