Lin, a defenseman, has already skated with Celebrini a few times this offseason. They\u2019re both from the Vancouver area.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it\u2019s awesome,\u201d Lin said. \u201cI think everyone knows how good of a player he is — he already is at 19 — and all their young talent. It\u2019s a really good situation I\u2019m going into, and yeah, I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sharks have missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs for seven straight seasons, but they have been reloading and are on the rise again.<\/p>\n
They have selected nine players in the first round over the past four drafts, including four top-four picks — center Will Smith (No. 4 in 2023), Celebrini (No. 1 in 2024), center Michael Misa (No. 2 in 2025) and Stenberg.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have something really good going on,\u201d Stenberg said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Celebrini finished fourth in the NHL with 115 points (45 goals, 70 assists) in 82 games this season and helped Team Canada win silver at the 2026 Winter Olympics in February. The Sharks contended for a playoff spot ahead of schedule, finishing four points out of the second wild card from the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next 10, 15 years are going to be pretty special there,\u201d Verhoeff said. \u201cI mean, the players they\u2019ve (added) already and how they\u2019ve been playing already, obviously taking a jump, they\u2019ve been an exciting team to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lin said: \u201cAll the young talent they have, they\u2019re rich with it. To join that and hopefully be a part of that one day, it\u2019s really, really surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lin, a defenseman, has already skated with Celebrini a few times this offseason. They\u2019re both from the Vancouver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-380851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380851","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=380851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}