{"id":416654,"date":"2026-07-29T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416654\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:35:10","slug":"san-jose-sharks-make-celebrini-nhls-highest-paid-player-with-extension-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416654\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks make Celebrini NHL\u2019s highest-paid player with extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785338593_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Jose Sharks&#8217; Macklin Celebrini waits to take a faceoff during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Vancouver Canucks, in Vancouver, on Tuesday, January 27, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 29, 2026 | 9:03 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 The San Jose Sharks made Macklin Celebrini the NHL\u2019s highest-paid player Wednesday, signing the star centre to a five-year contract extension worth US$18.8 million a season.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old from North Vancouver, B.C., surpassed the US$18 million average annual value in the five-year contract Leo Carlsson signed with the Anaheim Ducks earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini finished fourth in NHL scoring last season with 115 points, including 45 goals and 70 assists, helping the Sharks post one of the biggest single-season improvements in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>He also became just the second teenager in NHL history, after Wayne Gretzky, to record at least 40 goals and 70 assists in a season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks&#8217; Macklin Celebrini waits to take a faceoff during the second period of an NHL hockey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-416654","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\/416654","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=416654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}