{"id":416684,"date":"2026-07-29T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:00:40","slug":"san-jose-sharks-make-celebrini-nhls-highest-paid-player-with-extension-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416684\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks make Celebrini NHL&#8217;s highest-paid player with extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"posted\">By Canadian Press on July 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a037eeb7f34211cbf39fb45a7068a241fb74ac7d19fcd09f8e38fccd68d8b826-300x197.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>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 DyckSAN 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.<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nCelebrini 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.<br \/>\nHe also became just the second teenager in NHL history, after Wayne Gretzky, to record at least 40 goals and 70 assists in a season.<br \/>\nThe first overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft has 178 points (70 goals, 108 assists) in 152 career games over two NHL seasons.<br \/>\nCelebrini also represented Canada at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics and world championship, earning IIHF Male Player of the Year honours last season.\u2028<br \/>\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published July 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>11<br \/> -10\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Canadian Press on July 29, 2026. San Jose Sharks&#8217; Macklin Celebrini waits to take a faceoff during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-416684","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\/416684","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=416684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}