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SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Sharks have signed Macklin Celebrini to a contract extension worth $94 million, keeping the star forward on the team for the next five years.<\/p>\n
Staying on the team <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s general manager, Mike Grier, announced Wednesday that the contract begins in the 2027-28 hockey season and runs through 2031-32, ESPN reported.<\/p>\n
The contract, when it goes into effect, will also distinguish Celebrini as the highest-paid player in the National Hockey League.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t be happier to sign an extension today,”\u202fCelebrini\u202fsaid in a prepared statement. “The faith and support\u202fthat\u202fMr. Plattner, Mike Grier and the entire staff have shown me\u202fthroughout\u202fthe past two seasons is proof that we are building something special here.\u202fMy teammates and I are ready to take another step toward the\u202fultimate goal\u202fof bringing a Stanley Cup to this city and its incredible fans.\u202fI\u202fcan’t\u202fwait to get going.”<\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
Celebrini, 20, was drafted by the Sharks in 2024<\/a> when he was only 17 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n Before he joined the team, he was a standout player for Boston University who earned the 2024 Hobey Baker Award, which recognizes the best amateur hockey player in the country.<\/p>\n With Celebrini on the team, the Sharks improved their 2025-26 standings by 19 wins and 34 points, though the squad fell short of making the playoffs.<\/p>\n In 2025, Celebrini represented Team Canada<\/a> in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, where he scored five goals and had five assists in 10 games to lead all scorers.<\/p>\n The Canadian Olympic team ultimately took home the silver medal, coming in second to Team USA.<\/p>\n The Source: ESPN, Associated Press, previous KTVU reporting<\/p>\n News<\/a>Sports<\/a>San Jose<\/a>San Jose Sharks<\/a>NHL<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Sharks have signed Macklin Celebrini to a contract extension worth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,100,404,88,90,89,198,755,127,1181],"class_list":["post-416827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-sj-sharks","tag-sports","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416827","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=416827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}