{"id":417593,"date":"2026-07-30T04:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417593\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T04:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:55:38","slug":"celebrini-extension-raises-expectations-for-sharks-superstar-grier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417593\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrini Extension Raises Expectations for Sharks Superstar, Grier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macklin Celebrini just signed a record-setting extension that will make him the highest-paid player in the NHL\u2026and it\u2019s perfectly reasonable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also sets a clock for San Jose Sharks GM Mike Grier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sharks announced on Wednesday morning that their 20-year-old superstar had inked a five-year, $94 million extension. That $18.8 million AAV kicks in during the 2027-28 season and is the highest AAV ever signed in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think both sides were eager to try and get something done as quickly as possible,\u201d the San Jose Sharks GM said on Wednesday afternoon, on not letting Celebrini get to next off-season unsigned. \u201cMack\u2019s pretty dialed in and wants to just work and train and prepare himself the best he can for the season. I don\u2019t think he really wanted to go into the year or into training camp having any distractions or anything like that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are unprecedented numbers, but not so surprising, if you\u2019ve followed the rise of the upper limit of the league\u2019s salary cap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini just signed a record-setting extension that will make him the highest-paid player in the NHL\u2026and it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[46131,12234,18693,90987,4345,10370,18749,1716,1035,55945,4401,88,90,89,98,4861],"class_list":["post-417593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-alex-ovechkin","tag-connor-bedard","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-darnell-nurse","tag-hasso-plattner","tag-jacob-trouba","tag-kirill-kaprizov","tag-leo-carlsson","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-mason-marchment","tag-mike-grier","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sidney-crosby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417593","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=417593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}