{"id":468005,"date":"2026-09-18T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468005\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:04:11","slug":"macklin-celebrini-feels-sharks-excitement-for-2026-27-season-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468005\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini feels Sharks excitement for 2026-27 season \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more of his coverage on <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now<\/a>, listen to him on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/category\/san-jose-hockey-now-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">San Jose Hockey Now Podcast<\/a>, and follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheng_Peng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@Sheng_Peng<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/celebma01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a> can feel a different anticipation around town for this San Jose Sharks season.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini, back in San Jose for about three weeks or so, shared on the first day of training camp, \u201cWalking around, talking to people, people coming up to us on the street, just saying how excited they are about the season. We didn\u2019t really get that the last couple years, so it\u2019s cool to see the excitement from the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old superstar is arguably the main driver for this excitement, and also, last year\u2019s massive improvement in the standings. Celebrini had a sophomore campaign to remember, setting a franchise single-season record with 115 points, and finishing fourth in the Hart Trophy voting. He was also a finalist for the Ted Lindsay Award.<\/p>\n<p>There are now higher expectations for the San Jose Sharks and Celebrini, and he\u2019s ready for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake the playoffs. That\u2019s what we\u2019re focused on,\u201d Celebrini said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work to be done and a lot of growing to do. But I think, ultimately, that\u2019s what we\u2019re striving for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So how will the Sharks snap their seven-straight season playoff drought?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4l4mpADVRh5IPCdD2uRw1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note: Sheng Peng is a regular contributor to NBC Sports California\u2019s Sharks coverage. You can read more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1035,88,90,89,4054],"class_list":["post-468005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sharks-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468005","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=468005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}