{"id":491229,"date":"2026-10-10T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491229\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:54:11","slug":"san-jose-sharks-macklin-celebrini-could-face-edmonton-oilers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491229\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks’ Macklin Celebrini could face Edmonton Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2013 Macklin Celebrini,<\/a> perhaps inching closer to a return to the lineup, will be a game-time decision Saturday when the San Jose Sharks face Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> in an early-season Pacific Division clash.<\/p>\n

Celebrini, who missed the last two games with a lower-body injury,<\/a> joined the Sharks for a 30-minute practice on Friday and stayed late with other skaters,\u00a0with no apparent restrictions. He also missed San Jose\u2019s Tuesday and Wednesday practices before joining the Sharks\u2019 morning skate on Thursday in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always a chance,\u201d Celebrini said Friday of playing against the Oilers. \u201cI feel pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feeling discomfort during warmups, Celebrini, who had dealt with the injury for a short period, was a late scratch for Monday\u2019s game against the Dallas Stars, who went on to a 5-0 win. The Sharks followed that with a 3-2 overtime win<\/a> over the St. Louis Blues on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was optimistic going into warmups, kind of tested it out,\u201d Celebrini said of the Monday game in his first comments since missing the game in Dallas. \u201cIf I wasn\u2019t going to be at my best or close to my best, then there was no point to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebrini didn\u2019t want to discuss when he got injured, and coach Ryan Warsofsky has also kept mum about it all week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re being real, I would have played,\u201d Celebrini said of Monday\u2019s game. \u201cI want to be out there. It killed me not to. Talking to the trainers, it wasn\u2019t the smart thing to do, and it wasn\u2019t something that I should do. So, listen to their advice and their expertise, and pull back.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut trust me, I wanted to be out there more than anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebrini, who hasn\u2019t needed to go on injured reserve and has been considered day-to-day all week, seems to be making progress. He said the decision on when to play is a collective one.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also worth noting that Saturday\u2019s game is just the Sharks\u2019 fifth of the season, with 79 more to go. After Saturday, the Sharks host the Boston Bruins in a game that\u2019s worth the same two points.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all the variables,\u201d Celebrini said. \u201cTalking to, obviously, the doctors and the trainers, and getting their medical expertise and seeing what they say, and, I\u2019m going to be honest, seeing how I feel. It\u2019s just a decision made collectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebrini said his dad, Rick Celebrini, the Warriors\u2019 director of sports medicine<\/a> and performance, is also a valuable resource, as he stays in communication with Mike Potenza, the Sharks\u2019 director of high performance.<\/p>\n

\u201c(My dad) has a really good relationship with Mike Potenza and our training staff, and obviously I have the most faith in our training staff and our medical guys to give me advice, and I listen to them, and we work really well together,\u201d Celebrini said. \u201cBut my dad\u2019s someone I\u2019ve leaned on my whole life to give me advice, and especially in the medical field, to trust him, and he\u2019s kind of specialized in return to play and injury prevention.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019ll talk to him whenever I\u2019m going through something, and that relationship is really good between (Rick Celebrini and Potenza).\u201d<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s a matter of whether Celebrini will play against McDavid in another tantalizing battle between the NHL\u2019s best centers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel good. It\u2019s definitely great to get back on the ice and start skating again,\u201d Celebrini said. \u201cIt\u2019s most fun when you\u2019re with your teammates on the ice, so, try not to miss more time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebrini said he hasn\u2019t read the glossy 3,000-word profile GQ magazine<\/a> recently published about him, titled \u201cMacklin Celebrini Is the NHL\u2019s Next Big Breakout Star\u2014Whether You Care About Hockey or Not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t read it,\u201d Celebrini said. \u201cI know they did their best to do a great job, and that\u2019s all that matters. Yeah, it\u2019s cool, but right now my focus is on the ice. That stuff doesn\u2019t really matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 Macklin Celebrini, perhaps inching closer to a return to the lineup, will be a game-time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":["post-491229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491229","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=491229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}