{"id":71514,"date":"2025-11-27T01:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71514\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:42:28","slug":"mackinnon-gives-celebrini-stamp-of-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/71514\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKinnon Gives Celebrini Stamp of Approval (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 Macklin Celebrini has received Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s stamp of approval.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, the teenage San Jose Sharks star played with MacKinnon at the World Championships. Celebrini and Will Smith then joined superstars MacKinnon and Sidney Crosby, among others, for training and golf in Nova Scotia before training camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s super dedicated and focused,\u201d MacKinnon told Corey Masisak of the Denver Post recently. \u201cHe\u2019s very mature. Seems like a great leader for that team. Just an awesome player, a guy you\u2019d definitely want to build a team around, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Avs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Avs<\/a> star Nathan MacKinnon spent some time with Macklin Celebrini at the world championships and during the offseason. He learned what Mackenzie Blackwood already knew. <\/p>\n<p>The kid leading San Jose\u2019s rise from the ashes is special.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7LfawhapmY\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/7LfawhapmY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Corey Masisak (@cmasisak22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmasisak22\/status\/1993801948915749225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon compared Celebrini to another superstar, non-Crosby category, and opined about Celebrini\u2019s chances to make Canada\u2019s 2026 Winter Olympics team.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Macklin Celebrini has received Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s stamp of approval. Over the summer, the teenage San Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4173,12672,92,93,1035,24178,18056,1036,88,90,89,98,4861,4254,42022,24179],"class_list":{"0":"post-71514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-featured","12":"tag-macklin-celebrini","13":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","14":"tag-nikita-kucherov","15":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-headlines","18":"tag-san-jose-news","19":"tag-san-jose-sharks","20":"tag-sidney-crosby","21":"tag-sjhn","22":"tag-winter-olympics","23":"tag-world-championships"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71514","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=71514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}