MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Macklin Celebrini has taken off, in part, because of one change in his game.<\/p>\n
Through the first three contests of the year, Celebrini had three assists, but just two shots on goal. You can\u2019t score if you don\u2019t hit the net, and the 19-year-old had zero goals.<\/p>\n
Compare that to last season, when Celebrini led the San Jose Sharks with 236 shots in just 70 appearances.<\/p>\n
There was talk, in national media, of a sophomore slump.<\/p>\n
Celebrini was trying to shoot: He had 13 shot attempts in all situations through three games, but he was missing the net or getting blocked with frequency.<\/p>\n
But on Oct. 17 in Utah, in an otherwise one-sided 6-3 San Jose Sharks\u2019 loss, Celebrini did more than just score his first goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Celebrini, perhaps just as importantly, had three shots on goal, more than his season total going into the game. And, on just three shot attempts.<\/p>\n
This was an area of improvement for the San Jose Sharks star over the summer, as reported on the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Macklin Celebrini has taken off, in part, because of one change in his game. Through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[138687,831,4272,385,4276,835,99],"class_list":["post-256066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-craig-berube","tag-featured","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-warsofsky","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}