{"id":380696,"date":"2026-01-01T00:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380696\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:03:11","slug":"preview-lines-40-nico-sturm-proud-of-celebrini-mukhamadullin-game-time-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380696\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview\/Lines #40: Nico Sturm Proud of Celebrini, Mukhamadullin Game-Time Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Sturm says that he told Macklin Celebrini how proud he was of him earlier this year in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>This is Sturm\u2019s return to San Jose, after the San Jose Sharks traded him and a 2027 seventh-round pick to the Florida Panthers last Trade Deadline for a 2026 fourth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Sturm was a reliable centerman through some tough years in San Jose, from 2022 to last season.<\/p>\n<p>Sturm also shared how he and fiancee <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-taylor-turnquist-nico-sturm-florida-panthers-trade-deadline-experience\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Turnquist<\/a> are doing!<\/p>\n<p>San Jose Hockey Now caught up with Sturm on Tuesday afternoon:<\/p>\n<p>San Jose Sharks (19-17-3)<\/p>\n<p>Yaroslav Askarov will start.<\/p>\n<p>Pavol Regenda is on the third line, in for Adam Gaudette (lower-body).<\/p>\n<p>Shakir Mukhamadullin is a game-time decision; if he can\u2019t go, Nick Leddy is in.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the lines should look like:<\/p>\n<p>Eklund-Celebrini-Chernyshov<br \/>Graf-Wennberg-Toffoli<br \/>Skinner-Dellandrea-Regenda<br \/>Goodrow-Ostapchuk-Reaves<\/p>\n<p>Orlov-Klingberg<br \/>Ferraro-Mukhamadullin<br \/>Dickinson-Iorio<\/p>\n<p>Askarov<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild (24-10-6)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/minnesota-wild-san-jose-sharks-game-preview-december-31-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per NHL.com<\/a>, these are how the Wild will line up:<\/p>\n<p>Kirill Kaprizov \u2014 Danila Yurov \u2013 Mats Zuccarello<br \/>Marcus Johansson \u2014 Joel Eriksson Ek \u2014 Matt Boldy<br \/>Vinnie Hinostroza \u2014 Ryan Hartman\u2013 Vladimir Tarasenko<br \/>Marcus Foligno \u2014 Nico Sturm \u2013 Yakov Trenin<\/p>\n<p>Quinn Hughes \u2014 Brock Faber<br \/>Jonas Brodin \u2014 Jared Spurgeon<br \/>Jake Middleton \u2014 Zach Bogosian<\/p>\n<p>Filip Gustavsson<\/p>\n<p>Where To Watch<\/p>\n<p>Puck drop between the San Jose Sharks and Minnesota Wild is at 1 PM PT at SAP Center. Watch it live on NBC Sports California. Listen to it on the Sharks Audio Network.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nico Sturm says that he told Macklin Celebrini how proud he was of him earlier this year in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[50472,831,22618,4272,385,185921,2124,4276,835,99,185922],"class_list":{"0":"post-380696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-2025-26","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-lines","11":"tag-macklin-celebrini","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nico-sturm","14":"tag-preview","15":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","16":"tag-san-jose-sharks","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-taylor-turnquist"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380696","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=380696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}