{"id":448379,"date":"2026-02-04T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448379\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:08:06","slug":"celebrini-on-why-he-tried-to-decline-penalty-sharks-praise-his-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448379\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrini on Why He Tried To Decline Penalty, Sharks Praise His Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Macklin Celebrini keeps doing things that none of his teammates have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, it wasn\u2019t some pretty pass or scorching snipe.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, in the middle of the San Jose Sharks\u2019 game at the Edmonton Oilers, Celebrini drew a high sticking call on Mattias Ekholm. Ekholm\u2019s stick, though it went high, doesn\u2019t appear to have actually struck Celebrini though.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Macklin Celebrini has a flinch reaction to Ekholm\u2019s stick coming up, ref raises his hand &amp; Celebrini immediately waives to the officials that the stick didn\u2019t catch him. Talk about a character player. \ud83e\udee1<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SJSharks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheFutureIsTeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#TheFutureIsTeal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9eec3kNWPr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/9eec3kNWPr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SnipeCity420 \uea00 (@SnipeCity420) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SnipeCity420\/status\/2017082322676592934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just reflex. Like a stick came in my face and I felt the wind, so I just kind of flinched,\u201d Celebrini told San Jose Hockey Now.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next, Mario Ferraro and Zack Ostapchuk and Ryan Warsofsky are among those who have never seen this in person, at any level of hockey: The San Jose Sharks superstar vigorously protested the penalty, trying to get the power play that was called in his favor, called off.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s just Celebrini.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, after the San Jose Sharks\u2019 3-2 victory at the Washington Capitals, a local reporter, with no trace of accusation in his tone, asked Celebrini about a pair of penalties that he drew on Caps defenseman John Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini, somewhat unusual for the clearly media-trained teenager, took a stand.<\/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":"CHICAGO \u2014 Macklin Celebrini keeps doing things that none of his teammates have ever seen. But this time,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[69843,1792,831,4272,6523,128623,385,6437,4276,835,99,117513],"class_list":{"0":"post-448379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-cale-makar","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-macklin-celebrini","12":"tag-mario-ferraro","13":"tag-mattias-ekholm","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-penalty","16":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","17":"tag-san-jose-sharks","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-zack-ostapchuk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448379","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=448379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}