{"id":461766,"date":"2026-02-11T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461766\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:58:08","slug":"how-are-teams-trying-to-defend-celebrini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461766\/","title":{"rendered":"How Are Teams Trying To Defend Celebrini? (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book to stop Macklin Celebrini isn\u2019t much different than how you (try) to stop Connor McDavid or Nathan MacKinnon.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how good that Celebrini has been in his sophomore season.<\/p>\n<p>At the Olympic break, Celebrini is fourth in the NHL with 81 points, behind McDavid, MacKinnon, and Nikita Kucherov.<\/p>\n<p>So how does Celebrini keep producing? Especially on a San Jose Sharks squad where he\u2019s far and away the No. 1 threat?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll get to that in a second: First, how do teams try to defend Celebrini?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The book to stop Macklin Celebrini isn\u2019t much different than how you (try) to stop Connor McDavid or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[831,4272,385,4276,835,6531,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-461766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-macklin-celebrini","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-ryan-warsofsky","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sjhn","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461766","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=461766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}