{"id":463548,"date":"2026-02-12T05:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463548\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:10:09","slug":"how-have-celebrini-sharks-adjusted-to-more-defensive-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/463548\/","title":{"rendered":"How Have Celebrini, Sharks Adjusted to More Defensive Attention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s arguably nobody more important to his team in the NHL than Macklin Celebrini is to the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini has 42 more points than second on the Sharks, Will Smith (39). To put that in perspective, that\u2019s the largest canyon between No. 1 to 2 scorer on a team, followed by MacKinnon\u2019s 31-point gap over Martin Necas (62) on the Colorado Avalanche and Kucherov\u2019s same differential over Jake Guentzel (60) on the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Safe to say, he\u2019s the focus of any gameplan against the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>So how have the Sharks and <a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosehockeynow.com\/san-jose-sharks-defending-macklin-celebrini\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a> adjusted to all the defensive attention this season?<\/p>\n<p>First things first, Celebrini is simply better this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBigger, stronger, faster, more experienced,\u201d Panthers head coach Paul Maurice summarized in November.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrini and the San Jose Sharks coaching staff have also put the franchise center in positions to succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s arguably nobody more important to his team in the NHL than Macklin Celebrini is to the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[6052,831,4272,385,4276,835,99],"class_list":["post-463548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-defense","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\/463548","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=463548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}