Macklin Celebrini is spoken of in the same breath as Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid.<\/p>\n
And now, the San Jose Sharks superstar is going to get paid like them.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old is coming off a remarkable sophomore campaign, setting a San Jose Sharks\u2019 franchise record for single-season points with 115. He was a Ted Lindsay Award finalist, for most outstanding player as voted on by the NHLPA, and will also likely finish top-five in the Hart Trophy voting, for most valuable player.<\/p>\n
Celebrini spearheaded a 34-point improvement in the standings, dragging the San Jose Sharks from worst team in the NHL in 2024-25 to playoff contention until the last week of this season.<\/p>\n
All this in the second year of his entry-level contract, an almost unprecedented level of success for a sophomore teenage player.<\/p>\n
This July 1, Celebrini is eligible to sign a massive contract extension. What will it look like?<\/p>\n
Crosby and McDavid\u2019s second contracts, among a handful of others, should be comps for Celebrini\u2019s second deal.<\/p>\n
Two NHL player agents, neither with Celebrini\u2019s camp, shared their thoughts, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini is spoken of in the same breath as Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid. And now, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[22354,4269,278780,15802,4133,56347,10784,831,4272,385,15240,835,32704,99],"class_list":["post-646126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alex-ovechkin","tag-auston-matthews","tag-comps","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-contract","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-extension","tag-featured","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-nhl","tag-salary-cap","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646126","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=646126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}