The 20-year-old was a full participant in practice Friday but did not take line rushes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He took part in warmups Monday before being ruled out for a 5-0 loss at the Dallas Stars and was on the ice for the morning skate Thursday after missing practice the previous two days, but he was held out of the Sharks’ 3-2 overtime win against the St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was optimistic going into warmups, kind of tested it out,” Celebrini said Friday about his effort to play Thursday. “I mean, if I wasn’t going to be at my best or close to my best, then there was no point to play.<\/p>\n
“There’s always a chance (he could play Saturday). I mean, if we’re being real, I would have played (Thursday). I want to be out there. It killed me not to. After talking to my trainers, it wasn’t a smart thing to do, and it wasn’t something I should do, so I listed to their advice and their expertise and pulled back. But I mean, trust me, I wanted to be out there more than anyone.<\/p>\n
“It’s all the variables. Talking to the docs and the trainers, and getting their medical expertise and seeing what they say. I’m going to be honest, see how I feel, and yeah, I mean, it’s just a decision made collectively.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
San Jose coach Ryan Warsofsky was optimistic.<\/p>\n
“I’ll talk to the staff, the trainers, and we’ll make a decision tomorrow,” Warsofsky said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Celebrini had picked up right where he left off last season for San Jose (2-1-0). He had three assists in a 4-3 overtime win against the Florida Panthers on Oct. 1 before following that up with two assists in a 5-4 overtime win against the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Last season, he ranked fourth in the NHL with 115 points (45 goals, 70 assists) in 82 games.<\/p>\n
Selected by the Sharks with the No. 1 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, Celebrini has 183 points (70 goals, 113 assists) in 154 games.<\/p>\n
He was named the youngest captain in Sharks history on Sept. 25 and is the youngest active captain in the NHL.<\/p>\n
NHL.com independent correspondent Max Miller contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 20-year-old was a full participant in practice Friday but did not take line rushes.\u00a0 He took part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-877590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877590","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=877590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}