After registering the first night of five points of its promising NHL race, and even after a recent nine -game goal drought that included a couple of difficult outings at the end of last month, Macklin celebrini is the story of the official season.
Collect 24 goals and 38 assists, while the usual coincides with one of the two best lines of the opposite team as an 18 -year -old is not too bad.
However, it might not be enough to win the Calder trophy as the competent first -year player of the NHL.
Upon entering Friday against the Edmonton Oilers, Celebrini, after his remarkable night against Minnesota Wild, has 62 points, three more than the year of rookie of Pat Falloon in the opening season of San José. But there are also two points less than the total defense of the defense of Montreal Canadiens, Lane Hutson.
While Celebini has played 12 games less than Hutson, 21, his former teammate at Boston University, sharks are also the last place of the League, and the Canadiens are about to ensure a place in the playoffs.
That, and the fact that heavy use huton is only the tenth rookie defender in the history of the NHL, and the first in about 30 years to reach 60 points in a season, will probably weigh a lot with the members of the professional hockey, who vote.
The stellar game of the rookie goalkeeper and the native of Gilroy Dustin Wolf is also an important reason why Calgary’s flames still have a small possibility of reaching the playoffs.
Therefore, it seems that Celebini is no longer favored to win the Calder trophy.
And that’s fine.
While it would be a great honor, and a pride point in San José, so that Celebini becomes the second Sharks player after Evgeni Nabokov won the Calder, that is not what he and the team are chasing.
Sharks, with Celebini as the centerpiece, because building a team that can be competitive in the long term and has a legitimate possibility of winning the cup.
If Mike Grier, Celebini and sharks can get there it is not clear.
But nights like Wednesday, when Will Smith has four points, Jack Thompson has two assists, and his rookie fellow Nikolai Kovalenko shows that it can be a valuable asset, in addition to the whitish of 24 splashes by Yaroslav Askarov, and the winning objective of the Filip Bystedt game for the barracud With more to come.
“We simply have a good look at the future, do we do it?” The Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said after Wednesday’s game. “It was one of the (celebrinis) better games here lately, obviously with points and other things. And then (Smith) too. Even (Kovalenko) has really intensified and plays a good place in that role (in the celebrating line).
“But yes, we only have a good look at the future.”
After a slow beginning of the season, Smith is now a fourth in the rookie score with 44 points in 70 games, since he and celebrating have developed an obvious chemistry.
“You see that the player (Smith) is, and he was always obviously doubled a little slow start,” said Celebini. “You can see what happens when it starts and when it has been confidence and is only playing and having fun.”
Celebrini’s three objectives in his first Hat Hat trick of his career were assisted by Smith. When Smith scored with 52 seconds in the regulation time, drawing the game 7-7 in the issue of defense, it was Celebini who established it.
“We really trust online tonight to take us back to the game,” said the end of the Sharks, Tyler Toffoli, who scored his 29th of the season in the first period, “and found a road and scored goals at the right time.
“Obviously, there is a lot of pressure on them, but they are released in Alreaty to be the pillars of the franchise,” Toffoli added from Smith and Celebini. “Really proud of them in the way they were handled tonight, but they will have to do that for the rest of my time here, as special.”
In some seasons recently, winning the Calder trophy has not started using successful success in the future team.
Connor Bedard and Moritz Seider, two of the last three winners of the award, must wait at least until next season to have the opportunity to play in their NHL playoff game. Other winners recently such as Kaprizov, Matty Beniers and Elias Pettersson have two victories in the playoff round among them.
The only Calder winner in the last nine years to lift the Cup is Cale Makar, who captured the prize in 2020 and won the two years later with the avalanche of Colorado.
We can assume with jail, which is what celebrities of celebrities to do in a few years, instead of dusting a replica of the Calder trophy, as beautiful as it is, inside their home.
Before it happens, Celebini, the sharks know that they will have to advance at the defensive end. They are now allowing a League sausage 3.79 goals per game, just a little better than the 3.98 that cool last season.
It was carried out during the night, but Celebini, Smith and the sharks want to be in this long term, even if it is without the boiler.
“We are going to continue preaching the other side of the album,” Warsofsky said. “Because if we are going to start winning hockey games in the future, we have to be a group that defends, the four lines, and that will be a great emphasis on the low season.”
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