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title: "Macklin Celebrini sits one point from 200 in the NHL as the San Jose Sharks’ 20-year-old captain"
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published: 2026-11-10T14:15:00+00:00
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# Macklin Celebrini sits one point from 200 in the NHL as the San Jose Sharks’ 20-year-old captain

San Jose Sharks captain Macklin Celebrini has 199 NHL points in 169 games after a 21-point start to his third season, his official NHL stats show.

Macklin Celebrini is one point away from 200 in the NHL. The San Jose Sharks captain has 199 career regular-season points in 169 games, 77 goals and 122 assists, according to his official NHL stats page, and he is still only 20.

His third season has started fast but in a different shape from the last one. Through 18 games of 2026-27 he has 21 points, seven goals and 14 assists, with 10 of those points on the power play. He is also logging more ice time than ever: 23 minutes and 16 seconds a night, up from 21:19 last season.

## A busy week on the road

The last five games show the swings. Celebrini scored a power-play goal in Los Angeles on November 4, added another goal in Minnesota two nights later, then set up three goals in Dallas on November 7 while playing 28:05, his heaviest shift load of that stretch. Back home on November 9 against the New York Islanders, he put six shots on goal in 25:40 but finished without a point, leaving him stuck on 199.

## The numbers behind the slower start

Last season was historic. Celebrini played all 82 games and finished with 115 points, 45 goals and 70 assists, which broke Joe Thornton’s Sharks single-season record of 114. He came fourth in the league scoring race and fourth in voting for the Hart Trophy, the NHL’s most valuable player award.

This year the shots are still coming; the goals have been slower. A quick calculation shows why:

- **Shooting:** 7 goals on 77 shots is 9.1%. Last season he scored on 15.7% of his shots. At that rate, 77 shots would be worth about 12 goals, five more than he has.

- **Pace:** 21 points in 18 games is 1.17 a game. Over 82 games that works out to roughly 96 points, short of last season’s 1.40 a game but still near the top of the Sharks’ scoring.

- **Plus-minus:** minus-5 so far, after plus-8 a year ago.

Shooting percentages tend to drift back toward a player’s normal level over a long season, so the goal total is the number most likely to climb.

## From first overall pick to captain

San Jose chose Celebrini first overall in the 2024 draft after a single season at Boston University, where he won the Hobey Baker Award as college hockey’s best player at 17. He scored 25 goals and 63 points as a rookie and finished third in voting for the Calder Trophy, the award for the league’s top newcomer.

His profile kept rising in 2026. He played on Canada’s top line at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, where Canada took silver, and led the tournament in goals. In July he was named the IIHF Male Player of the Year, then signed a five-year, $94 million contract extension with the Sharks worth $18.8 million a season. On September 25, the club named him captain, the youngest in franchise history, succeeding Logan Couture.

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His next point will be number 200, and the $18.8 million-a-season extension he signed in July does not kick in until the 2027-28 season.

## Further reading

- [Wikipedia: Macklin Celebrini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macklin_Celebrini)

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