Record-setting Celebrini might not win the Calder. Here’s why that’s OK

Record-setting Celebrini might not win the Calder. Here’s why that’s OK

After recording the first five-point night of his promising NHL career, and even after a recent nine-game goal drought that included a couple of rough outings late last month, Macklin Celebrini is officially having the most productive rookie season in San Jose Sharks history. Collecting 24 goals and 38 assists while usually matching up against one of the opposing team’s top two lines as an 18-year-old isn’t too shabby. Yet it still might not be …

Celebrini’s five point night jump starts Calder talk

For a few weeks now, it looked like 18-year-old Macklin Celebrini wasn’t going to make enough noise in the final stretch of the season to overtake the Montreal Canadiens’ Lane Hutson or the Calgary Flames’ Dustin Wolf in the Calder Trophy race. In fact, the recent offensive resurgence of the Philadelphia Flyers’ Matvei Michkov made it look like Celebrini might end up splitting the forward vote… Source

In the last few weeks, most of the analysts and fans seemed to have already given the Calder trophy, given to the NHL recruit of the year, to the Montreal Canadiens defender Lane Hutson. But it seems that the attacker Macklin Celebrini of the San Jose Sharks did not say his last word.While the Sharks were in Minnesota yesterday to face the Wild, Celebrini had the best match in his young career, scoring 3 goals and winning 2 assists for 5 points …