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from Daily Faceoff (Frank Seravalli),
The San Jose Sharks prospect dropped the gloves with Liam Lefebvre on Saturday night during the team’s first 2026 Rookie Faceoff game against the Los Angeles Kings , and he proved to be as overwhelming in a fight as one would expect.
from Lyle Richardson of Spector's Hockey,
With NHL training camps opening on Sept. 16, I’m looking back on my reaction to some of the summer’s biggest stories. Today, it’s the San Jose Sharks signing Macklin Celebrini to what was then a record-setting contract extension.
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from Sportsnet,
The goalie signed a one-year, two-way deal with the San Jose Sharks , the team announced on Tuesday.
from the Edmonton Journal,
via TSN
San Jose Sharks superstar Macklin Celebrini says he was always out to land under the maximum allowable average annual value of $20.8 million
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The rebuilding Vancouver Canucks have hired Ryan Stewart as the NHL team’s director of hockey strategy and player evaluation.
General manager Ryan Johnson announced the news on Monday, saying in a statement that Stewart "brings a championship pedigree and a wealth of hockey knowledge to this brand new position."
Stewart joins the Canucks following four seasons with the San Jose Sharks where he oversaw the club's professional staff in North America and Europe.
He previously spent parts of 16 seasons with the Blackhawks, serving in a variety of roles from assistant general manager to director of professional scouting and amateur scout to assistant coach, and won Stanley Cups with Chicago in 2013 and 2015.
from The Hockey News,
The NHL is changing, and Macklin Celebrini proved that with his record-setting $18.8 million AAV contract extension. How will this deal affect the San Jose Sharks and the rest of the NHL moving forward?
from Sportsnet,
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The San Jose Sharks re-signed forward Collin Graf to a three-year, $12.75 million contract on Friday. The 23-year-old had 21 goals and 25 assists in 81 games last season with a plus-6 rating in a breakthrough campaign. Graf entered the league as an undrafted free agent out of Quinnipiac University late in the 2023-24 season. He played seven games that season and 31 the following year before becoming a regular in the lineup as a strong two-way player. “Collin was a big part of our team’s improvement this past season, being an effective penalty killer for us and his versatility in the lineup was extremely valuable,” general manager Mike Grier said. “His hard-working attitude and work ethic is a big reason why his game took another stride last year, and he continues to be an important …
from Sportsnet,
Macklin Celebrini ’s historic sophomore season has earned him a historic contract extension.
Celebrini and the San Jose Sharks have agreed to a five-year, $94-million contract extension, the team announced Wednesday.
Celebrini had one year remaining on his three-year, $2.925-million entry-level contract before signing the deal that keeps him locked up with the Sharks through the 2031-32 season.
The $18.8-million average annual value of the deal that Celebrini reached with general manager Mike Grier and owner Hasso Plattner is the richest in NHL history, topping the $18 million a year Leo Carlsson got when Anaheim matched a five-year offer sheet from Philadelphia.
from the Edmonton Journal,
Prediction: This winter many NHL writers, commentators, podcasters and bloggers, not to mention San Jose Sharks fans, will claim that the Sharks won the Darnell Nurse trade.
from Sportsnet,
The San Jose Sharks star forward was announced on Tuesday as the cover athlete for EA Sports NHL 27, making him the youngest to be featured yet.
Celebrini, who just turned 20 in June, is coming off a 115-point season in 2025-26, posting 45 goals and 70 assists over 82 games.
His historic year saw him join an exclusive list of teenagers who scored 100 points in an NHL season, joining Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby (who did it twice), Mario Lemieux, Dale Hawerchuk and Jimmy Carson.
Celebrini reached the 100-point mark in 72 games, and only Gretzky (61 games in 1979-80) and Crosby (65 games in 2006-07) reached the milestone faster as teenagers.
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The Edmonton Oilers have agreed to move Darnell Nurse, to San Jose.
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The San Jose Sharks have signed unrestricted free agent forward Mason Marchment to a five-year, $35 million contract that carries a cap hit of $7 million. Marchment, 31,
from Sportsnet,
The San Jose Sharks snapped up seven-foot-one, 280-pound defenceman Alexander Karmanov in the seventh round (201st overall) of the NHL Draft on Saturday.
Karmanov, a native of Moldova, signed with the North Bay Battalion in late November after being picked by the Brantford Bulldogs in the CHL Import Draft last summer.
Karmanov had no goals, two assists and 29 penalty minutes in 20 games for the Battalion.
Previously, he had three goals, four assists and 68 penalty minutes in 15 games with the Bulldogs' top affiliate in the Greater Ontario Hockey League.
from Sportsnet,
While we won’t know how many of the 32 picks pan out for years to come, Ryan Dixon still identifies some winners and losers from one of the biggest events on the NHL calendar.
from Sportsnet,
The San Jose Sharks looked like a team on the rise last season. Now, after a huge Day 1 at the NHL Draft, the future is even brighter.
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from The Hockey News,
The Ottawa Senators traded the No. 9 pick to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for William Eklund, Kasper Halttunen and Brandon Svoboda.
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One day after trading away their captain, Brady Tkachuk, the Ottawa Senators have acquired William Eklund from the San Jose Sharks .
The deal also sees the Senators receive Kasper Halttunen and the rights to Brandon Svoboda. In exchange, the Sharks get the ninth overall pick in the 2026 draft, which Ottawa had obtained in the Tkachuk trade.
Eklund, 23, recorded 53 points (15 goals and 38 assists) in 78 games last season.
The Stockholm native was drafted seventh overall by the Sharks in 2021.
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The Sharks re-signed defenceman Nolan Allan to a two-year contract, the team announced Tuesday. No financial terms were disclosed.
Allan, drafted 32nd overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in 2021, joined the Sharks in a trade alongside goalie Laurent Broissoit in January.
The 23-year-old has 43 games of NHL experience, all with Chicago, tallying one goal and seven assists. He joined the Sharks' AHL affiliate San Jose Barracuda after the trade, where he put up two goals and 12 assists in 35 games.
Allan, of Davidson, Sask., also won gold as part of the Canadian world junior team in 2023.