SAN JOSE – It doesn’t seem to matter who his linemates are or who is in the San Jose Sharks lineup. Macklin Celebrini still has a way of bringing everyone out of their seats.
It happened again on Tuesday as Celebrini assisted on goals by John Klingberg and Barclay Goodrow, then scored another highlight-reel goal of his own to lead the Sharks to a 6-3 win over the Calgary Flames before an announced crowd of 14,261 at SAP Center.
Celebrini added an empty net goal at the 18:21 mark of the third period to complete a four-point game.
Tyler Toffoli scored his 300th career goal at the 12:53 mark of the third period to give the Sharks a 5-3 lead.
Klingberg’s goal just 62 seconds into the first period came off a no-look backhand pass between the top of the circles in the Flames’ zone.
After assisting on Goodrow’s second goal of the game just 19 seconds before intermission, Celebrini scored another spectacular goal early in the third period for a two-goal Sharks cushion.
After Collin Graf carried the puck into the Flames’ zone, he fed Celebrini, who took the pass on his forehand, spun around to get past defenseman Kevin Bahl, then put a shot on Flames goalie Dustin Wolf. The Gilroy native stopped the shot, but the puck went off Celebrini and into the net for his 17th goal and 50th point of the season.
With the goal and his three-point night, Celebrini became just the third-ever Shark to reach 50 points prior to the NHL’s holiday break, joining Joe Thornton in 2009-10 and Owen Nolan in 1999-00.
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Celebrini now has 10 points in his last five games, helping the Sharks go 4-1-0 in that time.
Celebrini had Graf and rookie Igor Chernyshov as his linemates Tuesday after Will Smith and Philipp Kurashev were injured in the Sharks’ 6-5 overtime win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.
Kurashev, who had 15 points in his first 31 games this season, is considered week-to-week with an upper body injury, while a timeline for Smith’s return is a little more uncertain.
Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said Smith, who appeared to sustain an upper-body injury in the third period Saturday, will sit out this week and be reevaluated by the team’s medical staff on Monday. Asked if there was a possibility that Smith would need surgery, Warsofsky said, “I don’t think we’re there yet.”
Before his injury, Smith, usually playing alongside Celebrini, had 29 points in 33 games and was a mainstay on San Jose’s first power play unit. The Sharks went 11-5-2 in games in which Smith had a point, and 5-9-1 in games in which he was held scoreless.
The Sharks had a 3-2 lead after the first period, with Goodrow scoring goals at the 6:00 and 19:41 mark for his first two-goal regular season game since April 5, 2024, when he was with the New York Rangers.
On Goodrow’s second goal, he first sent a pass along the boards to Ty Dellandrea, who carried the puck behind the Flames’ net before he sent it out front to Celebrini. The second-year Sharks center quickly put a shot on net, and the puck trickled past Wolf and rested right next to the goal line before Goodrow tapped it in for his third goal of the season.
Klingberg, whose goal came just 1:02 into the first period, now has a five-game point streak with eight points in that time.