Macklin Celebrini added to his remarkable rookie Sharks season lore on Wednesday night.
The center and No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft scored his first career hat trick in San Jose’s intense 8-7 overtime loss to the Minnesota Wild at Xcel Energy Center.
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WATCH HEREMACKLIN CELEBRINI HAS HIS FIRST CAREER HAT TRICK 🎩🎩🎩 pic.twitter.com/bOx1d7Q9LO
— Sharks on NBCS (@NBCSSharks) April 10, 2025
It was Celebrini’s first career four-point game – he finished with five – as he scored three goals with two assists.
And with 24 goals and 38 assists on the 2024-25 NHL season, the 18-year-old grew his campaign-long point total to 62 and now has the Sharks’ franchise record for most points in a rookie season, passing Pat Falloon’s previous record of 59 from 1991-92.
Celebrini’s No. 1 fan and Make-A-Wish-kid Luke Schumann notably was in attendance for the trademark game.
Make-A-Wish kid Luke Schumann was loving the go-ahead goal by his favorite player 🥹 pic.twitter.com/FPSSLQYBrE
— Sharks on NBCS (@NBCSSharks) April 10, 2025
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There truly is no player like Celebrini.
His hat trick was the first by any rookie this season, and the first by a rookie since Utah Hockey Club center Logan Cooley on March 28, 2024. It also was the first hat trick by a rookie No. 1 overall pick since Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews' in 2016, and the fifth by a rookie in Sharks history -- Tomáš Hertl, Ryane Clowe, Alexei Yegorov and Rob Gaudreau own the others.
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