A little over two years after the San Jose Sharks promoted Warsofsky and made him the youngest head coach in the NHL, they rewarded him with a new contract extension.
The San Jose Sharks’ breakout in 2025-26 has been a massive story in the NHL with the emergence of Macklin Celebrini and the rest of the plucky young Sharks.
The San Jose Sharks missed the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, it was far from a poor season for San Jose. Macklin Celebrini emerged as one of the best players in the world in 2026-27.
There might not have been a more impactful contract signed in the NHL this offseason than the five-year, $90 million offer sheet Leo Carlsson signed with the Philadelphia Flyers in restricted free agency.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
There was never a question as to whether or not the Colorado Avalanche would sign defenseman Cale Makar to a long-term contract extension. The question was always a matter of when it would get done, how many years it would be worth, and how much money it would involve.
Welcome to another offseason edition of Around the NHL. Training camps are just around the corner, but we’re still in the final days of summer. Here’s what you need to know about the latest news, rumours and transactions across the league.
To the surprise of no one, it appears that Macklin Celebrini will be the San Jose Sharks’ next captain. According to San Jose Hockey Now’s Sheng Peng, it’s all but certain that Celebrini will be the newest captain of the California-based team.
The San Jose Sharks appear ready to hand their captaincy to one of the league’s brightest young stars. According to multiple reports, including San Jose Hockey Now and insider Sheng Peng, the decision is “all but certain,” with an official announcement expected before the regular season begins.
The San Jose Sharks have a true one-of-one franchise player and leader in superstar center Macklin Celebrini, but at least for right now, they do not have a captain.
The San Jose Sharks have played without a captain for more than two years. The “C” has been sitting in a drawer since Logan Couture’s final game in March 2024, symbolizing a franchise in transition that had no obvious leader ready to wear it.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
A breakout 2025-26 season headlined by the emergence of Macklin Celebrini puts the San Jose Sharks in position to finally leave the abyss they’ve dwelled in for the last several years.
Macklin Celebrini is the San Jose Sharks’ young superstar. He was the 2024 first overall pick and basically burst onto the scene as a real difference-maker right away.
San Jose Sharks’ Macklin Celebrini is now the highest-paid player in NHL history, following the five-year extension he signed just days ago. While the extension doesn’t kick in until the 2027-28 season, he will have an $18.8 million cap hit, making it the highest annual number ever given to anybody.
For years, the eight-year max-term contract was the holy grail for any young star entering restricted free agency. Lock in the security, secure the paycheck, and never worry about term again.
Macklin Celebrini will be a San Jose Shark for at least the next six years. On Wednesday morning, the team announced that the burgeoning superstar agreed to a five-year deal that carries an annual cap hit of $18.8 million.
After watching Leo Carlsson get offer sheeted this summer, the San Jose Sharks wasted no time ensuring Macklin Celebrini doesn’t even come close to reaching July 1, 2027, unsigned.
The San Jose Sharks sent major shockwaves through the hockey world on Wednesday, as they signed superstar center Macklin Celebrini to a five-year contract extension.
Macklin Celebrini won’t be leaving San Jose anytime soon. The Sharks announced Wednesday morning that they had signed their superstar centre to a five-year deal paying him an annual average value of $18.8 million.
Two of the young stars in hockey today have trained together this past offseason, with one deserving significant praise from one of the new faces of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The biggest upside for Macklin Celebrini is pretty simple. He has the setup to become a full-on national face of the NHL for a long time. And not just “good player” national fame.
Macklin Celebrini has already cemented himself as an NHL star and with that, he is now weighing the options of how his next contract will look, according to Greg Wyshynski of ESPN.