F Macklin Celebrini (2024, 1st, SJS)
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In case anyone wanted to know, this dude is really f***ing good
Guess I will be watching a lot more Sharks games this season, he is the real deal. Love the full game compete and next level creativity.
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What a goal. What an assist. And his overall effort was incredible for his first pro game. Super excited.
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I just hope ge doesn't miss a chunk of the season... come to think of it the reason the scoring environment is so high lately due to the high end elite/star players are getting hurt less
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I'm glad would like to see San Jose enjoy an elite franchise center and one that they drafted at that must feel different getting that with the 1st pick rather than trade, must feel better in a weird way
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Here's a pretty solid shift-by-shift breakdown of 9/20 camp scrimmage and why SJ fans are so far very excited about Celebrini.
Every shift looks like this -- he's active, he's where he should be to force turnovers and facilitate breakouts in DZ, he's fast and dangerous in transition, and he's always supporting the puck and providing options off-puck, and finding lanes and creating opportunities in the OZ. Just an extremely sound, active player. Already looks like the best skater on the ice most of the time he has stepped on the ice.
Every shift looks like this -- he's active, he's where he should be to force turnovers and facilitate breakouts in DZ, he's fast and dangerous in transition, and he's always supporting the puck and providing options off-puck, and finding lanes and creating opportunities in the OZ. Just an extremely sound, active player. Already looks like the best skater on the ice most of the time he has stepped on the ice.
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Macklin is electric so far. Creativity off the charts and he's going to look like prime Huberdeau on crack with all the spinorama passes he's done today lmao. He's going to become a force in the NHL very, very soon. Congrats on the first of many!
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Current Huberdeau might be on crack too with the way he's playing
Cracklin Celebrini stocks through the roof!
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He looked like he belonged today. Lots of creativity and dangerous passes. Great assist to Toffoli. Some bonehead blind passes to center of ice, but also a few good hits and forced turnovers in DZ. goal was a fluke but it was still a dangerous play and we'll take it!
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Yup. He looked good although he seemed to slow down as the game went on. He also needed to do more on the O.T. goal. Having said that, as you said, there was no doubt he belonged.
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Easily the best perfomance by a 1st OA in the last 3 years
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ye hes gonna be fine lol looked good last night
I wonder if we decide, in the near future, that he was the most underhyped prospect to come around. I always maintained that what he did in the USHL as a 16 year old and in the NCAA as a 17 year old was unprecedented and we all should have been more gaga over him than we were.
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i been thinking the same quietly for the passed year i think he has potential to be a better player then bedard due to his overall game.
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I mentioned this in another thread (One comparing Bedard v Celebrini v Hagens v McKenna) that in my opinion he is the only player of the latter 3 than can be better than Bédard; he is the best north-south skating top prospect to enter the league since McDavid, and the most complete package since Matthews, even if he lacks a single generational attribute like bedard.
The reason I think for the lack of hype, not that it matters cause media attention doesn’t dictate how good of a player you will become, is that he had a pretty non-traditional development path going USHL to NCAA as someone from Canada. I think there was a fair bit of media fatigue after the galactic hype over Bedard, and it didn’t help that he got caught on pretty crap international teams that didn’t win anything
