Sharks NHL Draft Lottery: Macklin Celebrini looks like the second coming of Jonathan Toews, and that’s exactly what the Sharks need.
Macklin Celebrini #71 of the Boston University Terriers looks on against the Denver Pioneers in the second period during the NCAA Men’s Hockey Frozen Four semifinal game at Xcel Energy Center on April 11, 2024 in St Paul, Minnesota. After 82 regular season games and more than 4,000 minutes on the ice, it seems reductive to say that the San Jose Sharks’ 2023-24 season rides on Tuesday’s NHL Draft Lottery.
If Celebrini wants, he can have a beer at a bar this summer. So long as he’s in his native Canada, of course. He’ll turn 18 on June 13, just a few weeks before the NHL Draft, where he’ll be selected No. 1 overall.He might be a kid, but Celebrini is the foundation piece for this unpinned Sharks franchise. He’s the reward for two years of suffering for Sharks fans.
Now, the player they did select, Will Smith, is no slouch. He led the NCAA in points this past season as a freshman. But Smith is not a franchise changer.I grew up in Chicago as a die-hard Blackhawks fan. Forget Jeremy Roenick and Chris Chelios, I was raised on Tuomo Ruutu, Eric Daze, and Jocelyn Thibault. Hawks’ home games weren’t on local television, and the only thing I was fully convinced of in life was that so long as the Wirtz family owned the team, they would never win a Stanley Cup.
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