Macklin Celebini did everything he could one day at night to give the San Jose Sharks and his new friend, Luke Schumann, a victory over the Minnesota Wild.
Celebrini was for all the ice while registering five points, including his first NHL hat trick, and helped in Will Smith’s draw goal with less than a remaining minute in the regulation time.
But sharks simply could not stop nature, since Kirill Kaprizov scored on the 1:01 extra time brand to give the entertaining 8-7 victory before a crowd announced 18,675 in Xcel Energy Center.
The second goal of Celebini, his 23rd of the season, gave the sharks a 4-3 advantage in the 12:28 mark of the second period. But the Wild responded with the power goals of Kirill Kaprizov and Joel Eriksson Ek before the end of the second, with the goal of Eriksson EK for 12 seconds before the intermediate, to take an advantage of 5-4.
Eriksson EK then added two goals in the first 2:06 of the third period, with the first in the power game, to give the 7-4 advantage an advantage of 7-4. Eriksson Ek, playing his first game since February 22, had four goals to help give the sharks his sixth consecutive defeat.
Celebini helped Nikolai Kovalenko in the 4:44 brand of the third period to reduce the deficit to two, while brokeing the record of the sharks points in a season (60) held by Pat Falloon. Celebini then completes the Hat Trick in the 10:02 mark of the third assistance of Will Smith.
Then, Smith scored his 17th of the season with 52 seconds in the regulation time, out of an assistance from Celebini, which now has 62 points with four remaining games in the season.
But the penalty of the sharks was a disaster, since it was 1 by 4 in the sour of San José for a four -game road trip that continues Friday in Edmonton against the oilers.
Tyler Toffoli and Carl Grundstrom also scored for sharks and Smith added three assists in the losses, which also saw defender Mario Ferraro to leave the game near the end of the second period with an injury in the lower part of the body.
Ferraro collapsed to the ice after blocking a shot by Matt Boldy with his ankle just before Eksson Ek’s second goal. Hey, don’t return.
On Saturday, Celebrini with Schumann, a Make-A-Wish boy who was diagnosed with a strange form of Hodgkin lymphoma (predominant nodular lymphocyte Hodgkin). His parents, John and Lindsey, discovered a lump under the armpit on May 14, 2024, one day before he turned 5, and Luke soon had to undergo surgery to eliminate the tumor, followed by chemotherapy the summer.
The two spent two days together last week.
“Bring our group a bit of joy and perspective,” said Celebini.
Wednesday’s game marked what was probably the last time the sharks will face the goalkeeper to the Hall of Fame Marc-Andre Fleury, who is presumed to be retired after the season. In 29 race games against sharks, Fleury, before Wednesday, had a 20-5-4 record with a .940 and three bleached savings percentage.
Only this season, in two games against sharks, Fleury was 2-0-0-0-0 A .952 Savings percentage.
The sharks arrived in Fleury at the 12:11 brand of the first period, when William Eklund Tok A Pass by Alexander Wennberg and fed him in front of Toffoli, who beat next to the 40 -year -old glove of the slot for his goal of the season.
The savage scored twice before the end of the first period to take the lead.
After the Sharks defender on the left, Henry Thrun broke the stick and played with the Toffoli stick in the right shot, Marcus Johansson Tok a pass from Frederick Gaudreau and defeated the goalkeeper of the Sharks, Alexander Georgiev with a shot.
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