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Macklin Celebrini

Macklin Richard Celebrini (born June 13, 2006) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre and alternate captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Selected first overall by the Sharks in the 2024 NHL entry draft, Celebrini made his NHL debut in the 2024–25 NHL season and was a finalist for the Calder Memorial Trophy.

Playing college ice hockey for the Boston University Terriers, Celebrini won the Hobey Baker Award during his freshman season, becoming the youngest player to do so.

Internationally, Celebrini has represented Canada multiple times, including the 2024 World Junior Championships, the 2025 IIHF World Championship, as well as the 2026 Winter Olympics, becoming the youngest NHL player to play for Canada at the Olympics.

Macklin Richard Celebrini was born on June 13, 2006, in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Robyn and Rick Celebrini. Rick was a soccer player for the Vancouver 86ers and a former physiotherapist for the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, he was later hired by the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) as their director of sports medicine and performance. Celebrini grew up a fan of the Vancouver Canucks, his hometown team.

Celebrini is the second of four children. The older brother Aiden was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks in the sixth round of the 2023 NHL entry draft. Macklin and Aiden played together for the 2023–24 college season. He also has two younger siblings: a brother, RJ, and a sister, Charlie.

Celebrini is of Croatian descent through his paternal grandfather, Anton Celebrini, who was born in Porat, a village on the island of Krk.

Celebrini currently lives with former San Jose Sharks captain Joe Thornton.

Celebrini played minor hockey in Vancouver with the North Shore Winter Club before the family moved to San Jose, where he would spend the 2019–20 season with the San Jose Jr Sharks program. Following a season with the Shattuck-Saint Mary's School, where he would score 50 goals and 67 assists in 52 games, he signed with the Chicago Steel of the United States Hockey League (USHL) for the 2022–23 USHL season, where he would score 86 points, leading the USHL and breaking the record for most points ever by an under-17 player in USHL history. After helping the Steel reach the USHL's Eastern Conference Finals, Celebrini was named Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and Forward of the Year, becoming the second USHL player to win all three awards, and the first to do so in a single season. Celebrini was also named to the All-USHL and All-Rookie first teams.

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