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The 2026 Pro Football Hall of Fame class:
Drew Brees
Roger Craig
Larry Fitzgerald
Luke Kuechly
Adam Vinatieri

Every American needs to watch this:

7th goal in 34 games for #SJSharks Philipp Kurashev this season. Had 7 in 51 games last season

Yaroslav Askarov with 38 saves, most in his career in a regulation loss

Sharks have lost 13 straight in Denver in the regular season, their longest road losing streak to an opponent in franchise history

First goal in 61 games for #SJSharks Timothy Liljegren, who was assisted by Alex Wennberg and John Klingberg. Last: Mar. 4, 2025 at Sabres

4th goal in Sharks history on which 3 Swedes each had points, 3rd this season. Other two this season were both Wennberg from Eklund and Klingberg.

Again, our press fails in the moment to support a female colleague who was brave enough to ask questions the rest are afraid to ask

3rd career 3-game goal streak for #SJSharks Adam Gaudette (last: Nov. 25-30, 2024 with Ottawa)

Last Shark to have goals in all 3 cities on a Western Canada swing (consecutive games on same trip, no other stops in between): Tomas Hertl, Feb. 7-11, 2019

#SJSharks Will Smith in 7 games since return: 4 G, 5 A

Sharks 56th goal in 1st period this season, 5th-most in NHL. Avalanche lead with 62

Sharks 15th goal within game’s first 4 minutes. Only PIT (17) and COL (16) have more

Snaps #SJSharks 9-game win streak in OT period. Only team with a longer streak was the 2024-25 Maple Leafs, who won 10 straight.

Last time Sharks led 3-0 in 1st period and lost: Jan. 21, 2025 at NSH (lost 7-5)

60th assist for #Oilers Connor McDavid, his 10th consecutive 60+ assist season, 2nd-most in NHL history (Gretzky 13 straight)

Eighth consecutive 50+ assist season for #Oilers Leon Draisaitl this season. McDavid also has eight consecutive. He and McDavid first teammates in NHL history to each have 50+ assists in same 8 consecutive seasons

20th point (7 G, 13 A) for Evan Bouchard in January 2026. First #Oilers d-man to have 20+ in a calendar month since March 1986 (Paul Coffey 27)

First time in franchise history #SJSharks have scored as many as 3+ goals in 1st period in three straight games

Michael Misa (18 years, 347 days) 3rd-youngest #SJSharks skater to score a goal in Edmonton. Marleau (18-142) and Michalek (18-306) were younger. Michalek’s goal was Oct. 9, 2003

Misa first 18-year-old Sharks skater ever to score a goal assisted by a teenaged defenseman (Dickinson)

142 points for #SJSharks Celebrini are tied 7th-most all-time as a teenager (with Ron Francis). 6th is Brian Bellows with 148

Celebrini reached 90 career assists in 122 games, 4th-fewest by a teenager in NHL history. Gretzky reached it in 83 games, Crosby in 107 and Ron Francis in 115

Tonight: 4th-fastest two goals from start of game in #SJSharks history. Fastest two since Apr. 4, 2017 vs VAN when they scored twice in first :30

Sharks 10 goals within game’s first 2 minutes of games this season are 2nd-most in NHL (Avalanche 11)

Smith and Celebrini with assists on Graf’s goal

Collin Graf 3rd-fastest goal from start of game by undrafted #SJSharks skater: Jeff Odgers had two different goals :19 into a game

From NHLPR:

Macklin Celebrini collected his 4th career four-point game to tie Jimmy Carson for the fourth-most by a teenager in NHL history. Wayne Gretzky (14), Sidney Crosby (8) and Dale Hawerchuk (7) round out the top three.

Courtesy @sportradar.bsky.social:

Tonight was the fastest the Sharks scored 3 goals from the start of a game in franchise history (3 goals in the first 5:55).

The previous fastest was 5:56 on 3/29/1994 vs Winnipeg Jets

Sharks had 9 points tonight by players age 20 or younger. Team record is 10, accomplished twice:

Apr. 9, 2025 at MIN
Oct. 23, 2025 at NYR

Celebrini had 4 points, Smith 3, Dickinson 2

#SJSSharks defeated 3 different Canucks goalies this season: Tolopilo, Demko & Lankinen. 11th they defeated a team 3+ times in a season while beating 3 or more different goalies

Last time they did it: 2018-19 vs Canucks. Defeated Anders Nilsson, Michael DiPietro and Jacob Markstrom

#SJSharks Yaroslav Askarov first NHL rookie goalie age 23 or younger to record 2 wins in a season at Vancouver since 1993-94. Last: Trevor Kidd (CGY)

#SJSharks Macklin Celebrini the 4th visiting NHL teenager to have 4+ points in a game at Vancouver, first by a opposing player born in Greater Vancouver

Most points at Vancouver, Sharks:

Owen Nolan 5
Mar. 10, 2002

Joe Thornton 4
Apr. 12, 2006

Macklin Celebrini 4
Jan. 27, 2026

6th career season with double-digit goals for #SJSharks John Klingberg, his first since 2022-23

9th Klingberg goal assisted by Macklin Celebrini, tied most by any NHL d-man/forward duo (Raddysh-Kucherov and Bouchard-McDavid)

Most assists through 51 games, teens all-time:

Sidney Crosby
61 in 2006-07

Wayne Gretzky
58 in 1980-81 in 47 games before turning 20

Wayne Gretzky
52 in 1979-80

Macklin Celebrini
50 in 2025-26

#SJSharks

2nd consecutive game #SJSharks had 5 points in a period by players age 20 or younger. Also did so in 1st period last Friday vs NYR.

Only other times in team history they did so were Apr. 9, 2025 at Wild, when they did it in both 2nd and 3rd periods, and Jan. 19, 2026 at FLA (2nd period)

Sam Dickinson youngest d-man in #SJSharks history (19 years, 234 days) to have a 2-point game. 5th teenaged SJ d-man overall to do so, first since Vlasic Jan. 6, 2007 vs CBJ (Vlasic did so twice)

Will Smith joins Jeff Friesen, Marco Sturm, Patrick Marleau and Macklin Celebrini as Sharks to have two seasons with 20+ assists before age 21

Celebrini’s 12th goal in 1st period this season, tied 2nd-most in NHL (Nathan MacKinnon leads with 13)

Celebrini’s goal was Sharks first at 4v4 since Nov. 25, 2023 vs Canucks (Mikael Granlund)