The San Jose Sharks lastly broke the chains of a 17-game shedding streak. They registered their first win of the 2025 season, a 6-5 additional time thriller over the New York Rangers at Madison Sq. Backyard on Thursday night time, due to Macklin Celebrini carrying the day. The 19-year-old ahead hit a house run together with his second profession hat trick and added two assists, changing into the fifteenth teenage participant in NHL historical past to rack up a number of hat tips.
Celebrini opened the scoring at 6:17 of the primary interval, redirecting a William Eklund one-timer previous Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin, who completed with 19 saves. He added two extra objectives within the second interval, together with a dramatic game-tying strike with 5.8 seconds left, organising the Sharks for a late surge. Celebrini additionally assisted on Will Smith’s decisive additional time objective at 1:38, finishing a five-point recreation and giving San Jose the win.
Smith was equally sensible, contributing two objectives and two assists, together with the additional time winner, whereas linemate William Eklund recorded three assists. Veteran defenseman Dmitry Orlov added two assists, and goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 22 pictures to safe the win. The mixed efforts of Celebrini, Smith, and 2025 No. 2 choose Michael Misa helped the Sharks tally 10 factors from gamers aged 20 or youthful, a feat final achieved by Toronto on January 8, 1986.
San Jose’s younger stars led a workforce effort that overcame the Rangers’ late comeback, which included two objectives from Taylor Raddysh, his second profession hat trick, whereas Mika Zibanejad and Juuso Parssinen additionally scored.
New York, who have been in search of their first house win of the season, have now misplaced 5 consecutive video games at Madison Sq. Backyard to begin the yr, their worst begin since 1943-44. The Rangers additionally suffered an harm blow as Matt Rempe left with an upper-body harm resulting from an altercation with Ryan Reaves.
The Sharks, now 1-4-2, prevented beginning the season with seven straight losses for the third consecutive yr, as they proceed a multi-year rebuilding course of. Beneath second-year coach Ryan Warsofsky, they may tackle the New Jersey Devils of their subsequent recreation on Friday.