Macklin Celebrini haunts Rangers again as Blueshirts’ free fall continues in loss to Sharks
NY Post
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Macklin Celebrini has shown the Rangers what an impactful top-overall pick can do for an organization.
The Sharks are coming into their own behind a rising young core that is headlined by the budding superstar, who was at the crux of a third win Sharks — this time 3-1 — over the Blueshirts on Friday night.
Celebrini toyed with the Rangers in this second meeting just as much as the first.
After posting a hat trick and assisting on the overtime winner in a 6-5 win at MSG earlier this season, the 19-year-old scored twice on Friday to send the Rangers home with a 1-3 on this road trip.
With his first goal of the night, Celebrini became the second-youngest active player to reach 50 career goals. The player he is behind? None other than Sidney Crosby, who Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan said Celebrini reminded him of after coaching the Penguins star for 10 years in Pittsburgh.
Celebrini scored two of the Sharks three first-period goals in the first 7:37, which marked the fastest for the team from the start of a game since Dec. 21, 2011.
PORT ST. LUCIE — The Mets’ 2025 failing (one of them anyway) might be their big strength now.
The discourse has gone on for two seasons now. But it doesn’t exactly match reality.
Where were the grownups for Team USA?
The Rangers reconvened after the Olympic stoppage wanting to find some successful combinations that had been largely absent through much of a disappointing last-place season.
SALT LAKE CITY — There was no sugarcoating an ugly first-half performance from the Knicks in the locker room, and the harsh words during the break helped spur a comeback in Wednesday’s 134-117 victory over the Jazz.
Team USA’s fate is out of its hands.
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Jasson Domínguez’s first-inning at-bat against Tanner Banks on Tuesday featured a different result and a different swing than “The Martian” had been accustomed to against lefty pitching.
Maxx Crosby isn’t looking in the rearview after a wild 24 hours.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Leon Rose tried to address the bench in the summer. It didn’t work. He got a redo at the trade deadline with Jose Alvarado and Jeremy Sochan.
If Isaiah Likely was the most … er … likely former Raven to follow head coach John Harbaugh to the Giants, Patrick Ricard wasn’t far behind.
The deal that brought Aidan Thompson to the Rangers didn’t create the ripple effects that the Artemi Panarin trade did because of who departed the organization. That was only Derrick Pouliot, a 32-year-old defenseman more than two years removed from his last NHL game. It didn’t create the waves like one for, say, Vincent Trocheck, would have because of current NHL players or draft capital the Blueshirts received in return, either.