"Sidney Crosby, the face of the NHL for two decades and one of the greatest players of all time, was gliding around with that familiar, terrifying ease, putting on a clinic for a San Jose team that is still very much a work in progress. The column was written. Seriously. It was going to be another learning experience the polite euphemism we use in sports when the up-and-coming team doesn't show up for a game."
"Macklin Celebrini happened. We throw around terms like generational so often in sports that the word has lost its meaning. It's marketing fluff now, with six or seven guys being once. But what happened against the Penguins wasn't marketing. It was bigger than that. It was a coronation. The box score says Celebrini filled the net with three points in the final 2:27 of regulation and in overtime.."
The Sharks trailed the Penguins 5-1 in the third period while Sidney Crosby dominated. Macklin Celebrini scored three points in the final 2:27 of regulation and again in overtime to complete a 6-5 comeback victory. Celebrini stepped in to defend teammate Will Smith after a hard, clean hit, showing unexpected physicality for a 19-year-old. The rally erased a four-goal deficit and energized a struggling Sharks roster. The sequence carried symbolic weight as a potential coronation for a generational talent and injected new belief into the Sharks' young core. The box score did not capture the emotional impact of the win.
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