A couple of young stars will not be playing in one of international hockey’s biggest tournaments. On Tuesday, Hockey Canada announced that forwards Macklin Celebrini and Adam Fantilli are returning home, and will not be playing for Team Canada at the 2024 IIHF Men’s World Championship in Czechia.
The no doubt consensus number one draft choice in the 2024 NHL Draft is Boston University product, Canadian, Macklin Celebrini. Sometimes it’s worthy of a debate between players at the top of the board – but in this draft, there is one clear prize.
The Buffalo Sabres possess the 11th-best odds in Tuesday’s NHL Draft Lottery, just 3 percent, meaning they likely won’t win the right to select center Macklin Celebrini, a prospect so talented he could transform a franchise.
Even before he became the presumptive first overall NHL Draft pick — and potential San Jose Shark — Macklin Celebrini loved scoring goals. Not just on the ice, either.
It’s all but guaranteed at this point that Boston University center Macklin Celebrini will be the first overall pick in the 2024 Draft. He has the potential to be a franchise altering superstar with game breaking offensive skills to go with a really complete defensive skill set.
Macklin Celebrini is – clearly – the top prospect for the upcoming draft. The young man broke all records in his first NCAA season… when he collected 64 points in 38 games as a freshman.
According to TSN’s Darren Dreger, Connor Bedard and Macklin Celebrini are expected to join Canada’s roster for the 2024 IIHF Men’s World Championship in May.
If NHL Central Scouting's final rankings of North American hockey players are any indication, a number of players with ties to NCAA Division I teams will be called during this summer's NHL draft.
It’s no surprise that Boston University freshman standout Macklin Celebrini has topped the NHL Central Scouting list ahead of the 2024 NHL Draft in Vegas.
The 2023 NHL Draft was deep with talent and all eyes were on current Chicago Blackhawks phenom Connor Bedard as he dominated his draft season. In the end he went first overall, as everyone predicted.
Mission accomplished? On Fan Appreciation Night, the San Jose Sharks clinched the best 2024 Draft lottery odds with a 6-2 loss to the Minnesota Wild. They will have a 25.5 percent chance to select almost-certain first-overall pick Macklin Celebrini.
The conversation around the Arizona Coyotes’ possibility of relocating has become more realistic every day, and although there’s still plenty to unfold, the possible move already has people imagining a suggested name for the franchise.
Macklin, the consensus choice to be the first selection of the NHL Draft on June 28-29 in Las Vegas, won the Hobey Baker Award on Friday. The freshman Boston University center, who will turn 18 on June 13, is the youngest player to ever win the honor of college hockey's top player.
The San Jose Sharks hope to see two of these top NCAA prospects on the same power play soon. Both Will Smith, San Jose’s fourth-overall pick in the 2023 Draft, and Macklin Celebrini, who the Sharks hope they’ll be able to select first-overall in the upcoming 2024 Draft, were named first-team All-Americans East today.
He is considered the consensus No. 1 selection for the upcoming draft in June and is coming off a dominant freshman campaign with the Terriers.
What a season for one of BC’s all-time goal scorers, even if it didn’t end with an individual award On Friday evening, the Hobey Baker Foundation announced their selection for the 2024 Hobey Baker award, choosing Boston University’s Macklin Celebrini.
Boston University star Macklin Celebrini has won the Hobey Baker Award as the top men’s NCAA hockey player for the 2023-24 season. Celebrini beat out Boston College’s Cutter Gauthier (Anaheim Ducks) and North Dakota’s Jackson Blake (Carolina Hurricanes) to become the first 17-year-old to win the award.
Check out my “Sharks Pregame Live” hit! I talk with Rick Celebrini, Golden State Warriors’ director of sports medicine and performance, and also, father of Macklin Celebrini, the likely No.
Lane Hutson has been the talk of the town in recent hours, and with good reason. The Habs prospect, who saw his NCAA season come to an end last night, signed his entry-level contract with the Tricolore today and will join the big club in Detroit on Sunday.
Hockey’s latest worst-kept secret was revealed on Thursday when the finalists for the Hobey Baker Award — given to the top collegiate player — were announced.
Welcome back to Top Shelf Prospects, the column that brings you the next crop of professional hockey players. Each day our LWOS Prospects Writers will bring you a new player profile or topical article in the lead-up to the 2024 NHL Draft.
It’s very likely that 20 years from now, college hockey purists will still be talking about the absolute brilliance they witnessed following Macklin Celebrini’s freshman season at Boston University.
It’s a busy time around the league with less than three weeks remaining in the National Hockey League season. The Art Ross race is coming down to the wire, the best player in the game today did something that hadn’t been done since Wayne Gretzky, and Thursday’s slate of games had some interesting playoff matchups.
Connor Bedard knows a thing or two about what Macklin Celebrini will be going through. When the San Jose Sharks take on Bedard’s Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday, much of the talk going into the game was how the loser of the game would have a better chance to land the potential franchise-altering star out of Boston University.
2023-24 Team: Boston Univ. (NCAA) Date of Birth: Jun. 13, 2006 Place of Birth: Vancouver, BC, CAN Ht: 6-feet Wt: 190 pounds Shoots: L Position: C NHL Draft Eligibility: 2024 first-year eligible While there’s no generational talent label in this year’s draft, Boston University’s Macklin Celebrini is definitely playing like one.
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