A three-point performance from Macklin Celebrini propelled the Sharks to a 4-3 win over the St. Louis Blues to close out their six-game road trip.
Team Teal gets on the board within the first one and a half minutes of this one, as Tyler Toffoli scores his 12th goal of the season, with assists from Macklin Celebrini and Nikolai Kovalenko, the latter assist being his first point as a Shark. Later in the opening period, the Blues evened things up at one via Jake Neighbours. The first period also featured a solid fight between Ty Dellandrea and Nathan Walker.
Early in the second period, the Sharks gained the lead after Macklin Celebrini put one in on his own rebound for his ninth goal of the season and second point of the night. Assists on the go-ahead goal went to Timothy Liljegren and Nikolai Kovalenko, the latter's second apple of the night. Right before the end of the second period, while on the power play, Macklin Celebrini scored his second goal of the game for his tenth of the season and third point of the night to give the Sharks a two-goal lead. Mikael Granlund and Jake Walman assisted on Celebrini's second goal of the game. This places Celebrini within one goal of the league lead among rookies, which is currently being held by the Flyers’ Matvei Michkov despite Celebrini playing fewer games than Michkov during their rookie campaigns so far.
Early in the third period, Brayden Schenn scored to get the Blues within one, while the Sharks responded 27 seconds later on Jake Walman's fifth goal of the season. Nikolai Kovalenko collected his third assist of the game, while Nico Sturm was credited with the secondary assist on the Walman goal. Soon after, St. Louis got back within one via Jordan Kyrou. The Blues had their most productive period of the game during the final frame, but luckily the Sharks were able to hold on and stave off any comeback effort by St. Louis in this one.
Alexandar Georgiev made his Sharks debut tonight in St. Louis and earned his first victory in teal, recording 17 saves on 20 shots against. Shakir Mukhamadullin made his season debut for the Sharks as well. Shots on goal were 31-20 in favor of San Jose. In other news, the Sharks released their holiday video for this year, which is a rap song titled "Holiday Inflatables." It was released ten years since their most popular holiday video to date known as "Holiday Sweater." This new song and video gave similar vibes to the one from ten years ago, featuring a broadcaster and some players. "Holiday Inflatables" also added a blast from the past in the form of a cameo from Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton. Both "Holiday Sweater" and "Holiday Inflatables" are fun, unserious, catchy, and clever jingles, and I highly recommend watching both videos, especially the latest one, if you have not done so already.
Overall, this was a great effort by this Sharks team to earn a huge victory to close out their lengthy six-game road trip with a 3-3-0 record; pretty not bad. Team Teal returns home for their next three games, starting on Saturday hosting the Utah Hockey Club at 7 pm PT.
Sources: FanDuel Sports Network Midwest, NHL App, Curtis Pashelka via X
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