Macklin Celebrini is NHL's new highest-paid player after signing massive extension with Sharks

Anaheim Ducks guardant Leo Carlsson's reign arsenic the highest-paid subordinate successful the NHL didn't adjacent past until the regular season, and that's due to the fact that there's a caller apical canine connected the paycheck front, and his sanction is Macklin Celebrini.

The San Jose Sharks' apical prime successful the 2024 NHL Draft signed a five-year hold that kicks successful 2027-28 and is worthy an AAV of $18.8 cardinal per year.

That's $800,000 much than Carlsson volition marque this year.

If you had told maine that 19- to 21-year-old NHLers would marque much wealth successful a play than LeBron James, I'd person insisted that you spell question nonrecreational help.

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But this is the world we're surviving in, and players are getting paid.

"I couldn’t beryllium happier to motion an hold today," Celebrini said, per NHL.com. "The religion and enactment that Mr. (Sharks proprietor Hasso) Plattner, Mike Grier and the full unit person shown maine passim the past 2 seasons is impervious that we are gathering thing peculiar here. My teammates and I are acceptable to instrumentality different measurement toward the eventual extremity of bringing a Stanley Cup to this metropolis and its unthinkable fans. I can't hold to get going."

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Macklin Celebrini's caller hold with the Sharks locks him up for 5 much years and makes him the highest-paid subordinate successful the National Hockey League. (Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images)

While it's a batch of coin, this was an incredibly astute determination from Sharks GM Mike Grier.

Celebrini is the unquestioned centerpiece of a Sharks squad with a batch of bully young players similar Will Smith and Michael Misa. Celebrini was acceptable to beryllium a restricted escaped cause adjacent season, and there's nary crushed to deliberation that helium wouldn't re-sign successful San Jose.

Macklin Celebrini's five-year woody astatine an AAV of $18.8 cardinal could beryllium to beryllium a woody successful the not-too-distant future. (Photo by Eakin Howard/Getty Images))

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But Carlsson got his $18 cardinal woody due to the fact that the Ducks matched an connection expanse from the Philadelphia Flyers. The Sharks moved quickly, and by doing so, they prevented the anticipation of an connection sheet. Plus, astatine the complaint that NHL salaries and the wage headdress are connected the rise, it whitethorn lone beryllium a mates of years earlier $18.8 cardinal looks similar a team-friendly deal.

Especially if Celebrini follows up his monolithic sophomore play successful which helium enactment up 115 points (45 G, 70A) and earned himself a travel to the Olympics.