MINNEAPOLIS — In another season, this is a game that the Sharks might have given up for lost.

Down 1-0 going into the third period, but dominated in the middle frame by the Minnesota Wild, the Sharks looked like they were running on fumes.

“It’s something we talked about after the second period, probably in years past, we punted this game and just moved on and took the loss,” Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said. “Whether it’s 2-0 or whatever it was.”

This isn’t years past.

The Sharks now appear to have a bona fide superstar in Macklin Celebrini, and they’re getting elite goaltending from Yaroslav Askarov.

Celebrini was bottled up for two periods and in the midst of one of his worst performances of the season. But in a mark of greatness, the Wild gave him a sliver of space in the thi

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