While the San Jose Sharks have had a rough go of it in recent seasons, their consolation prize was that they were able to land several top young talents by fortunate luck in the NHL Draft Lottery, including 2024 first overall pick Macklin Celebrini.

Celebrini is now playing in his sophomore NHL season, and he's put the rest of the league on notice by having already tallied 14 goals with 20 assists in just 23 games, a pace of 50 goals and 71 assists. Considering that Celebrini isn't even of legal drinking age in the United States, his stardom is already confirmed if he's able to put up those kind of numbers.

It was 20 years ago during the 2005-06 NHL season that future Hall of Fame forward Sidney Crosby was a rookie, putting up similar numbers. Crosby had nothing but good things to

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