Darin Stephens
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- Reposted by Darin StephensThe 2026 Pro Football Hall of Fame class: Drew Brees Roger Craig Larry Fitzgerald Luke Kuechly Adam Vinatieri
- Reposted by Darin StephensEvery American needs to watch this:
- 7th goal in 34 games for #SJSharks Philipp Kurashev this season. Had 7 in 51 games last season Yaroslav Askarov with 38 saves, most in his career in a regulation loss Sharks have lost 13 straight in Denver in the regular season, their longest road losing streak to an opponent in franchise history
- First goal in 61 games for #SJSharks Timothy Liljegren, who was assisted by Alex Wennberg and John Klingberg. Last: Mar. 4, 2025 at Sabres 4th goal in Sharks history on which 3 Swedes each had points, 3rd this season. Other two this season were both Wennberg from Eklund and Klingberg.
- Again, our press fails in the moment to support a female colleague who was brave enough to ask questions the rest are afraid to ask
- 3rd career 3-game goal streak for #SJSharks Adam Gaudette (last: Nov. 25-30, 2024 with Ottawa) Last Shark to have goals in all 3 cities on a Western Canada swing (consecutive games on same trip, no other stops in between): Tomas Hertl, Feb. 7-11, 2019
- #SJSharks Will Smith in 7 games since return: 4 G, 5 A Sharks 56th goal in 1st period this season, 5th-most in NHL. Avalanche lead with 62 Sharks 15th goal within game’s first 4 minutes. Only PIT (17) and COL (16) have more
- Snaps #SJSharks 9-game win streak in OT period. Only team with a longer streak was the 2024-25 Maple Leafs, who won 10 straight. Last time Sharks led 3-0 in 1st period and lost: Jan. 21, 2025 at NSH (lost 7-5)
- 60th assist for #Oilers Connor McDavid, his 10th consecutive 60+ assist season, 2nd-most in NHL history (Gretzky 13 straight)
- Eighth consecutive 50+ assist season for #Oilers Leon Draisaitl this season. McDavid also has eight consecutive. He and McDavid first teammates in NHL history to each have 50+ assists in same 8 consecutive seasons
- 20th point (7 G, 13 A) for Evan Bouchard in January 2026. First #Oilers d-man to have 20+ in a calendar month since March 1986 (Paul Coffey 27)
- First time in franchise history #SJSharks have scored as many as 3+ goals in 1st period in three straight games
- Michael Misa (18 years, 347 days) 3rd-youngest #SJSharks skater to score a goal in Edmonton. Marleau (18-142) and Michalek (18-306) were younger. Michalek’s goal was Oct. 9, 2003 Misa first 18-year-old Sharks skater ever to score a goal assisted by a teenaged defenseman (Dickinson)
- 142 points for #SJSharks Celebrini are tied 7th-most all-time as a teenager (with Ron Francis). 6th is Brian Bellows with 148 Celebrini reached 90 career assists in 122 games, 4th-fewest by a teenager in NHL history. Gretzky reached it in 83 games, Crosby in 107 and Ron Francis in 115
- Tonight: 4th-fastest two goals from start of game in #SJSharks history. Fastest two since Apr. 4, 2017 vs VAN when they scored twice in first :30 Sharks 10 goals within game’s first 2 minutes of games this season are 2nd-most in NHL (Avalanche 11)
- Smith and Celebrini with assists on Graf’s goal
- Collin Graf 3rd-fastest goal from start of game by undrafted #SJSharks skater: Jeff Odgers had two different goals :19 into a game
- From NHLPR: Macklin Celebrini collected his 4th career four-point game to tie Jimmy Carson for the fourth-most by a teenager in NHL history. Wayne Gretzky (14), Sidney Crosby (8) and Dale Hawerchuk (7) round out the top three.
- Courtesy @sportradar.bsky.social: Tonight was the fastest the Sharks scored 3 goals from the start of a game in franchise history (3 goals in the first 5:55). The previous fastest was 5:56 on 3/29/1994 vs Winnipeg Jets
- Sharks had 9 points tonight by players age 20 or younger. Team record is 10, accomplished twice: Apr. 9, 2025 at MIN Oct. 23, 2025 at NYR Celebrini had 4 points, Smith 3, Dickinson 2
- #SJSSharks defeated 3 different Canucks goalies this season: Tolopilo, Demko & Lankinen. 11th they defeated a team 3+ times in a season while beating 3 or more different goalies Last time they did it: 2018-19 vs Canucks. Defeated Anders Nilsson, Michael DiPietro and Jacob Markstrom
- #SJSharks Yaroslav Askarov first NHL rookie goalie age 23 or younger to record 2 wins in a season at Vancouver since 1993-94. Last: Trevor Kidd (CGY)
- #SJSharks Macklin Celebrini the 4th visiting NHL teenager to have 4+ points in a game at Vancouver, first by a opposing player born in Greater Vancouver Most points at Vancouver, Sharks: Owen Nolan 5 Mar. 10, 2002 Joe Thornton 4 Apr. 12, 2006 Macklin Celebrini 4 Jan. 27, 2026
- 6th career season with double-digit goals for #SJSharks John Klingberg, his first since 2022-23 9th Klingberg goal assisted by Macklin Celebrini, tied most by any NHL d-man/forward duo (Raddysh-Kucherov and Bouchard-McDavid)
- Most assists through 51 games, teens all-time: Sidney Crosby 61 in 2006-07 Wayne Gretzky 58 in 1980-81 in 47 games before turning 20 Wayne Gretzky 52 in 1979-80 Macklin Celebrini 50 in 2025-26 #SJSharks
- 2nd consecutive game #SJSharks had 5 points in a period by players age 20 or younger. Also did so in 1st period last Friday vs NYR. Only other times in team history they did so were Apr. 9, 2025 at Wild, when they did it in both 2nd and 3rd periods, and Jan. 19, 2026 at FLA (2nd period)
- Sam Dickinson youngest d-man in #SJSharks history (19 years, 234 days) to have a 2-point game. 5th teenaged SJ d-man overall to do so, first since Vlasic Jan. 6, 2007 vs CBJ (Vlasic did so twice)
- Will Smith joins Jeff Friesen, Marco Sturm, Patrick Marleau and Macklin Celebrini as Sharks to have two seasons with 20+ assists before age 21
- Celebrini’s 12th goal in 1st period this season, tied 2nd-most in NHL (Nathan MacKinnon leads with 13) Celebrini’s goal was Sharks first at 4v4 since Nov. 25, 2023 vs Canucks (Mikael Granlund)
- Reposted by Darin StephensImagine. Just fucking imagine. 😳👇
- #SJSharks Alex Nedeljkovic last 5 starts: 5-0-0, 1.99 GAA, .931 sv pct (28 saves tonight) Sharks sweep a 2-game season series vs Rangers for 3rd time (1999-00, 2013-14, 2025-26)
- Per NHLPR: #SJSharks Macklin Celebrini reached 50 goals in 120 games, fewest in Sharks history (previous: Couture 135 games)
- Per NHLPR: #SJSharks 2 PP goals tonight were their fastest from the start of a game in team history (3:08) Sharks had 7 PP opportunities tonight. Most by a Rangers opponent this season.
- #SJSharks Macklin Celebrini’s 5 goals against the Rangers this season were the most by a teenager since Sidney Crosby had 5 in 8 games in 2005-06 at age 18
- #1 overall picks to have two seasons with 25+ goals as teenagers: Dale Hawerchuk Wendel Clark Ilya Kovalchuk Sidney Crosby Macklin Celebrini #SJSharks
- From NHLPR: #SJSharks Celebrini (19 years, 224 days) 2nd-youngest active player to reach 50 goals (Sidney Crosby, 19-120)
- An idea from Hockey Hall of Famer Dan Rusanowsky: How many goalies have a goal, assist and fighting major in their careers? Since 1947-48: Ron Hextall Alex Nedeljkovic Chris Osgood Billy Smith Mike Smith Courtesy @sportradar.bsky.social
- First #SJSharks win this season without a point from Macklin Celebrini (record now 1-8-2). Last win: Mar. 3, 2025 at TOR
- 2nd season series sweep ever for #SJSharks vs a defending Stanley Cup Champion (2-0-0 vs 2011-12 Bruins) Snaps Sharks 10-game losing streak to Sergei Bobrovsky. Last win: Feb. 2, 2018 at Columbus. Snaps 6-game winless streak in South Florida, first win there since Dec. 1, 2017
- 4th game in #SJSharks history in which 2 rookies had multi-assist games (Chernyshov and Misa). Last was Apr. 9, 2025 at Wild (Will Smith 3, Celebrini 2)
- 4th game this season with 2 goals from #SJSharks d-men: Oct. 11 vs ANA, Dec. 11 at TOR, Dec. 13 at PIT. First career goal for Mario Ferraro vs Sergei Bobrovsky
- First goal in 144 games for #SJSharks Vincent Desharnais. Snaps NHL’s longest active goal drought. Last: Oct. 29, 2023 vs Flames (Jacob Markstrom). Desharnais’s 143-game goalless drought was the longest in NHL history to be snapped with assists from two rookies.
- Reposted by Darin StephensDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.
- From NHLPR: #SJSharks Macklin Celebrini factored on Pavol Regenda's game-winning goal, his 13th point on a GWG this season, which tied Jack Eichel for the most among all players. Eichel can still retake the lead tonight against the Maple Leafs
- Alex Nedeljkovic 2nd goalie in #SJSharks history to record a win in his 200th NHL game (Antti Niemi, Mar. 30, 2013 vs PHX) 2nd career start and win at Washington for Nedeljkovic (Apr. 4, 2024 with PIT)
- #SJSharks 15th one-goal win this season, tied-most in NHL (Red Wings, Islanders)
- Pavol Regenda and Collin Graf with a goal and an assist each, only the 6th time in team history two undrafted players have done that in a game in #SJSharks history. Only other time in last 30 years: Feb. 18, 2017 at Coyotes Melker Karlsson (1 G, 2A) and Micheal Haley (1 G, 1 A)
- Goal and an assist tonight for #SJSharks Collin Graf
- Tonight bs Vegas: First power play goals allowed by Yaroslav Askarov in his last 14 home starts. Last: Oct. 11 vs Ducks. His 13 straight home starts without allowing one was the longest such streak in #SJSharks history
- Tyler Toffoli is the 8th different Sharks skater to score an OT goal this season. He is one of 5 skaters in NHL history to have OT goals with 5+ different teams (Jaromir Jagr 6, Steve Thomas 5, Bill Guerin 5, Scott Young 5). Today was the first time in his career (934th game) he had 3 PP Pts
