The top two picks in the NHL draft have signed three-year, entry-level contracts. Celebrini had 32 goals and 32 assists in 38 games as a freshman at BU last season, becoming the youngest winner of the Hobey Baker Award, given to the top player in college hockey. “His combination of skills and hockey sense is rare, and we are extremely …
LAS VEGAS — Macklin Celebrini headlined the NHL draft by going first overall to the San Jose Sharks on a Friday night hockey and Las Vegas royalty mixed company under the visual spectacle of the Sphere. And to top it off, the newly established Utah Hockey Club leaned on NHL pedigree in making Kelowna center Tij Iginla the franchise’s first …
Beckett Sennecke, center left, poses with Ducks special advisor to hockey operations Scott Niedermayer, Ducks owner Henry Samueli, general manager Pat Verbeek, assistant GM Martin Madden and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman after being selected third overall in the NHL draft. The San José Sharks added a foundational piece to their rebuilding plan by choosing Boston University center Macklin Celebrini with …
1 pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, the Chicago Blackhawks selected Connor Bedard. If you’d shown up to watch an unstructured “open-ice” session there about five years ago, though, you would have seen three future top-five NHL draft picks skating, having fun and working diligently on their games. “These players used to get pulled by their NHL teams, or their …
