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Macklin Celebrini is making history in ways that put him in the same conversation as Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby. The San Jose Sharks rookie has factored in 50.8 percent of his team's goals this season, a rate that would represent the highest ever recorded by a teenager in NHL history.
Nikita Kucherov scored his 20th goal of the season on a second-period power play and added four assists, Darren Raddysh had a hat trick and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the San Jose Sharks 7–3 on Saturday.
The San Jose Sharks effectively took a trade target off the market by signing him to a contract extension on Sunday.
Macklin Celebrini recorded a point in his 10th straight game, but the Sharks quickly fell behind 3-0 to the Tampa Bay Lightning, who won their seventh game in a row.
A huge fight broke out in the second period of Saturday's game as the San Jose Sharks defended Macklin Celebrini from Tampa Bay Lightning players.Huge fight breaks out as Sharks defend Macklin Celebri
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The Lightning scored early and often in each of the first two periods en route to a blowout victory. They swept the California trip and now have won seven straight, matching a season high.
The latest is one in which Celebrini is on pace to shatter a record currently held by Wayne Gretzky. This stat: Percentage of team goals that a player factors in on as a teenager in a season. That means you take the total team goals, then figure out what percentage were either scored or assisted by a given player.