Sharks earn first win behind Smith's OT goal, Celebrini's hat trick

Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News on Oct 23, 2025

Published in Hockey

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The San Jose Sharks ended a month’s worth of frustration on Thursday as Will Smith scored at the 1:37 mark of overtime to give his team a thrilling 6-5 win over the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.

Macklin Celebrini recorded his second career NHL hat trick and matched a career high with five points, as he assisted on Smith’s second goal of the game, which set off a wild celebration for the previously winless Sharks (1-4-2).

On the winning goal, Celebrini stole the puck from defensemen Braden Schneider in the corner to the left of the Rangers, took a stride, and fed Smith with a cross-ice pass for a one-timer that beat goalie Igor Shesterkin.

Celebrini scored twice in the first period and completed the hat trick with 8.3 seconds left in the second period, taking a pass from Smith and beating Shesterkin to tie the game 4-4. Smith then scored his first goal of the season, right after a Sharks power play had expired, with 13:29 left in regulation time to give the Sharks a 5-4 lead.

But Taylor Raddysh completed his own hat trick with 8:10 left to go in the third period to tie the game 5-5.

Celebrini’s first career hat trick came at the end of his rookie season on April 9 against the Minnesota Wild. He also had two assists in that game in an 8-7 loss to the host Wild.

With his performance on Thursday, Celebrini, 19, became just the third NHL player in the past 32 years with multiple hat tricks as a teenager.