- Celebrini has 178 career points, five shy of the other nine 2024 top-10 picks combined
- Three of those nine picks have yet to play an NHL game
- Read below for the full point totals from the 2024 top 10
Macklin Celebrini has almost outscored his entire draft class by himself.
The Sharks center owns 178 points through 152 NHL games. Every other player taken in the 2024 top 10 has combined for 183. Five points is the whole gap.
Here’s how the class stacks up two years in:
Three of those nine have not played a single NHL game. Cayden Lindstrom, Tij Iginla and Anton Silayev all sit on zeros, and Carter Yakemchuk has four games to his name. That drags the group number down in a hurry.
| Pick | Player | Team | GP | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macklin Celebrini | SJS | 152 | 178 |
| 2 | Artyom Levshunov | CHI | 86 | 30 |
| 3 | Beckett Sennecke | ANA | 82 | 60 |
| 4 | Cayden Lindstrom | CBJ | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Ivan Demidov | MTL | 84 | 64 |
| 6 | Tij Iginla | UTA | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Carter Yakemchuk | OTT | 4 | 2 |
| 8 | Berkly Catton | SEA | 66 | 17 |
| 9 | Zayne Parekh | CGY | 38 | 10 |
| 10 | Anton Silayev | NJD | 0 | 0 |
Most of Celebrini’s total came last season. He put up 45 goals and 70 assists in 82 games and finished fourth in league scoring behind Connor McDavid, Nikita Kucherov and Nathan MacKinnon. His rookie year was no throwaway either, with 63 points in 70 games.
Ivan Demidov leads the chase group at 64 points in 84 games, and Beckett Sennecke sits right behind him with 60 in 82. Both look like long-term top-six forwards. Neither is close to Celebrini’s rate.
San Jose already paid him like the gap is real. The Sharks signed Celebrini to a five-year extension at an $18.8 million cap hit this week, making him the highest-paid player in the NHL.
Levshunov, Demidov and the rest of the class still have plenty of runway to close ground. Catching a center who hung 115 points on the league at 19 is a different project entirely.
