San Jose Sharks
Celebrini, Warsofsky Still Not Sure Why Sharks Star Received Unsportsmanlike Conduct Penalty
LAS VEGAS — “It’s a non-issue.”
That’s what San Jose Sharks head coach Ryan Warsofsky said, and how both he and center Macklin Celebrini see Celebrini’s double-minor penalty on Friday versus the Vancouver Canucks.
1:24 left, 3-2 San Jose Sharks’ lead, Celebrini was called for cross-checking Filip Hronek, then given an unsportsmanlike conduct by the officials.
“That’s soft!”
– Macklin Celebrini (notable goon) pic.twitter.com/i0jUlLJaIh— SnipeCity420 (@SnipeCity420) November 28, 2025
A day later, both Celebrini and Warsofsky were still not sure why the young San Jose Sharks star was given the extra two.
“I didn’t agree with the call,” Celebrini told San Jose Hockey Now. “I certainly don’t believe that what I said before the box deserved [an extra penalty]. I didn’t swear, I didn’t come at them.”
“It’s not like it was over the top. He didn’t swear. I asked the ref if he swore,” Warsofsky said of Celebrini’s initial reaction to the cross-checking penalty. “We didn’t agree with the [initial] call. I thought it was a little weak to give him an extra two.”
This was the explanation that Warsofsky got for the unsportsmanlike conduct: “[The ref] did say he didn’t like how we pointed, to be honest.”
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Refs should do post game press conferences.
Also, I’d like to see ref stats like we get MLB umpire stats. It would obviously be different because hockey calls are subjective, while baseball is very cut and dry. But still, I’d expect to see trends with each ref in regards to specific calls. (If this exists please let me know!) I wanna see who’s calling or not calling a lot of hooking penalties, calling interference, handing out majors, missing high sticks, kicking centers out of the draw, goal calls overturned, goalie interference, penalty shots, bench minors, unsportsmanlike penalties, all that stuff…
no to the refs doing postgame pressers. That’d be brutal and no one would come out better off for it. I do imagine teams track refs. You want to know what you’re more likely to get away with, and what you’re not. I also suspect they track penalties by period and know which refs swallow their whistles and which ones don’t. But … the NHL does need to hold refs accountable. I don’t know how many get removed, but it ought to average a handful per year. Its a tough job, but not every aspect is tough. The uncalled crosscheck… Read more »
More bullshit from the officials tonight so far.
call was soft and on the back of a number of bad calls. The ref became the story. He had a bad night. Let the players play.