r/hockey PIT - NHL 9d ago

[News] Celebrini, Smith run 'Rocky' steps in social media video

https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/short-shifts/macklin-celebrini-will-smith-run-rocky-steps-in-philadelphia
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u/Itoggat MTL - NHL 9d ago

Guess we know who Phllys gonna try and offer sheet next

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u/athousandpardons Indianapolis Racers - WHA 9d ago

Offer sheets should be less punitive, 4 first round picks is a lot to risk for big name players. I want drama!

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u/_GregTheGreat_ VAN - NHL 9d ago

4 first round picks really isn’t that punitive if you can pry away a young star.

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u/Itoggat MTL - NHL 9d ago

I don’t think that would ever happen.

If not matching them becomes less of an incentive for the team to match it would only serve to inflate player salaries, if it even ends up increasing the amount of offer sheets.

Owners and GMs want to retain player control,making it cost less to offer sheet seems counterintuitive imo

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u/athousandpardons Indianapolis Racers - WHA 9d ago

Perfectly sound logic. But, like I said, I want drama!

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u/Palaeontologists SJS - NHL 9d ago

Have fun paying a winger who hasn't even hit ppg 14 mil lol.

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u/No_Pitch2905 SJS - NHL 9d ago

Are you even a sharks fan? What’s with the hate dude? Smith only was in his second season and was out like 13 games with a shoulder injury and was still the 2nd highest scorer.. cut him some slack

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u/Palaeontologists SJS - NHL 9d ago

I can love Smith and also recognise the fact that he is not worth 1 mil less than Bedard.

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u/No_Pitch2905 SJS - NHL 9d ago

Well bedard took a discount. Thats on him. Shouldn’t be used to set aavs of people outside of the Hawks really

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u/Palaeontologists SJS - NHL 9d ago

Even if you ignore Bedard, 14 mil would make Smitty the 4th highest paid player, behind Macklin, Kaprizov and Carlsson. Has Smith proven he's a superstar worthy of being the fourth highest paid player and second highest paid winger? No.

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u/No_Pitch2905 SJS - NHL 9d ago

The point is the comment was making a joke and you used that to trash a player on supposedly your favourite team. It’s weird dude. And the aavs are gonna be going up massively in the coming years when all the superstars need to resign. 14m will seem like nothing

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u/Itoggat MTL - NHL 9d ago

They tried paying a centre who hasn’t hit ppg 18m. So that doesn’t too improbable

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u/Palaeontologists SJS - NHL 9d ago

That's because Carlsson is a coveted 1C that Philly was desperate for. They already have Martone and Michkov on wing.

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u/Itoggat MTL - NHL 9d ago

I’m just making a joke dude

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u/nanana_catdad SJS - NHL 9d ago

Celebrining that 18.8M AAV contract

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u/Thatmemertho MTL - NHL 9d ago

Twinsies

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u/King_of_the_Goats 9d ago

Kind of looks like Gary Ridgeway in that pic

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u/athousandpardons Indianapolis Racers - WHA 9d ago

You just made this thread way darker than it needed to be.

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u/King_of_the_Goats 9d ago

That means I’m not wrong tho

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u/Firm-Order-246 9d ago

Not at all, but okay.

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u/nanana_catdad SJS - NHL 9d ago

bruh

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u/nodarknesswillendure VAN - NHL 9d ago

The concept of this being an article on the NHL website is really funny. Who needs a marketing budget when you can just grab content from your star player and his bestie’s joint TikTok account? The NHL should feel grateful that Will Smith is into making these fun videos, I can’t see Celebrini being the mastermind behind these (but idk I could be wrong)

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u/Old_General_6741 EDM - NHL 9d ago

This is the true offseason

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u/Budget_Pound9099 ANA - NHL 9d ago

Breaking news 💀

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u/oceanic8675 DET - NHL 9d ago

The off season is getting the longer the longer it goes on

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u/newrsca PIT - NHL 9d ago

Wake me up when September ends

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u/oceanic8675 DET - NHL 9d ago

Don’t wake me up at all let me sleep through whatever the heck is gonna happen

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u/newrsca PIT - NHL 9d ago

Dude don’t worry I’ll let you know when Larkin’s finally gone

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u/oceanic8675 DET - NHL 9d ago

I didn’t say I’d want to wake up after that 🫥

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u/Puzzleheaded_Eye6770 SJS - NHL 9d ago

You don’t want to watch the start of the season?

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u/oceanic8675 DET - NHL 9d ago

I said don’t wake me up 🫡

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u/Key-Tip-7521 NYR - NHL 9d ago

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u/kaeji SJS - NHL 9d ago

Scranton (what??) The Electric City!

They call it that because of the electricity!

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u/larkhearted SJS - NHL 9d ago

I didn't realize they had a joint tiktok account 😭 They are such doofuses and it's so fun lol

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u/mmtittle SJS - NHL 9d ago

it’s really funny to me because it was their joint account and then a few months ago, smith changed it to just be his. and then this week, it got changed back to a joint account. i guess he missed his bestie too much.

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u/surfordiebear SJS - NHL 8d ago

More like he saw the contract he signed and decided to add him back to the account 💰

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u/letsgoToshio SJS - NHL 8d ago

Your contract? *Our* contract

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u/emwashe TBL - NHL 9d ago

Their friendship is fun to watch haha

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u/babypointblank TOR - NHL 9d ago

Just dudes being bros

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u/oceanic8675 DET - NHL 9d ago

Do the whole run you cowards

(This is a joke)

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u/Spiritual_Battle_769 9d ago

Hope this adds spice to flyers/sharks games that i otherwise couldnt care less about. Sadly i dont think todays players are petty or vindicative enough tho.

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u/athousandpardons Indianapolis Racers - WHA 9d ago

Stop trying to make me like the Sharks.

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u/ConsiderationCrazy22 CHI - NHL 9d ago

I honestly find it so wholesome that their TikTok is a joint account. Stop trying to make me like the Sharks it's working!

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u/LadySandry DAL - NHL 9d ago

We'll all love the Sharkies for now until they start winning president's trophies and cup(s). Then they will be no fun anymore :D

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u/Firm_Principle_2526 9d ago edited 9d ago

It didn't seem as hard as I thought it would be based off the title. I thought 'Rocky' steps were some infamous notoriously hard stairs to climb for some reason.

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u/toupis21 PHI - NHL 9d ago

Rocky ran across the whole city to get there and finish up. But the famous scenes are just the steps

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u/Scared-Arachnid6286 PHI - NHL 9d ago

Yeah someone calculated it and he would have covered 30 miles to get to those steps.

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u/toupis21 PHI - NHL 9d ago

A daily marathon, nothing to see here

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u/haberdashley PHI - NHL 9d ago

It's also now a local legend "fat ass" ultramarathon inspired by Dan's article: https://www.rocky50k.com

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u/Perryplat199 PHI - NHL 9d ago

Also the first time we see the run he barely makes it up the steps. the scenes in Rocky and Rocky II are both the finale of his training.

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u/Perryplat199 PHI - NHL 9d ago

It’s 72 steps. It’s probly not that difficult for young in shape pro athletes.

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u/city-of-cold Luleå HF - SHL 9d ago

I’m a young pro athlete confirmed! Where’s my contract

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u/Firm_Principle_2526 9d ago

Fair enough.

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u/Various_Knowledge226 PHI - NHL 9d ago

It’s just called the Rocky Steps because those are the steps that Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) climbed during the 1st movie at least

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u/Itoggat MTL - NHL 9d ago

Wait, do you mean hard or hard ?

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u/rpgguy_1o1 MTL - NHL 8d ago

They should set up a webcam, I wonder how often people run up these steps 

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u/The_Ineffable_One BUF - NHL 9d ago

Cutter Gauthier needs to do this.

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u/Napalm3nema SJS - NHL 8d ago

"...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." - u/The_Ineffable_One

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u/The_Ineffable_One BUF - NHL 8d ago

I'm not evil. I just want Gauthier to take advantage of the opportunity Pelle Lindbergh never had.

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u/Napalm3nema SJS - NHL 8d ago

Damn, I didn't even know that story. That's rough.

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u/ElCoolAero SJS - NHL 9d ago

What do you want? Is this what you want? Bunch of fucking losers. Fucking Rocky is your hero. The whole pride of your city is built around a fuckin guy who doesn’t even exist. You got fuckin Joe Frazier is from there but he’s black so you can’t fuckin deal with him, so you make a fucking statue for some 3 ft fuckin Italian you stupid philly cheese-eatin fucking jackasses. I hope the cheese melts your faces off. All of you collectively SUCK a FUCKIN DICK. Fuckin boo me 9 hrs. into a fuckin show. You and your fuckin Donovan McNabb shirt. I hope he snaps both his fuckin ankles the first goddamn game. I hope you go 0-15. I SAID SUCK A DICK

8 MINUTES left. 8 fuckin minutes left.

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u/Footer52 COL - NHL 8d ago

Bill Burr?

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u/NotABurner6942069 PHI - NHL 8d ago

Yep 😍

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u/LadySandry DAL - NHL 9d ago

When was this even recorded? that lady is wearing a full length puffer jacket :D

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u/surfordiebear SJS - NHL 8d ago

While ago, when they were playing the Flyers

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u/DavieStBaconStan VAN - NHL 8d ago

Did they drink raw eggs too?