San Jose Sharks forward Tyler Toffoli recently spent a few days visiting with teammate Macklin Celebrini and got a firsthand look at the teenager’s rigorous offseason training habits.

Toffoli, who had been doing on-ice work with Sharks development coach Mike Ricci in San Jose, went to Vancouver earlier this month to spend time with the Celebrini family and help Macklin celebrate his 19th birthday. However, the visit was anything but relaxing for the 33-year-old Toffoli, who was put through the paces by the ultra-fit — and competitive — Celebrini family.

“It was a borderline training camp that I threw myself into,” Toffoli said Wednesday on ‘The Fan Hockey Show’ on Sportsnet radio in Canada. “I thought I had been skating hard (with Ricci) … and I went up there, and the first day I said, ‘Oh, I might not make it.’”

Toffoli said he did the ‘Grouse Grind,’ a 1.55-mile trail up the face of Grouse Mountain in Vancouver, with Macklin and his older brother Aiden, a Canucks prospect defenseman who just finished his sophomore season at Boston University.

Toffoli said Macklin that day did the hike, referred to as ‘Mother Nature’s Stairmaster,’ in 39 minutes.

“I think I did it in an hour,” said Toffoli, adding that his agent, Pat Brisson, checked on him a couple of times while he was training with Celebrini. “I’m going to say it was the knee’s fault on that one.”

Toffoli said Macklin does the Grouse Grind about three times a week.

“The whole family does it,” he said. “They are an unbelievable family. I stayed with them the four days I was there, and it was a great time. It was definitely cool to see how committed (Macklin) is and how hard he’s working. I’m excited to see what he does next year.”

With the NHL Draft coming up later this week, Toffoli, who will be entering his 14th NHL season and his second with the Sharks, said he takes summer training much more seriously now than he did when he was in his draft year in 2010.

In 2010, Toffoli believed he would be drafted midway through the first round after he had 79 points, including 37 goals, with the OHL’s Ottawa 67s that season. But looking back, Toffoli felt that his commitment to fitness wasn’t up to par as an 18-year-old, which led to him slipping in the draft; the Los Angeles Kings selected him 47th overall.

Toffoli has 575 points and 290 goals in 890 career NHL games. He scored a team-leading 30 goals for the Sharks this past season, marking the third straight year he’s hit that mark. He scored 34 for the Calgary Flames in 2022-23, and 33 the following year when he played for both the New Jersey Devils and Winnipeg Jets.

“Growing up, I was always a high-end talent, but never really took the off-ice relatively seriously in the gym,” said Toffoli, who is fifth in goals among players drafted in 2010. “And I found that out at the combine. That was a big learning curve for me, and going to the draft was a really eye-opening experience.

“It definitely curved my career, because I knew that I had to get the gym and figure that stuff out. So yeah, the draft experience wasn’t very good for me, but very eye-opening.”

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Another wake-up call for Toffoli was attending his first Kings training camp and seeing how fit the team’s veterans were.

“I hadn’t really seen any NHL players train, or I never saw them in the gym,” Toffoli said. “Really, it was always guys my age. Not to sound like a jerk, but everybody my age, I could score more goals, and I could do more on the ice, better than almost anyone. So in my opinion, I was good and in the clear.

“And then once I got to L.A. in my first training camp, I saw guys that were completely shredded and just animals that could also score as well (as I could). So that was definitely, in my opinion, probably a bigger eye-opener. But the combine was definitely the starter for me.”