{"id":743355,"date":"2026-06-18T00:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/743355\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:21:16","slug":"sharks-acquire-michael-kesselring-and-the-27th-overall-selection-from-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/743355\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks acquire Michael Kesselring and the 27th overall selection from Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Sharks (<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001gs-U9HoAJ7gdIifKV4_v6dQOyycY0sAmsqOWlBtqrVs_SFcM-owx5pgpCM2r5AA2p5V7YZJ3Xfkjaqyzhr_ojmDZ7fkiO9A3gGF1dwmVtCv6PuSnPHhTrVpUBB0ADyEACyObkWxRQnfXfQuXRVa3vjzaa5IaQjjb-Hlpev4lEJuXq8KOIkb8gA==&amp;c=yr-3KucZcSvtoyq4R-wBwzxb-SUUMoaKkoGwfh1C5PKR4IQCcZhHgQ==&amp;ch=riuSWJY4hvIlryJe61lgJcR4003RUxpLrL0SpBANybdI5qasPa3g9g==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@SanJoseSharks<\/a>) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0acquired\u00a0defenseman\u00a0Michael Kesselring\u00a0and the 2026 27th\u00a0overall\u00a0selection\u00a0from the Buffalo\u00a0Sabres\u00a0in exchange for the 20th\u00a0overall\u00a0selection\u00a0(Edmonton\u2019s\u00a0selection).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichael\u00a0has a big frame with solid two-way ability,\u201d said Grier. \u201cHe is a responsible player in the defensive zone\u00a0with a\u00a0well rounded\u00a0offensive\u00a0game,\u00a0and\u00a0will be a good upgrade for us patrolling the blueline.\u00a0We\u2019re\u00a0happy to have him a part of the organization.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kesselring, 26, recorded two assists in 34 games last season for Buffalo, making his debut for the team on Oct. 28 vs. the Columbus Blue Jackets. Despite being limited by injuries during the season, he ranked third among team skaters in blocked shots per 60 (5.00). He also appeared in one game for the Sabres in the postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his NHL career, Kesselring has appeared in 190 NHL games for the Arizona Coyotes, Utah Mammoth, and\u00a0Sabres, scoring 55 points (12 goals, 43 assists). In his second full season in the NHL with Utah, he appeared in\u00a0all 82\u00a0games, scoring 29 points (seven goals, 22 assists).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, he\u00a0has represented\u00a0Team USA at the 2024 and 2025 World Championship, recording seven total points (three goals, four assists) in 17 games between the two tournaments. In 2025, under Sharks Head Coach Ryan Warsofsky, he helped Team USA win a gold medal for the first time in 92 years at the tournament.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-five, 215-pound native of Florence, SC was originally selected by Edmonton in the 2018 NHL Draft (6th round, 164th overall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0acquired\u00a0defenseman\u00a0Michael Kesselring\u00a0and the 2026 27th\u00a0overall\u00a0selection\u00a0from the Buffalo\u00a0Sabres\u00a0in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-743355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}