{"id":766839,"date":"2026-06-29T01:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766839\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T01:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:51:08","slug":"ostapchuk-signs-4-year-9-4-million-contract-with-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766839\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostapchuk signs 4-year, $9.4 million contract with Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/zack-ostapchuk-8482859\" title=\"Zack Ostapchuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Ostapchuk<\/a> signed a four-year, $9.4 million contract with the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. The contract has an average annual value of $2.35 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old forward, who could have become a restricted free agent on July 1, had seven points (four goals, three assists) in 59 games this season. He was third on the Sharks with 140 hits.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Ottawa Senators in the second round (No. 39) of the 2021\u00a0NHL Draft, Ostapchuk has 11 points (five goals, six assists) in 122 regular-season games with the Senators and Sharks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zack Ostapchuk signed a four-year, $9.4 million contract with the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. The contract has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-766839","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\/766839","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=766839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}