{"id":389150,"date":"2026-01-05T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389150\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:50:07","slug":"alexander-wennberg-sharks-agree-to-three-year-18m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389150\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Wennberg, Sharks agree to three-year, $18M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pending unrestricted free agent agreed to a three-year, $18-million extension with the Sharks, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SanJoseSharks\/status\/2007914648990064658?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Wennberg has enjoyed a solid one-and-a-half seasons since signing with the Sharks in the 2024 off-season, posting a total of 17 goals and 44 assists in 118 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old forward is among San Jose&#8217;s leading point-getters this year, as his 19 helpers rank second on the team and his 23 points are third-most.<\/p>\n<p>Since entering the league in 2013 as a first-round pick, Wennberg skated in 830 games between the Sharks, Panthers, Kraken, Blue Jackets and Rangers. He&#8217;s logged 396 points (108 goals, 288 assists), and added another 19 points (eight goals, 11 assists) in 58 post-season matches.<\/p>\n<p>Wennberg was named to Sweden&#8217;s roster for the upcoming Milano Cortina Olympics on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pending unrestricted free agent agreed to a three-year, $18-million extension with the Sharks, the team announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-389150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}