{"id":787943,"date":"2026-07-08T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787943\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:42:10","slug":"the-future-is-now-sharks-send-a-message-with-offseason-additions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787943\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future is Now? Sharks Send a Message With Offseason Additions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sharks didn\u2019t add superstars in free agency this summer, and they still drastically lack a true number one defenseman, or even a number two for that matter. Despite that, the Sharks now have a total of three, arguably four depending on your view of Michael Kesselring, legitimate top-four defensemen. Last season, it could\u2019ve been argued they had just one, Dmitry Orlov. If you take salary out of the equation, it\u2019s hard to back an argument that the Sharks\u2019 current defensive corps of Nurse, Trouba, Orlov, and Kesselring isn\u2019t a dramatic improvement over last year\u2019s group that included John Klingberg, Nick Leddy, Shakir Mukhamadullin, and Mario Ferraro.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sharks didn\u2019t add superstars in free agency this summer, and they still drastically lack a true number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-787943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787943","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=787943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}