Jeff Skinner will be continuing his career in Switzerland with EHC Biel-Bienne, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n
It is a one-year contract for Skinner, who went unsigned after becoming an unrestricted free agent in February.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old forward began last season with the San Jose Sharks<\/a> after signing a one-year, $3 million deal. He recorded six goals and 13 points in 32 games with the Sharks before he cleared unconditional waivers on Feb. 17.<\/p>\n Drafted seventh overall by the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> in 2010, Skinner has 379 goals and 712 points in 1,110 career games split between the Hurricanes, Buffalo Sabres<\/a>, Edmonton Oilers<\/a>, and Sharks. <\/p>\n Skinner recorded 16 goals and 29 points in 72 games with the Oilers in 2024-25, helping the team to their second of back-to-back Stanley Cup Final appearances. <\/p>\n The Toronto native\u202fhas\u202frepresented Canada four times at the World Hockey Championship, taking home a silver medal in 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Skinner will be continuing his career in Switzerland with EHC Biel-Bienne, the team announced Friday. It is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-858117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858117","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=858117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}