{"id":120087,"date":"2026-01-04T21:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120087\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T21:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:42:19","slug":"san-jose-sharks-sign-alexander-wennberg-to-a-three-year-18-million-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120087\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks sign Alexander Wennberg to a three-year, $18 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 The San Jose Sharks have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/02\/macklin-celebrini-san-jose-sharks-alexander-wennberg-sweden-olympic-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Wennberg<\/a> to a three-year, $18 million contract, keeping the veteran center in the organization rather than trading him or letting him walk via free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Wennberg, 31, is tied for second on the Sharks with 19 assists and tied for third with 26 points on the year.<\/p>\n<p>Wennberg has 396 career points in 830 career games in the league with the Sharks, New York\u00a0 Rangers, Seattle Kraken, Florida Panthers and Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n<p>Wennberg is in the second year of a two-year, $10 million contract he signed with the Sharks on July 1, 2024. He was slated to become an unrestricted free agent this summer and could have been a sought-after player at the NHL trade deadline in March. Instead, the Sharks clearly felt that he was too valuable of a player to let walk away.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back for updates to this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 The San Jose Sharks have signed Alexander Wennberg to a three-year, $18 million contract, keeping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-120087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-headlines","11":"tag-san-jose-news","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}