{"id":120249,"date":"2026-01-05T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120249\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:01:29","slug":"san-jose-sharks-sign-alexander-wennberg-to-a-three-year-18m-contract-extension-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120249\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks sign Alexander Wennberg to a three-year, $18M contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The San Jose Sharks signed forward Alexander Wennberg to a three-year, $18 million contract extension on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Wennberg was set to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season before reaching the deal to stay in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Wennberg has seven goals and 19 assists this season and was picked to be part of Sweden&#8217;s team at the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Milan Cortina Winter Olympics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Milan Cortina Winter Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wennberg has 108 goals and 288 assists in 830 career games with San Jose, the New York Rangers, Seattle, Florida and Columbus. He signed as a free agent with the Sharks before last season.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/NHL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/NHL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/NHL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The San Jose Sharks signed forward Alexander Wennberg to a three-year, $18 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2094,553,63419,6755,88,90,89,98,7853,63420],"class_list":{"0":"post-120249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-alexander-wennberg","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-milan-cortina-winter-olympics","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-headlines","14":"tag-san-jose-news","15":"tag-san-jose-sharks","16":"tag-seattle","17":"tag-unrestricted-free-agent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120249","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=120249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}