{"id":180967,"date":"2026-02-17T03:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180967\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T03:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:06:16","slug":"sharks-place-skinner-on-waivers-to-terminate-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180967\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks place Skinner on waivers to terminate contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks placed forward <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/nhl\/players\/1700\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/nhl\/players\/1700\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Skinner<\/a> on waivers for the purpose of terminating his contract, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2023473129570660588\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Skinner will be free to sign with any team once he clears waivers and the termination is complete.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks signed Skinner to a one-year, $3-million contract as a free agent in the summer, but he&#8217;s failed to produce as expected, tallying six goals and seven assists in 32 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has averaged 28 goals and 25 assists per 82 contests across his 16-year NHL career, but his production has declined in recent seasons. He scored 35 goals in 2022-23 and 24 goals in 2023-24 before being bought out by the Buffalo Sabres. Skinner then managed 16 goals last campaign with the Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks placed forward Jeff Skinner on waivers for the purpose of terminating his contract, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-180967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180967","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=180967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}