{"id":204247,"date":"2026-03-04T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204247\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:49:07","slug":"san-jose-sharks-kiefer-sherwood-near-agreement-on-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204247\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks, Kiefer Sherwood near agreement on new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2013 It appears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/03\/03\/san-jose-sharks-nhl-trade-deadline-kiefer-sherwood-montreal-canadiens-vancouver-canucks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiefer Sherwood<\/a> will be staying with the San Jose Sharks for the long term.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood, <a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/player\/kiefer-sherwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a pending unrestricted free agent,<\/a> and the Sharks are nearing an agreement on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/03\/02\/nhl-trade-deadline-macklin-celebrini-mike-grier-kiefer-sherwood\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a five-year contract extension<\/a> that would carry an average annual value of just under $6 million, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood had his best game in a teal uniform on Tuesday, scoring the go-ahead goal late in the third period and adding a workmanlike assist<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/03\/03\/celebrini-sherwood-come-up-large-as-sharks-earn-thrilling-win-over-canadiens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> in San Jose\u2019s 7-5 win<\/a> over the Montreal Canadiens at SAP Center. This season, Sherwood has 18 goals and 25 points in 49 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks (30-25-4) acquired Sherwood, who turns 31 later this month, from the Vancouver Canucks in January with the hope of keeping him past this season. It was just a matter of whether the two sides could reach an agreement on an extension, one that would likely make Sherwood one of San Jose\u2019s highest-paid wingers, before Friday\u2019s NHL trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the Sharks acquired Sherwood, though, there were reports that the two sides were far apart in early contract extension talks, with Judd Moldaver representing Sherwood.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood is in the final year of a two-year, $3 million deal that carries an average annual value of $1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As just mentioned on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FAN590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FAN590<\/a> Believe this will be a five-year deal, just under a $6M AAV when completed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6uJpi9Kc1R\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/6uJpi9Kc1R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2029258040948445243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully things will take care of itself sooner than later,\u201d Sherwood told Bay Area News Group on Tuesday. \u201cMy focus has just been on playing, and I trust (Moldaver). He\u2019s going to take care of everything like that. I\u2019ve got a lot of faith in him for whatever happens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just focused on playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Please check back for updates on this story.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 It appears Kiefer Sherwood will be staying with the San Jose Sharks for the long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,404,88,90,89,98,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-204247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-san-jose-sharks","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204247","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=204247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}