{"id":207918,"date":"2026-03-06T21:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207918\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:17:26","slug":"sharks-acquire-2026-fourth-round-selection-from-washington-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207918\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks acquire 2026 fourth-round selection from Washington Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SanJoseSharks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@SanJoseSharks<\/a>) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced\u00a0today that the club has\u00a0acquired\u00a0a fourth-round\u00a0selection\u00a0originally belonging to the Vegas Golden Knights from the Washington Capitals in exchange for defenseman Timothy Liljegren.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Liljegren,\u00a026, has tallied 11 points (one goal, 10 assists) over 43 games this season with San Jose. He totaled 28 points (seven goals, 21 assists) in 110 games with the club over the past two seasons\u00a0after being\u00a0acquired\u00a0from the Toronto Maple\u00a0Leafs\u00a0on October 30, 2024. In his NHL career, Liljegren has amassed 93 points (21 goals, 72 assists) in 307 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0six-foot-one, 200-pound native of Kristianstad, Sweden\u00a0was\u00a0originally selected by Toronto in the 2017 NHL Draft (first round, 17th\u00a0overall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks\u00a0(@SanJoseSharks) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced\u00a0today that the club has\u00a0acquired\u00a0a fourth-round\u00a0selection\u00a0originally belonging to the Vegas Golden Knights from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-207918","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\/207918","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=207918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}