{"id":208688,"date":"2026-03-07T07:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208688\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:25:20","slug":"san-jose-sharks-sign-goaltender-alex-nedeljkovic-to-two-year-6-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208688\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks sign goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic to two-year, $6 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> have signed goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alex-nedeljkovic\/8477968\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alex-nedeljkovic\/8477968\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> to a two-year, $6 million contract extension on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nedeljkovic, 30, has a 11-9-2 record this season with a .902 save percentage and 2.83 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was acquired by the Sharks in the off-season from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> in exchange for a draft pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot netminder is in the final season of a two-year, $5 million contract that carries a cap hit of $2.5 million and was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 37th overall by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> in 2014, Nedeljkovic has an 85-69-29 record with a 2.97 GAA and .903 save percentage split between the Hurricanes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>, Penguins, and Sharks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Parma, Ohio, native represented the United States at the 2024 World Hockey Championship in a fifth-place finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks have signed goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic to a two-year, $6 million contract extension on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96176,6013,88,90,89,9685],"class_list":["post-208688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-alex-nedeljkovic-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477968","tag-apple-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208688","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=208688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}