{"id":335354,"date":"2026-05-28T02:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:07:11","slug":"san-jose-sharks-re-sign-barracuda-forward-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335354\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks Re-Sign Barracuda Forward to One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Huntington will be returning to the Bay Area for the 2026-27 season, as the 27-year-old forward signed a one-year contract extension with the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/teams\/san-jose\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose Sharks;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Jose Sharks&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Huntington&#8217;s new contract carries a cap hit of $850k at the NHL level.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Huntington joined the Sharks organization last season and spent the entirety of the 2025-26 campaign with their American Hockey League affiliate, the San Jose Barracuda. There were some question marks surrounding him entering the season, as he missed almost the entire 2024-25 season with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Those concerns were quickly put to rest though, as Huntington was able to have a strong bounce-back season at TechCU Arena. In 71 regular season games, he scored 15 goals, the second most in his professional career, set a new career-high in assists with 33 and set another career high in points with 48. He also registered a new career high in penalty minutes with 60.<\/p>\n<p>After a disappointing team performance in the playoffs, Huntington will look to help lead the Barracuda to his second career Calder Cup, as he previously won it in 2024 as a member of the Hershey Bears. At the same time, he&#8217;s yet to make his NHL debut and another strong performance for the Barracuda could put him in consideration to earn a chance at that level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Huntington will be returning to the Bay Area for the 2026-27 season, as the 27-year-old forward signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[20859,12898,3860,88,97,90,89,98],"class_list":["post-335354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-american-hockey-league","tag-huntington","tag-jimmy-huntington","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-barracuda","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335354","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=335354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}