{"id":378833,"date":"2026-06-29T02:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378833\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:01:09","slug":"ostapchuk-signs-4-year-9-4-million-contract-with-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378833\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostapchuk signs 4-year, $9.4 million contract with Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/zack-ostapchuk-8482859\" title=\"Zack Ostapchuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zack Ostapchuk<\/a> signed a four-year, $9.4 million contract with the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. The contract has an average annual value of $2.35 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old forward, who could have become a restricted free agent on July 1, had seven points (four goals, three assists) in 59 games this season. He was third on the Sharks with 140 hits.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Ottawa Senators in the second round (No. 39) of the 2021\u00a0NHL Draft, Ostapchuk has 11 points (five goals, six assists) in 122 regular-season games with the Senators and Sharks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zack Ostapchuk signed a four-year, $9.4 million contract with the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. The contract has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-378833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378833","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=378833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}