{"id":379609,"date":"2026-06-29T19:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379609\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:09:23","slug":"sharks-sign-michael-kesselring-to-a-three-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379609\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks sign Michael Kesselring to a three-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Sharks (<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001gs-U9HoAJ7gdIifKV4_v6dQOyycY0sAmsqOWlBtqrVs_SFcM-owx5pgpCM2r5AA2p5V7YZJ3Xfkjaqyzhr_ojmDZ7fkiO9A3gGF1dwmVtCv6PuSnPHhTrVpUBB0ADyEACyObkWxRQnfXfQuXRVa3vjzaa5IaQjjb-Hlpev4lEJuXq8KOIkb8gA==&amp;c=yr-3KucZcSvtoyq4R-wBwzxb-SUUMoaKkoGwfh1C5PKR4IQCcZhHgQ==&amp;ch=riuSWJY4hvIlryJe61lgJcR4003RUxpLrL0SpBANybdI5qasPa3g9g==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@SanJoseSharks<\/a>) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0signed\u00a0defenseman\u00a0Michael Kesselring\u00a0to a three-year contract worth $4.5 million AAV.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kesselring, 26, recorded two assists in 34 games last season for Buffalo, making his debut for the team on Oct. 25 vs. the Columbus Blue Jackets.\u00a0Despite being limited by injuries during the season, he ranked third among team skaters in blocked shots per 60 (5.00). He\u00a0also\u00a0appeared in one game for the\u00a0Sabres\u00a0in the postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of his NHL career, Kesselring has appeared in 190 NHL games for the Arizona Coyotes, Utah Mammoth, and\u00a0Sabres, scoring 55 points (12 goals, 43 assists). In his second full season in the NHL with Utah, he appeared in all 82 games, scoring 29 points (seven goals, 22 assists).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, he has represented Team USA at the 2024 and 2025 World Championship, recording seven total points (three goals, four assists) in 17 games between the two tournaments. In 2025, under Sharks Head Coach Ryan Warsofsky, he helped Team USA win a gold medal for the first time in 92 years at the tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-five, 215-pound native of Florence, SC was originally selected by Edmonton in the 2018 NHL Draft (6th\u00a0round, 164th\u00a0overall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0signed\u00a0defenseman\u00a0Michael Kesselring\u00a0to a three-year contract worth $4.5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-379609","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\/379609","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=379609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}