{"id":382466,"date":"2026-07-01T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382466\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:34:11","slug":"breaking-sharks-sign-jacob-trouba-to-4-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382466\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Sharks Sign Jacob Trouba To 4-Year Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sharks\/news\/sharks-sign-defenseman-jacob-trouba\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">announce the<\/a> signing of defenseman Jacob Trouba to a four-year contract with an AAV of $8.25 million.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#SJSharks<\/a> sign Jacob Trouba to a 4-year deal at $8.25 million AAV<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Miller (@Real_Max_Miller) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Real_Max_Miller\/status\/2072377353964036279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trouba, 32, is a right-handed veteran defenseman of 906 career NHL games. Trouba has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/winnipeg-jets\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/new-york-rangers\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"726\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a>, and, most recently, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/anaheim-ducks\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"739\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. Last season, Trouba had a solid rebound-type season with the Ducks. In 81 games, the new San Jose Sharks defenseman had 10 goals and 25 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-3 defenseman will fill a massive hole on the right side of the blueline, as well as adding some physicality. Trouba had 143 hits last season. He will be a strong penalty killer and clog the middle of the ice, something the Sharks need badly.<\/p>\n<p>With reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/vincent-desharnais\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"655\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vincent Desharnais<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sheng_Peng\/status\/2072363978173640927?s=20\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">won\u2019t be<\/a> re-signing with the Sharks, Trouba will fill his role and likely be an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Trouba becomes GM <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/mike-grier\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Grier\u2019s<\/a> second signing today. <a href=\"https:\/\/sharkshockeydigest.com\/tag\/mason-marchment\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3221\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Marchment<\/a> was the first reported signing, but the team has yet to announce it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks announce the signing of defenseman Jacob Trouba to a four-year contract with an AAV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,10370,6755,9899,98,755,1707],"class_list":["post-382466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-jacob-trouba","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sj-sharks","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382466","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=382466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}