{"id":382818,"date":"2026-07-01T23:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382818\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:46:23","slug":"san-jose-sharks-acquire-darnell-nurse-big-contract-from-edmonton-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382818\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks acquire Darnell Nurse, big contract from Edmonton Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014\u00a0The San Jose Sharks\u2019 transformation on defense continued on Wednesday, as they acquired veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nurseda01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defenseman Darnell Nurse<\/a> from the Edmonton Oilers for defensemen Shakir Mukhamadullin and prospect\u00a0forward Zack Sharp.<\/p>\n<p>Nurse has four years left on his <a href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/player\/darnell-nurse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-year, $74 million<\/a> contract he signed with the Oilers in 2021. The Sharks, flush with salary cap space, are taking on all of Nurse\u2019s $9.25 million cap hit.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks earlier Wednesday signed free agent right-shot defenseman Jacob Trouba to a four-year, $33 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDarnell is a strong, veteran, mobile defenseman who eats up top-pair minutes against some of the best talents in the NHL, and brings a physical element every shift,\u201d Sharks general manager Mike Grier said in a statement. \u201cHe brings significant leadership qualities and experience from his time in Edmonton, which will be valuable to our group. We\u2019re excited to have a player like him join our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coming off an inconsistent season with the Oilers in which he had just 24 points, his lowest total since 2016-17, Nurse, who turns 32 in February, had requested a trade from Edmonton last month. Nurse, who has a full no-movement clause in his contract for this upcoming season, was reportedly looking to join the Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers or Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>But when a trade with those teams did not materialize, Nurse expanded his list to include the Sharks, who are hoping to make the playoffs next season after a seven-year postseason drought. Nurse has 324 points and a plus-66 rating in 798 career NHL games.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks now have $14 million in available cap space.<\/p>\n<p>Mukhamadullin, a restricted free agent, just finished his first full NHL season and had 12 points in 50 games.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back for updates to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014\u00a0The San Jose Sharks\u2019 transformation on defense continued on Wednesday, as they acquired veteran defenseman Darnell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[401,402,181,404,88,90,89,98,403,94685,127],"class_list":["post-382818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-hockey","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sharks-alert","tag-social-alert","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382818","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=382818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}