{"id":382893,"date":"2026-07-02T00:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382893\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T00:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:55:16","slug":"what-im-hearing-during-day-1-of-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382893\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Hearing During Day 1 of Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Jose Sharks will try to make the playoffs next year. So they could be big players, via trade or free agency, on Jul. 1.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a running diary of what I\u2019m hearing today.<\/p>\n

12:54 PM<\/p>\n

This is how things appear to be unfolding:<\/p>\n

Nurse to SJ<\/p>\n

Shakir Mukhamadullin will be part the return <\/p>\n

There will be no retention by the Oilers<\/p>\n

We await the final picture https:\/\/t.co\/HlJah24rzn<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

12:30 PM<\/p>\n

Welcome to the Sharks, Andre!<\/p>\n

\u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

12:26 PM<\/p>\n

Coming soon to a San Jose net, Eric Comrie! \ud83e\udd45<\/p>\n

\u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

12:00 PM<\/p>\n

NEWS | The Washington Capitals have signed defenseman Vincent Desharnais to a four-year, $16.8 million contract. Desharnais\u2019 contract will carry an average annual value of $4.2 million.#ALLCAPS<\/a> | @Shift4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Washington Capitals (@Capitals) July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

10:51 AM<\/p>\n

Welcome to San Jose Jacob Trouba. \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n

\u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

9:56 AM<\/p>\n

Hearing Desharnais “unlikely” to return to #SJSharks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s a shame, great personality and fit in the locker room, terrific PK’er<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

9:30 AM<\/p>\n

Mason Marchment sounds like he’s headed to San Jose\u2026long-time home of father Bryan in both an on- and off-ice role<\/p>\n

Word is 5 years, approx $7M AAV<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

9:00 AM<\/p>\n

Wonder if the San Jose Sharks could circle back, but right now, don\u2019t think that they\u2019ve reached out on defenseman Ian Cole. They do need to add blueliners, at least a couple.<\/p>\n

Mario Ferraro, Vincent Desharnais, John Klingberg, Nick Leddy, Ryan Reaves, and Pavol Regenda, along with Colin White and Laurent Brossoit are officially UFA\u2019s. Lucas Carlsson signed in Sweden in May.<\/p>\n

The Mason Marchment<\/a> chatter to the San Jose Sharks makes sense, as outlined in SJHN\u2019s free agency preview a few days ago. Jason Demers also talked him up on the San Jose Hockey Now Podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks will try to make the playoffs next year. So they could be big players,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[28086,154672,55945,88,90,89,98,4218],"class_list":["post-382893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-free-agency","tag-ian-cole","tag-mason-marchment","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-vincent-desharnais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382893","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=382893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}