{"id":407399,"date":"2026-07-22T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407399\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:15:09","slug":"sharks-michael-kesselring-connected-to-love-island-usa-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407399\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks\u2019 Michael Kesselring connected to \u2018Love Island USA\u2019 \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026-27 NHL season doesn&#8217;t start for another three months, but the league dropped a &#8220;bombshell&#8221; announcement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sharks\/player\/michael-kesselring-8480891\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Kessering<\/a> is cousins with Love Island USA Season 8 contestant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/blog\/kayda-love-island-usa-bombshell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kayda Bosse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The newly acquired Shark played 34 games for the Buffalo Sabres last season and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/stats\/_\/id\/4331604\/michael-kesselring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has played<\/a> in 190 over the course of his NHL career while compiling 12 goals and 43 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was acquired in a June trade from the Sabres along with the No. 27 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft for the Sharks\u2019 No. 20 selection.<\/p>\n<p>He signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/sharks\/news\/sharks-sign-michael-kesselring-to-a-three-year-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-year contract<\/a> with San Jose for an annual average of $4.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Bosse from New Hampshire finished in fourth place in Season 8 of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the intrigue of the Kesselring-Love Island USA connection is the fact that the Sharks will have a \u201cSharks x Love Island\u201d game on Jan. 8 of this season.<\/p>\n<p>That could make for one fascinating family reunion between the defenseman and his cousin, who was prominently featured on the reality dating show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4l4mpADVRh5IPCdD2uRw1i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the San Jose Hockey Now podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026-27 NHL season doesn&#8217;t start for another three months, but the league dropped a &#8220;bombshell&#8221; announcement on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[66125,88,90,89,98],"class_list":["post-407399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-michael-kesselring","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407399","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=407399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}