{"id":409912,"date":"2026-07-23T21:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409912\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:15:34","slug":"san-jose-barracuda-barracuda-sign-forward-ryley-appelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409912\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Barracuda | BARRACUDA SIGN FORWARD RYLEY APPELT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Written By: Nick Nollenberger<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">San Jose, Calif. \u2013 The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sjbarracuda.com\/\">San Jose Barracuda<\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sjbarracuda\">@SJBarracuda<\/a>), top <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/theahl.com\/\">American Hockey League<\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theahl\">@TheAHL<\/a>) affiliate of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sjsharks.com\/\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sanjosesharks\">@SanJoseSharks<\/a>), and General Manager Joe Will announced today that the team has signed forward <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/281711\/ryley-appelt\">Ryley Appelt<\/a> (APP-elt) to an AHL contract for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Appelt, 26, spent the entire 2025-26 campaign with the ECHL&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/atlantagladiators.com\/\">Atlanta Gladiators<\/a>, appearing in 26 games while recording one goal and 56 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Prior to last year, Appelt played four years at <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macewangriffins.ca\/sports\/mice\/index\">Grant MacEwan University<\/a>, in his hometown of Edmonton, Alberta. During that span he skated in 77 games, totaling 13 points (nine goals, four assists) and 96 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Before beginning his collegiate career, Appelt spent three seasons in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/whl.ca\/\">Western Hockey League<\/a> (WHL) with the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-blazers\/\">Kamloops Blazers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 23, 2026 Written By: Nick Nollenberger San Jose, Calif. \u2013 The San Jose Barracuda (@SJBarracuda), top American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,3097],"class_list":["post-409912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks-ahl-hockey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409912","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=409912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}