{"id":420012,"date":"2026-07-31T21:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420012\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:45:54","slug":"graf-signs-3-year-12-75-million-contract-with-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420012\/","title":{"rendered":"Graf signs 3-year, $12.75 million contract with Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/collin-graf-8484911\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collin Graf<\/a> signed a three-year, $12.75 million contract with the San Jose Sharks on Friday. It has an average annual value of $4.25 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old forward had NHL career-highs in goals (21), assists (25) and points (46) in 81 games for the Sharks last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollin was a big part of our team\u2019s improvement this past season, being an effective penalty killer for us and his versatility in the lineup was extremely valuable,\u201d Sharks general manager Mike Grier said. \u201cHis hard-working attitude and work ethic is a big reason why his game took another stride last year, and he continues to be an important person in our young group of players. We\u2019re happy we are able to keep him a Shark for the next several seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An undrafted free agent who signed with San Jose on April 4, 2024, Graf has 59 points (26 goals, 33 assists) in 121 NHL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collin Graf signed a three-year, $12.75 million contract with the San Jose Sharks on Friday. It has an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-420012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420012","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=420012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}