{"id":426861,"date":"2026-08-07T23:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426861\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:09:43","slug":"san-jose-barracuda-san-jose-barracuda-sign-forward-connor-lockhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/426861\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Barracuda | SAN JOSE BARRACUDA SIGN FORWARD CONNOR LOCKHART\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 06, 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> (@TheAHL) affiliate of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sjsharks.com\/\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> (@SanJoseSharks), 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\/413673\/connor-lockhart\">Connor Lockhart<\/a> to an AHL contract for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Lockhart, 23, skated in 70 games last season with the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/echl.com\/\">ECHL&#8217;s<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/wheelingnailers.com\/\">Wheeling Nailers<\/a>, leading the team in goals (21) while co-leading the club in points (55). He also recorded 82 penalty minutes and a plus-14 rating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">In his two professional seasons, both in the ECHL, he has skated in 138 games between the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/bloomingtonbisonhockey.com\/\">Bloomington Bison<\/a> and Nailers, recording 85 points (33 goals, 52 assists) and 140 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Prior to turning pro, the five-foot-nine, 185-pound native of Kanata, Ontario, spent four seasons in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl\/\">OHL<\/a> with the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-otters\/\">Erie Otters<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-petes\/\">Peterborough Petes<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/ohl-generals\/\">Oshawa Generals<\/a>, winning an OHL championship with the Petes in 2023.<\/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":"Aug 06, 2026 Written By: Nick Nollenberger San Jose, Calif. \u2013 The San Jose Barracuda (@SJBarracuda), top American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,3097],"class_list":["post-426861","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\/426861","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=426861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}