{"id":23183,"date":"2025-07-20T06:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/23183\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:11:07","slug":"how-would-i-grade-sharks-off-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/23183\/","title":{"rendered":"How Would I Grade Sharks’ Off-Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How would I grade the San Jose Sharks\u2019 off-season?<\/p>\n

It appears as if the Sharks don\u2019t have too much left up their sleeve this summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say we probably are finished,\u201d GM Mike Grier<\/a> said last week.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s review each move\u2026overall grade at the end!<\/p>\n

William Eklund<\/p>\n

The Sharks inked their 22-year-old star winger, who broke out with a career-high 58 points last season, to a three-year, $16.8 million extension ($5.6 million AAV) that kicks in 2026-27.<\/p>\n

That figure was in line with San Jose Hockey Now\u2019s prediction about William Eklund<\/a>\u2018s extension in early June: \u201cIf Eklund and the Sharks discuss three or four-year extensions, over $5 million AAV seems like a realistic possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

So no argument with the not my money anyway.<\/p>\n

The Sharks, however, may regret not locking up their budding star to more years\u2026but Eklund is not a sure thing to develop into a playoff-caliber first-line winger either. From Eklund\u2019s perspective, he\u2019s sick of losing, so hopefully the team is truly on the way up.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s couple who loves each other, but isn\u2019t sure if they\u2019re ready to get married yet.<\/p>\n

Grade: A<\/p>\n

John Klingberg<\/p>\n

Klingberg, 32, signed a one-year, $4 million contract with the Sharks.<\/p>\n

If healthy, the 6-foot-2 right-hander should prove to be a bargain. In his prime, he was one of the top offensive defenseman in the NHL, and he looked spry during the Edmonton Oilers\u2019 Stanley Cup Final run.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s also played just 25 regular season games over the last two years because of hip issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How would I grade the San Jose Sharks\u2019 off-season? It appears as if the Sharks don\u2019t have too…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[6514,6518,831,6403,5697,6521,4273,385,6526,6528,4275,835,99,447,6537],"class_list":["post-23183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alex-nedeljkovic","tag-dmitry-orlov","tag-featured","tag-free-agency","tag-jeff-skinner","tag-john-klingberg","tag-mike-grier","tag-nhl","tag-nick-leddy","tag-philipp-kurashev","tag-ryan-reaves","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports","tag-trade","tag-william-eklund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}