{"id":476155,"date":"2026-02-18T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476155\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:46:13","slug":"jeff-skinner-clears-waivers-after-sharks-waive-vet-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476155\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Skinner clears waivers after Sharks waive vet forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 17, 2026, 03:55 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; Veteran forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5540\/jeff-skinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Skinner<\/a> cleared waivers Tuesday after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/sj\/san-jose-sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> waived him the day before.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks said it was a mutual decision to part ways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to thank Jeff for his contributions to the organization, and wish him all the best,&#8221; Sharks general manager Mike Grier said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old, who signed a one-year, $3 million contract with San Jose, had six goals and seven assists in 32 games.<\/p>\n<p>Skinner has scored at least 30 goals six times and won the Calder Trophy in 2011 as the NHL&#8217;s top rookie while playing for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-hurricanes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He played in the postseason last season for the first time in his career, suiting up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/edm\/edmonton-oilers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 17, 2026, 03:55 PM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; Veteran forward Jeff Skinner cleared waivers Tuesday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-476155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476155","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=476155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}