{"id":670986,"date":"2026-05-28T23:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670986\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:11:14","slug":"sharks-sign-defenseman-phillip-sinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670986\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks sign defenseman Phillip Sinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Sharks (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SanJoseSharks\" rel=\"nofollow\">@SanJoseSharks<\/a>) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0signed defenseman\u00a0Phillip Sinn\u00a0to a\u00a0two-year\u00a0entry-level\u00a0contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhillip is a young defenseman who has\u00a0experience playing high level\u00a0hockey, and\u00a0competing against some of the best players in the world\u00a0in international\u00a0competition,\u201d said Grier. \u201cWe are happy to\u00a0have him in our organization\u00a0as he continues to develop.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sinn, 22, primarily spent his time last season with the EHC Munchen of the\u00a0Deutsche\u00a0Eishockey\u00a0Liga (DEL) in Germany,\u00a0recording three points (one goal, two assists) across 35 games. He additionally appeared in seven games, registering four assists, in the\u00a0second tier DEL for the ESV Kaufbeuren.\u00a0He also appeared in 11 postseason games for EHC Munchen.\u00a0He finished\u00a0tied\u00a0sixth among U-22\u00a0defensemen\u00a0in points in the\u00a0DEL,\u00a0and\u00a0led U-22 Munchen\u00a0blueliners\u00a0in his first season in the league.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Internationally,\u00a0Sinn has\u00a0represented Germany at the 2026\u00a0World Championship,\u00a0appearing in five games. He has also appeared at the World Junior Championship in 2023 and 2024, collectively\u00a0scoring seven points (two goals, five assists) in 10 games. He was named Captain of the squad in 2024.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-two,\u00a0194-pound\u00a0defenseman is a\u00a0native\u00a0of\u00a0Mannheim,\u00a0Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0signed defenseman\u00a0Phillip Sinn\u00a0to a\u00a0two-year\u00a0entry-level\u00a0contract.\u00a0 \u201cPhillip is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-670986","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\/670986","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=670986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}