{"id":683089,"date":"2026-06-04T03:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683089\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T03:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:23:09","slug":"verhoeff-on-meeting-sharks-late-season-drop-in-points-his-dream-goalie-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683089\/","title":{"rendered":"Verhoeff on Meeting Sharks, Late-Season Drop in Points, His Dream Goalie Mask (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO \u2014 Keaton Verhoeff, before this season, was considered the top defenseman of the 2026 Draft.<\/p>\n<p>And the University of North Dakota right-hander still might be, despite an up-and-down campaign, if the San Jose Sharks make him the No. 2 pick.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks have interviewed Verhoeff and are taking him out to dinner on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-4 defender spoke with San Jose Hockey Now about the possibility of the San Jose Sharks drafting him, playing goalie until he was 11, his late-season drop in productivity, and what would be on his dream goalie mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO \u2014 Keaton Verhoeff, before this season, was considered the top defenseman of the 2026 Draft. And the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[222326,18422,1989,831,297225,297226,214540,102326,398,385,835,6531,99,121516,292203],"class_list":["post-683089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-2026-draft","tag-carey-price","tag-chl","tag-featured","tag-fort-saskatchewan","tag-goalie","tag-keaton-verhoeff","tag-mask","tag-ncaa","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sjhn","tag-sports","tag-thomas-harley","tag-university-of-north-dakota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683089","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=683089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}