The San Jose Sharks have signed a trio of free agents.<\/p>\n
The Sharks have added defenseman John Klingberg, and forwards Adam Gaudette and Philipp Kurashev.<\/p>\n
Klingberg, 32, is a right-handed defenseman who should help the San Jose Sharks\u2019 power play.<\/p>\n
The Sharks inked him to a one-year, $4 million contract.<\/p>\n
In his prime, the Swede was one of most dangerous offensive blueliners in the NHL , named to the All-Rookie Team in 2015 and the All-Star Team in 2018 with the Dallas Stars. He was sixth for the Norris Trophy twice, in 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n
Klingberg, however, was hampered by hip injuries recently, suiting up in just 25 games over parts of the last two seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers. He did have a solid playoffs, playing 19 games and averaging over 19 minutes a night in the Oilers\u2019 run to the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n
Klingberg may not be Klingberg anymore, but if he stays healthy, no doubt that he can help the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
Gaudette, 28, is a bottom-six center-winger with a good-enough shot to help on the power play.<\/p>\n
The Sharks inked him to a two-year, $4 million contract ($2 million AAV).<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-1 forward scored a career-high 19 goals with the Ottawa Senators last year, averaging 10:25 a night.<\/p>\n
Kurashev, 25, is a center-winger who\u2019s trying to bounce back after a tough season with the Chicago Blackhawks.<\/p>\n
The San Jose Sharks signed him to a one-year, $1.2 million pact.<\/p>\n
After a breakout 2023-24 campaign, when Kurashev dropped 18 goals and 54 points in 19:01 a night, the 6-foot-0 Swiss forward couldn\u2019t find his footing the next year, adding just seven goals and 14 points, while averaging just 13:43 a night.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a solid reclamation project for the Sharks.<\/p>\n
The San Jose Sharks also traded for goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> and extended star young winger William Eklund<\/a> in Day 1 of free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks have signed a trio of free agents. The Sharks have added defenseman John Klingberg,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[27074,1322,20726,27075,293,27076,1328,62,27077,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-32221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-adam-gaudette","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-free-agents","11":"tag-john-klingberg","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-philipp-kurashev","14":"tag-san-jose-sharks","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufa","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114782916847716155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}