{"id":522692,"date":"2026-01-17T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:53:12","slug":"hurricanes-acquire-defenseman-kyle-masters-from-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522692\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes acquire defenseman Kyle Masters from Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 16, 2026, 02:33 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> acquired minor league defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5173484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Masters<\/a> and a fourth-round pick this year from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/sj\/san-jose-sharks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> for a fifth-round selection in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The teams made the move Friday.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose dealt Masters to clear a contract, allowing rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5291934\/michael-misa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Misa<\/a> to continue playing for the Sharks. Misa needed to be added to the roster to play in a 10th game and the Sharks had been at the limit of 50 contracts before the trade.<\/p>\n<p>Masters, 22, who has not played in the NHL, was drafted in the fourth round by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-wild\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> in 2021. He has 35 career points in 69 games in the East Coast Hockey League and six points in 35 American Hockey League Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 16, 2026, 02:33 PM ET RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212; The Carolina Hurricanes acquired minor league defenseman Kyle Masters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":522693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-522692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115910306126499101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522692","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=522692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}